1. Patent für Ingame-Usertipps via LIVE gesichtet - AreaGames 5 hours ago   permalink

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2. Apple Files Motion to Dismiss Psystar's Florida Case; Alternatively to Transfer Case to California 4 hours ago   permalink

Groklaw

Apple has filed a motion to dismiss Psystar's litigation in Florida, or in the alternative to transfer it to the Northern District of California, where its so-far successful litigation against Psystar is taking place and consolidate it there. It requests a 30-minute hearing on its motion. You'll recall that Apple told the California court that it ...

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Richard / Ballot Access News New California Term Limits Initiative Launched   —  On November 25, California elections officials announced that an initiative to modify California’s legislative term limits law is cleared for circulation. It would not apply to any legislators now in office. It would provide that no future legislator could serve more than 12 years in the legislature. However, all 12 years could [...]

3. Fla. High Court Permanently Disbars Disgraced Attorney 5 hours ago   permalink

Law.com

The law career of disgraced Florida attorney and fraud suspect Scott Rothstein is over. The Florida Supreme Court disbarred Rothstein Wednesday at his request, a day after the governor suspended him from the 4th District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission. A four-paragraph order came in response to Rothstein's request for permanent ...

4. Lawyer for Prosecutor Seeks Supreme Court Review of Immunity Ruling 5 hours ago   permalink

Law.com

Federal prosecutor Daniel Zachem has a lot riding on a pro se civil suit against him that alleges he participated in a conspiracy to violate the rights of a Washington, D.C., grand juror. But the suit has far-reaching implications for all federal prosecutors, so Zachem's lawyer, Crowell & Moring partner Michael Martinez, wants the U.S. Supreme ...

5. How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims 6 hours ago   permalink

Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy

Today is Thanksgiving. And there is no better time to remember an underappreciated lesson of the original Thanksgiving: that the Pilgrims nearly starved to death because of collectivism and eventually saved themselves by adopting a system of private property. Economist Benjamin Powell tells the story in here: Many people believe that after [...]

6. Comes Exhibit 2151 - Gates: "I have decided we should not publish these extensions." 8 hours ago   permalink

Groklaw

Here's another relevant exhibit, Exhibit 2151 [PDF] from the collection of exhibits in the Comes v. Microsoft case, an email from Bill Gates, the subject was "Shell plans - iShellBrowser", dated October 3, 1994, to Bill Bass, Bob Muglia et al. In connection with iShellBrowswer, Gates writes: I have decided that we should not publish these ...

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7. Say Goodbye to Big-Screen TVs 8 hours ago   permalink

Www.city-journal.org

Last week, the California Energy Commission approved a groundbreaking series of efficiency standards for televisions, the first time government at any level in the United States has meddled in the details of how our boob tubes are made. The new rules set maximum power-consumption standards for TVs of up to 58 inches, starting in 2011 and becoming ...

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Walter Olson / PointOfLaw Forum :   "Say Goodbye to Big-Screen TVs"

8. More on Amicus Briefs, With a Question 9 hours ago   permalink

Paul Horwitz / PrawfsBlawg

Will beat me to the punch. I think Orin raises some interesting points in his discussion at VC, especially in his responses to commenters. But I am not sure that the concerns he raises are ultimately all that great. I have three general points, and a question for Orin. First, it seems to me that amicus briefs filed by members of Congress -- and ...

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Will Baude / PrawfsBlawg Amicus Briefs and the Separation of Powers   —  Orin Kerr recently wrote a blog post criticizing Congressional amicus briefs that attempt to influence the outcome of cases: [T]he filing of briefs to try to influence individual cases seems to me to enter inappropriately into the core of the judicial process. Deciding cases isn’t Congress’s job, and it’s unseemly and inappropriate for ...

9. Joan Biskupic's American Original 12 hours ago   permalink

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In Joan Biskupic's new biography of Antonin Scalia, American Original, the justice wears a wreath of superlatives. He is the most quoted member of the Supreme Court and the one scholars write about most. He is the justice who writes the most concurrences—separate opinions that accept the holding of a majority opinion but usually part company ...

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How Appealing :   "The Alienator: Making sense of Justice Scalia's personality--and his theory."

