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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 …

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…

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 potent…

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 i…

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 …

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 arre…

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 …

'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 subjec…

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 …

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 arbit…

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 s…

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 who…

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 busin…

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 fidu…

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 pa…

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 …

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 you…

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, th…

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 id…

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 tr…

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 g…