Legal System
“Human Rights” as Property Rights
Not only are there no human rights which are not also property rights, but the former rights lose their absoluteness and clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when property rights are not used as the standard.
Why Economists Tend to Oppose Gun Control Laws
However horrendous we might find the mass shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and other places, the fact is that when disaffected people start planning mass mayhem, the lack of a gun will not stop them.
Patent Law: Baby Steps--Update
As noted in my previous post, the case KSR International v.
Guantanamo: A Long Train of Congressional, Executive, and Now, Judicial Abuses
American citizens can now be arrested by the federal government, held indefinitely without trial, questioned under standards we would not allow for our own soldiers if captured by other nations or subordinates of those nations, and never have a hearing to find out the evidence being presented against them. This is shameful and stunning, and is all derived from a legislative branch that is unwilling to do what the Constitution allows it to do: declare war.
Vonage spared—for now
I guess we should be grateful that the federal government has magnanimously
The Chilling Effect on Patent Extortion—horrors!
This client alert explains some recent changes in US patent l