January2016
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IP Flow Links – VirnetX Seeks $532M From Apple In Patent Infringement Retrial
Jan 30, 2016(Comments: 0)Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Hi folks, here is your weekly IP news round up: VirnetX is seeking $532 million in damages from Apple in their patent infringement retrial. In 2012, VirnetX settled the initial suit... -
Fault Lines Links – New Trial Ordered In Wrongful Death Suit of Juventino Hernandez By NM Cops
Jan 29, 2016(Comments: 0)Jan. 29, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Morning people, here’s what we’re watching: A new civil trial stemming from the death of Juvenito Hernandez will go ahead against the city of Clovis, NM and three of its police officers.... -
Trending: Cops Getting Indicted and Their Shocked Reactions
Jan 29, 2016(Comments: 3)Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Waller County, Texas Grand Jury indicted Officer Michael Kelley for tasing a Prairie View City Council member. Kelley was charged with Official Oppression, and even if he is acquitted... -
262,000 Reasons Taxpayers Should Quit Letting Cops Be Assholes
Jan 29, 2016(Comments: 2)Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Cops shoot stuff. All kinds of stuff. Grown-ups, kids, dogs, random bodies of water. Whatever. They have guns and stuff is there. That stuff should be shot. Because the people... -
There’s No Trial Tax; There’s A Plea Discount
Jan 29, 2016(Comments: 17)Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The supposed horror of the so-called “trial tax” has become the hot topic (again). The idea is that defendants who insist on a trial end up with higher sentences than... -
The New Dropsy, Chicago’s Fragile Cameras
Jan 29, 2016(Comments: 1)Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Chicago is feeling a little sheepish about its cop murdering Laquan McDonald, then fighting disclosure of the crime and encouraging perjury from officers on the scene. It even offered to... -
The Questionable Legality of Sports Fights
Jan 28, 2016(Comments: 7)Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — It is a memory seared into the minds of many a baseball fan. In the lengthy list of highlights for the storied career of arguably baseball’s best pitcher ever, this... -
Dean Strang Proved Me Wrong
Jan 28, 2016(Comments: 15)Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The last time I wrote on the Netflix docudrama, “Making a Murderer,” I took the stance nothing good would come of it. Today I proudly eat my slice of humble... -
Parenting by Police Intervention
Jan 28, 2016(Comments: 4)Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Ronald Jackson and Michelle Steppe have a daughter together, although they had never been married. That daughter lived with Michelle and for the first years of her life, during which... -
Whipsawed & Whiplash – A Month In The Life (And Death) Of The Death Penalty
Jan 28, 2016(Comments: 2)Jan. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — We’re about a month into the New Year now, and except for rulings on emergency matters, the Supreme Court is done until well into February. I’ve already done a couple...