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by grellas 6y ago
After being one of the top-rated commenters on HN for some years, I have not commented in a long while. For what it is worth, here is my two cents on a topic - a wealth tax - that may seem on the surface to be benign but that is in fact jus
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by grellas 7y ago
Here we go - the insanely maximalist interpretation of copyright law by the Federal Circuit, with its concomitant ludicrously restrictive idea of fair use, now goes to the Supremes. The DoJ had actually argued against the idea of the High C
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Supreme Court to Consider Google Appeal of Oracle Win in Copyright Case(wsj.com)
11 points by grellas 7y ago|2 comments
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by grellas 7y ago
This may seem to be on its face another dull instance of people haggling over fine points in the esoteric field of defining patentable subject matter. But it is not. It is a potentially huge development and not a good one for tech startup
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The Orwellian Attack on Section 101(spectator.org)
4 points by grellas 7y ago|2 comments
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by grellas 7y ago
Excellent additions - thanks for supplementing/clarifying! Another note or two: 1. Damages might be reduced on appeal but, if not, this will really sting for Oberlin. Why? 2. Its insurer apparently is denying coverage because the wrong
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by grellas 7y ago
A bit more factual context: 1. The student "protests" erupted the day after the 2016 election results came in, with a corresponding politically inflammatory element at work in the background. 2. The underlying incident involved an
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Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way(thehill.com)
242 points by grellas 7y ago|180 comments
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by grellas 7y ago
This site has followed the case closely and goes through a lot of the evidence in the linked items. In general, the defendants appeared to go over a line by asserting that the arrest of a shoplifter was based on racial profiling when there
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by grellas 7y ago
A potentially explosive case in which protests/boycotts by college students/administrators based on claims of alleged racial profiling by a local business appear to have backfired in a big way - at least in the first big legal pha
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Jury Awards Gibson's Bakery $11M Against Oberlin College(legalinsurrection.com)
5 points by grellas 7y ago|3 comments
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by grellas 7y ago
'Big Tech', unlike Telecom, has made itself friendless, having alienated pretty much everybody along the political spectrum, and that is a dangerous place to me with a field subject to such legal vagaries as antitrust law is. I am
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by grellas 7y ago
No tears will be shed, I am sure, if Google has to pay some billions to fatten the already fat pockets of Oracle but the decision by the Federal Circuit being appealed here made a hash out of key legal foundational items that facilitate the
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by grellas 8y ago
When a lot of money is at stake, it is no surprise that litigants abuse the legal system. Uber is contractually required to pay the up-front arbitration fees so that the JAMS arbitrations can move forward. I super-slow-walks the process. Wh
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by grellas 8y ago
Non-competes under U.S. law are neither all good nor all bad. They have their legitimate uses but these are the narrow cases and not the norm. For example, you sell a business to someone who pays you a big premium for your goodwill value us
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by grellas 8y ago
The difference between the ancient way of working a lifetime for a salary, perks and a gold watch on retirement and the new one of building a breakout company in tech lies in a wholly changed business environment by which super-talented fou
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by grellas 8y ago
This article describes what is essentially a scam operation, dressed up in legal garb, aimed at exploiting desperate borrowers looking for short-term funds to help fund their business operations. No one signs up to a loan charging 350% annu
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by grellas 8y ago
Under modern corporate law, shareholders are the owners of the entity and its assets (operating businesses) and the ultimate governing role falls to a board of directors whose fiduciary duty is to act for the best interests of the company a
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by grellas 8y ago
On July 1, the minimum wage in San Francisco will hit $15 an hour, following incremental raises from $10.74 in 2014. The city also requires employers with at least 20 workers to pay health care costs beyond the mandates of the Affordable C
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by grellas 8y ago
The principle that a central authority gets to decree how we live, eat, breath, and think is inherently dangerous, especially when it comes with no evident limits. This decree, of course, does not do all that but instead covers a narrow cla
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by grellas 8y ago
To all startup founders: if you think that any part of this mix of ethical infighting and jockeying for position among employees will be good for your venture, think again - do your business honestly and with integrity and focus single-mind
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by grellas 8y ago
It may sound quaint to say, but principled application of the law is vital to a free society. Ultimately, law is about power. Under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the federal government is one of limited powers, meaning (at
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by grellas 8y ago
With this case, the Supreme Court continues its trend of gradually scaling back on the idea that patents can be freely and loosely granted to such a bilious degree that the very idea of what a legitimate patent is supposed to do (promote th
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by grellas 8y ago
The basic law relating to online terms and conditions has been stable for some years now and should remain so. It certainly is not headed for a "reckoning." When private parties transact business in a free society, the law of cont
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by grellas 8y ago
Where does one draw a line these days among the personal, the moral, the legal, and the political? The military application in question is legal and is approved by a duly elected government that supports it politically. In earlier days, emp
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by grellas 8y ago
Appellate courts do not lightly overturn jury verdicts using highly fact-specific reviews of evidence. There is a reason they call a jury a "trier of fact". There is a reason for this: if it were the rule that an appellate court c
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Trade Secrets and Theatrics: Inside the Waymo V. Uber Courtroom(wsj.com)
1 points by grellas 9y ago|0 comments
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The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon(wsj.com)
2 points by grellas 9y ago|1 comments
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The Downside of Full Pay Transparency(wsj.com)
148 points by grellas 9y ago|209 comments
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by grellas 9y ago
It is entirely superficial to cast this fight as one between good and evil. As much as anything, it was about proper process. Legislative, executive, judicial - those are the three branches under the Constitution that are supposed to check

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