Category Archives: litigation

brevity

March 29, 2007 – 4:31 am

Shortest decision ever! here it is in full:
Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2007
Opinion filed February 28, 2007.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D06-2000
Lower Tribunal No. 99-20601
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Albert Russell Francis,
Petitioner,
vs.
The State of Florida,
Respondent.
An case of Original Jurisdiction – Ineffective Assistance of Appellate
Counsel.
Albert Russell Francis, in proper person.
Bill McCollum, […]

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Da Vinci - Da Bomb

March 28, 2007 – 10:53 am

In what is the least unexpected decision of the year the Court of appeal dismissed the appeal- Dan Brown didn’t infringe copyright. Details to follow.
IPKat points to the words of Mummery LJ and what is a useful kick in the pants to litigators: the assessment needs to be an holistic one. Looking at isolated […]

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Apple and Cisco: while I was out …

March 12, 2007 – 6:13 pm

Apple and Crisco swear blind it was all a misunderstanding.

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Apple and Apple settle

February 5, 2007 – 6:03 pm

Apple Core have, it seems, settled with Apple Computers on their trademark dispute. From the outside it looks like Apple Computers got the upper hand: the mood music is that this unfortunate misunderstanding is all finally fully settled and everyone loves each just as they all did all along. Honest.

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Unsettling settlement agreements - Court of Appeal plays killjoy

February 1, 2007 – 7:31 pm

Impact have spotted an interesting judgment relating to settlement agreements that appears to be reported only on Lawtel and not in any of the journals yet. That’s unfortunate because it is confirms what most of us thought was the likeliest result, but which had not been decided by any higher court: breach of a settlement […]

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Senior Police Officer gets the law wrong

December 31, 2006 – 3:00 pm

Ruthie regularly listens to the Today programme on Radio 4. Not because she is a particular fan, but the hectoring style of interviewing is guaranteed to irritate Ruthie out of her torpor at 06.30 in a way that Chris Moyles never could. Occasionally the programme is also entertaining and informative
The programme is running an online […]

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the Internet and paralegality

November 15, 2006 – 10:09 pm

Geeklawyer stumbled across a rather dull story about eBay and its rules of conduct in relation to merchants. In summary if you do business on eBay you agree to lots of stuff. The stuff includes VeRO which is designed to assert the rights of an intellectual property owner against intruders. Thus if someone on eBay […]

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I meant to say this. I really really did.

October 23, 2006 – 5:53 pm

You know how it is. Don’t you? Someone is rude to you. And despite a vocabulary of Alexandrian proportions and a wit to dwarf that of Oscar Wilde on top form you splutter & stutter; and after not one but both neurons have risen from their torpor at the desperate urging of your ego and […]

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why does everyone else get the rich stupid punter?

August 25, 2006 – 9:47 pm

Ruinair is a bit pissed off over the latest government “lets-scare-the-living-fuck-out-of-everyone-over-terrorism-so-we-can-get-more-powers” stunt. Neo-Labour decided it would be good to make everyone undergo body-cavity searches and stop anyone bringing anything on to the plane as hand luggage stuff larger than a packet of cigarettes. Pointless ineffective and designed just for headlines - and only when the […]

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Bastard opponents

August 8, 2006 – 7:20 pm

Honest. No sooner does Geeklawyer blog that he’s going on holiday than the git opposing him in a current bit of litigation chooses now to write a long letter detailing all sorts of stuff he has to deal with immediately. Just when he was winding down. Now you write. Were Geeklawyer not anonymous he’d assume […]

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