10. A Great Line 13 hours ago   permalink

Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy

From an opinion by the Supreme Court of Wyoming, describing a drunken party that led to a fight (with the great sentence in bold): On June 12, 1996, at about 10:00 or 11:00 a.m., Duckett went to the home of Mary Carlson bearing his guitar and a 12-pack of beer. Duckett, Carlson, and [...]

11. Two Libertarians Elected in Partisan Races in Pennsylvania Outpolled All Their Major Party Opponents 17 hours ago   permalink

Richard / Ballot Access News

Although it had already been reported that the Libertarian Party won ten partisan elections in Pennsylvania on November 3, 2009, it had not been previously reported that two of the wins were in a contest in which the Libertarians had ballot-listed major party opponents. Many minor party victories in partisan races in Pennsylvania occur [...]

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Richard / Ballot Access News Constitution Party Petition in Wyoming Is One-Third Complete   —  Wyoming has very difficult ballot access for both new parties and independent candidates. The only party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, that has appeared on the Wyoming ballot since 2001 has been the Libertarian Party. The Constitution Party is working on an all-volunteer petition drive to obtain the 4,988 valid signatures [...]

12. Newsflash: Marriage Illegal in Texas! 16 hours ago   permalink

Bill Araiza / PrawfsBlawg

So it (possibly) appears, according to this news report. Of course this interpretation of the law won't stick. But it does seem a fairly extreme example of sloppy drafting; even a quick glance at the offending provision (quoted in the article) reveals an easy fix. (Note: I have not looked at the full piece of legislation, so maybe the fix is ...

13. Wayne Gray's Motion to Lift Stay is Denied. And How. 17 hours ago   permalink

Groklaw

Wayne Gray's motion to lift the stay [PDF]in the SCO bankruptcy has been denied. If you are new, here's the report from the hearing about it, and for details on the dispute here's more . Gray is not entitled to the relief he seeks, Judge Kevin Gross has ruled: Wayne R. Gray ("Mr. Gray" or "Movant") has moved to lift the automatic stay pursuant to ...

14. Rasmussen Reports Conducts 2012 Poll Including Lou Dobbs as an Independent 18 hours ago   permalink

Richard / Ballot Access News

Rasmussen Reports released this poll on November 25, asking about a 2012 presidential line-up that includes Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Lou Dobbs as an independent. It shows 42% for Obama, 34% for Romney, 14% for Dobbs, and 11% don’t know or other.

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15. Beyond the Underground 18 hours ago   permalink

Evan Schaeffer / Beyond the Underground

WHY PUBLISH? . . . Jorge Luis Borges, who claimed everything he published was a "rough draft," explained why people publish books (or stories, or essays, or virtually any text), in an interview in which he recalled a conversation with...

16. Trouble is Brewing for Obama, Democrats in 2010 18 hours ago   permalink

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The news media's mad dash to highlight the inflammatory passages of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, largely misses the point. Too much attention has been paid to her continuing feud with Republican strategists from last year's campaign and her gripes about being mistreated by the media as the GOP vice presidential nominee. All that has ...

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Richard / Ballot Access News :   U.S. News & World Report Suggests Strong Independent Candidates Seem Likely

17. That Holiday Spirit 20 hours ago   permalink

Jonathan Siegel / PrawfsBlawg

With the holiday season officially kicking off tomorrow, an interesting decision arrives from the Third Circuit. The question: can a school district adopt a policy forbidding religious music in holiday celebrations, including school concerts? The South Orange-Maplewood school district in New Jersey adopted such a policy in an effort to achieve ...

18. Thanksgiving Blogging Break 20 hours ago   permalink

Rick Hasen / Election Law

Back on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving to my readers and their families!...

19. "Louisiana Redistricting: An Ugly Post-Katrina Partisan Mess " 20 hours ago   permalink

Rick Hasen / Election Law

The Rose Report gives this very detailed analysis....

20. Billy Bragg on Music and Copyright 1 day ago   permalink

Michael Geist / Michael Geist Blog

Billy Bragg and Charlie Angus hosted a press conference last week that included Safwan Javed of Wide Mouth Mason (and the Canadian Music Creators Coalition) and Don Quarles of the Songwriters Association of Canada. The event attracted some media attention and a video of the event has now been posted online .