I want to praise Jeremy Piven. That’s a risky thing to do, I know. Piven is one of Those Men. One of those big entertainment figures who has fingers pointed at him. He has joined Harvey Weinstein, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a cynical attempt to graft a concept from criminal law—where the government faces a high burden before it can convict and ...
Brian Coggio, James Huguenin-Love Ph.D. The presumption of prosecution history estoppel is difficult to overcome. This presumption typically arises when a claim is rejected over the prior art and is ...
More than a century ago, the Supreme Court described a principle that it called “undoubted, axiomatic and elementary.” It is, the Court said, “unquestioned in the textbooks” and can be traced all the ...
We continue to get lots of e-mail from people asking the following question: What happened to the presumption of innocence? From Scott Peterson to Michael Jackson, even to Saddam Hussein, many of you ...
“But increasingly, courts are sealing documents in run-of-the-mill cases where the parties simply prefer to keep things under wraps.” From Le v. Exeter Finance Corp., decided Friday by the Fifth ...
In my late 40s I applied for a job as a journalist on a newspaper. During the interview the editor said: “I presume you were once a priest”. I immediately replied that it was dangerous to “presume” ...