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<title><![CDATA[Kommentar: Zentrale verlegen reicht nicht aus - Hamburger Abendblatt]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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 These headlines do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the patent law firm v. Kreisler Selting Werner. Please also review the disclaimer 
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<title><![CDATA[Cahn Objects to Wayne Gray's Motion to Lift Stay]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:29:31 -0500</pubDate>
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 SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn has filed an objection to the Wayne Gray motion to lift the stay. Cahn says that to characterize the Wayne Gray motion as "highly irregular" would be "an understatement". 
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<title><![CDATA[Moritz College of Law]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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 November 17, 2009 | Saxbe Auditorium 
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<author><![CDATA[
 David Friedman 
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<title><![CDATA[Models for Review Sessions]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-16T00:59:33-05:00</pubDate>
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 It's that time of year. I have considered the following options for conducting review sessions for the end of the semester for my students and identified potential "Pros and Cons." The options are not mutually exclusive. (Some are.) 1. Hold NO review session. Pros: No time investment. Avoids inadvertent leakage of exam material. Time can be used  ... 
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<author><![CDATA[
 John Elwood 
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<title><![CDATA[The Perfect Lawyer — Herbert J. “Jack” Miller, 1924–2009]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 Herbert J. “Jack” Miller, the founder of my old firm (the much mourned Miller Cassidy Larroca &#38; Lewin) died Saturday. He was 85. Jack had a career full of highlights any one of which would have been the capstone to a successful lawyer’s career: service as a Republican as head of the Criminal Division [...] 
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 David Kopel 
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<title><![CDATA[Bleg on criminal prosecution of people for transient possession of illegal objects they want to give to the police]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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 In a recent case in Surrey, England, a man found a black bag in his garden one evening. He looked into the bag, and found that it contained a shotgun. He took the shotgun into his home, and the next day he called the police, and brought the shotgun to the police station. He was [...] 
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<title><![CDATA[State competition for hedge funds]]></title>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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 Congress is reportedly considering legislation that would let states regulate investment advisors, including hedge funds, which manage less than $100 million. This would shift some funds from SEC regulation and require state registration of some previously unregulated funds. 
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 White Collar Crime Prof Blogger 
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<title><![CDATA[Finding TARP]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-16T00:02:00-05:00</pubDate>
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 The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) emphasizes transparency, but it did take me some time to find the website that told me what was going on in this office. It is easy... 
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<author><![CDATA[
 Dennis Crouch 
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<title><![CDATA[A Brief Defense of the Written Description Requirement]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-15T21:57:16-05:00</pubDate>
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  by Michael Risch The Federal Circuit’s upcoming consideration of Ariad v. Lilly has generated a fair amount of buzz among those who follow patent policy. The dispute arises from the interpretation of 35 U.S.C. 112 ¶ 1, which states in relevant part: The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[The Dying Wife by Evan Schaeffer]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-15T21:57:16-05:00</pubDate>
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 The dying wife confessed to her husband that she'd always known about his secret life but hadn't loved him enough to care. Sensing a bluff, the husband denied everything. Only later did he realize his mistake: his wife, now gone, had had secrets too, and these might haunt him forever. 
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 Richard 
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Post Feature Story on How to Build a County Unit of a Political Party]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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 The November 15 Washington Post has this interesting, lengthy article on how one dedicated activist built up the county unit of one political party in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The article happens to be about the Republican Party, but it applies equally to all political parties, large and small. Thanks to Henry Hirose [...] 
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<author><![CDATA[
 Marc DeGirolami 
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<title><![CDATA[Caperton Capering]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-15T13:28:14-05:00</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
 Bill A's post below alerted me to the final resolution of this case -- a 4-1 vote exactly the same way that the (now) recused judge voted the first time around. In the Supreme Court case, a 5-4 decision that seems to break down along the usual ideological fault lines (with Justice Kennedy writing for the majority), the Court held that the due  ... 
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<author><![CDATA[
 Edward 
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<title><![CDATA[Alabama: Packard proposes amendments to election laws]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-15T10:09:30-06:00</pubDate>
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 Ed Packard, supervisor of voter registration for the State of Alabama, suggests several amendments to the State's election laws regarding emergency balloting procedures, changed voter ID procedures for absentee voters, and confidentiality of voter information. -- Read the whole piece... 
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 Richard 
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<title><![CDATA[America Votes 28 Is Now In Print]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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 Ever since 1956, the election returns book series called America Votes has been published after each presidential election and each midterm election. Congressional Quarterly, the publisher, has just released America Votes 28, which covers all federal elections, plus gubernatorial elections, occurring in 2008 and 2007. This volume has 532 pages.  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Backers Fear Opportunities to Reshape Judiciary Are Slipping Away]]></title>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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 WASHINGTON &#151; President Obama has sent the Senate far fewer judicial nominations than former President George W. Bush did in his first 10 months in office, deflating the hopes of liberals that the White House would move quickly to reshape the federal judiciary after eight years of Republican appointments. 
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<author><![CDATA[
 Walter Olson 
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<title><![CDATA[Prairie dog bite: $328,370]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-15T00:04:16-05:00</pubDate>
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 And other contributors to the $2.78 million that Essex County, N.J. has budgeted in 2009 for legal claims settlement, up from $807,652 in 2000 [Philip Read, Star-Ledger via NJLRA]... 
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