Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Credit card arbitration: banks are conspiring against you
That the major credit card issuing banks are conspiring against consumers to force them into mandatory arbitration should come as no surprise to anybody. Why wouldn’t they force people into a system so stacked in favor of the credit card companies that the companies win all but 0.16% of the time. (For the math [...]
The Supreme Court: reality v. fiction
I don’t watch legal shows on TV, because they are so far from reality that they make me crazy, but this clip from Boston Legal, is worth watching. It is of course fictional, but as a comment on the reality of the Court it is the cold hard truth, more real than the fictions [...]
BoingBoing: ” Supreme Court makes it harder to be patent predator”
Link to blog post.
Link to opinion.
Writup from blogger and BoingBoing reader Glenn Fleishmann:
The Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that injunctions shouldn’t be rubberstamped for patent cases. They specifically singled out business-method patents that are litigated by those who have no stake in producing the product or offering the service; i.e., patent trolls. (There are [...]
