Feel free to grab the free PDF here!https://t.co/2QbKL8cjNe pic.twitter.com/NBhHkwFnaF
— Josh Clark (@tinywoodsman) May 24, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Thrawn RPG Sourcebook available for download
Firing of two University of Cincinnati baseball staff members reportedly related to sports gambling
Supposedly, the two staff members didn't gamble, but had undisclosed conversations with a parent who was gambling.
Philadelphia charter school allegedly manipulated its admission lottery to exclude entire zip codes
Inquirer:
It previously was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education....The lottery particularly disadvantaged Black residents.
Today's funny posts
ebay has itNot sure I've seen a more sinister looking cookbook title and cover pic.twitter.com/dxfSIUHAZs
— Steven Sheil (@SSheil) April 17, 2023
Gorgeous photo of the Japanese volcanic island of Nishinoshima
Tiny volcanic islands mucking up the water look cool from space. https://t.co/L6Z3SeyuOg pic.twitter.com/eBZgz2bx2k
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 13, 2023
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
To go after patent trolls, states are passing laws requiring disclosure of ligation financing agreements
Bloomberg on rules designed to prevent secretive litigation financing:
Louisiana is advancing legislation to require disclosure of litigation finance agreements, making it the latest in a string of states to clamp down on the lawsuit funding tool.
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The legislation underscores how states are pushing to restrict the opaque litigation finance industry that topped $13 billion in assets under management last year. Wisconsin and New Jersey already require disclosure, and US District Judge Colm F. Connolly in Delaware has required it for certain patent cases in his courtroom.
Matt Levine wrote about the rule in Delware exposing a particular patent troll in today's newsletter:
The downside of scale in litigation is that, if you are constantly suing everyone in the world for infringing on your portfolio of patents, people are going to start rolling their eyes when they see your lawsuits. “These guys again,” they will say. “Patent trolls,” they will say.
But you can sell your patents to somebody else. You can, for instance, find some guy, and give him one of your patents, and then pay for him to sue people who make things that allegedly infringe on the patents, and sign an agreement with him where he’ll give you most of the money if he wins and just keep a little tip for himself for letting you use his name. And then when he sues, he doesn’t have a long history of patent litigation, and maybe people won’t roll their eyes at him.
Or maybe they will.
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