The Plano store was the first one in Texas and 3rd one overall.
Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
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Re: Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
#172Having recently watched The Patent Scam, I wish more companies would follow suit here and exit EDOT, maybe then people would wake up and demand that these corrupt judges are removed from the bench! edit: correction made per child comment.
The only people who can vote federal judges off the bench are 67 senators.
Federal judges are nominated by the President and confirmed (majority) by the Senate. Technically judges serve during Good Behavior, Article III, but that's been interpreted as lifetime. Removal is by impeachment in the House (majority) followed by conviction (two thirds) in the Senate.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Offhand accusations of extremely serious charges like corruption breed lazy cynicism. It's not only fair but a good idea to ask people to support their claims: a little bit of intellectual rigor could make the difference between a valuable forum and an echo chamber where _everyone knows_ that outgroup x is just _so corrupt_. It's really not good to say "just go and google it and you'll see how right I am". Antivaxxer…
It's self-evident. To the extent a court is biased, it's corrupt. And if they weren't biased, they wouldn't be a nationally recognized haven for patent trolls, would they?
Having local rules that expedite patent cases isn’t evidence of bias. It’s evidence of efficiency.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
While this is true, also remember how powerful the US supreme court is. Due to a combination of common law (binding precedent) and an old, difficult to change, ambiguous constitution, the US Supreme Court is arguably even more powerful than the president.
> While this is true, also remember how powerful the US supreme court is. Due to a combination of common law (binding precedent) and an old, difficult to change, ambiguous constitution, the US Supreme Court is arguably even more powerful than the president. To me, this is an amazing aspect of the American justice system. Nine individuals, chosen over a broad range of years, are the last bastion of hope in keeping the…
There are interesting parallels there to the House of Lords in the UK, which more often than not holds the government to account better than the Commons. It does seem that sometimes pure democracy needs tempering.
(Curiously, the House of Lords was the top court in the UK before the Supreme Court was created recently)
Re: Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
#175Good, I hope this draws the attention of voters in the district.
My employer (very large) was sued twice in this court. Both times by trolls. The lawyers basically described this judge as running a ‘cottage industry’ and were unwilling to even set foot in that courtroom.
The patents the lawsuits were based on were insane. One of them was on any image compression for medical images which was somehow granted in 2005 (that’s another problem). There was reams of prior art but of course we settled. I was very low on the totem pole of the company but it still pissed me off to no end.
Re: Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
#176Good, I hope this draws the attention of voters in the district. My employer (very large) was sued twice in this court. Both times by trolls. The lawyers basically described this judge as running a ‘cottage industry’ and were unwilling to even set foot in that courtroom. The patents the lawsuits were based on were insane. One of them was on any image compression for medical images which was somehow granted in 2005 (t…
> Good, I hope this draws the attention of voters in the district.
It's not an electoral district, but a judicial one, all of whose officials are Presidential appointees, not locally elected. There's a tradition (weaker in the last few decades, especially when the White House is in opposite hands from the Senate seats in the state) of consultation with the Senators of the state containing the district when appointing judges, but in large states (where judicial districts aren't the whole state, as is the case here since it's the Eastern District of Texas and not the [non-existent] plain unmodified District of Texas) that still doesn't provide a special role for “voters of the district” distinct from those of the whole containing state.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe something like Toki Pona? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
It seems close to my goals, but violates one of the main ones related to lowering the entry barrier. All the letter (and sounds) used NEED to be pronounced, the same way, for native speakers of English, French, Russian, Spanish, and also various major (eastern) Asian languages. That means that when an otherwise uneducated (in languages/reading the squiggly version of words from a dictionary) user in one of those lang…
Ever look at Esperanto? Every word is pronounced how it is spelled.
Re: Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
#178Nice now the judges and their sons who got bug fat checks have to face the truth finally: that they might have all the money but they still live in Eastern District of Texas that won't have an Apple store for them to spend their cash on.
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#179It seems quite reasonable for apple to avoid the renegade court. The court is known to intentionally violate the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to the benefit of patent holders.[1] You must seek permission from the renegade judge in order to file Summary Judgement. "A party may move for summary judgment" They may not move for summary judgement, because the judge denies this in this court. "The court should state on…
Maybe I'm just really dumb, but can't anyone sued in this court just appeal to a higher court that isn't run by renegade turds?
> Maybe I'm just really dumb, but can't anyone sued in this court just appeal to a higher court that isn't run by renegade turds?
Only after the expense of trial (and some people see the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals, as being run by renegades, too), and the appeals process is deferential to the trial court in a number of ways, so this is time consuming, expensive, and still doesn't undo completely any tilt from the trial court.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There are no other upscale malls in the north Dallas region beyond those three Well, there's also NorthPark, but I believe that already has an Apple Store. And I wouldn't really call Stonebriar "upscale". It's basically the only non-upscale mall here that isn't dead or dying.
> Well, there's also NorthPark Not what I'd consider the north Dallas region. I mean "upscale" in mall-relative terms which is basically just not dead or dying.
Eh, anything that's north of Loop 12 and west of 75 (and east of some nebulous line west of Inwood) is "North Dallas". NorthPark barely qualifies, since it's on the northwest corner of Loop 12 and 75.
But it's all moot because I checked, and Apple already has a store at NorthPark.