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Mass Moca Loses to Büchel Under VARA

March 10, 2010
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Nice post title, eh? Mass MoCA is the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation a contemporary art museum in North Adams, MA. Christoph Büchell is a Swiss “installation artist.” Think very large, very avant-garde. The New York Times describes his work “dense, fraught creations, which compress masses of material and objects into historically charged labyrinthine environments through which viewers walk, climb and crawl.” Wow. Sounds just right for good old, left-leaning western Mass. Not.

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Judge Young, Bulger/Flemmi and "The Government – Our Government"

February 2, 2010
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U.S. Federal District Court Judge William Young has issued a lengthy decision, awarding $2.7 million in damages to the estates of three people murdered by James J. Bulger, Stephen J. Flemmi, and their associates.  Judge Young describes the story as “harrowing,” which may be an understatement. The key defendant in this case is the U.S.

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The Boston Area Technology Sector is a Lot Like Silicon Valley/Santa Clara County …. Not.

January 22, 2010
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A table from Branko Gerovac’s website, Empirical Reality compares the technology areas of Massachusetts and Silicon Valley The two areas are far more alike, on the statistical level, than I had realized.

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If the Feds Oppose Him, Tennenbaum (and Nesson) Must be Right! – Joel Fights Back

January 20, 2010
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Joel’s last chance before Massachusetts Federal District Court Judge Gertner (“Joel Fights Back”) is his post-judgment motion to set aside or reduce the damages award against him on the grounds that the judgment is unconstitutional – after all, what government would punish a student to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars for a

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BLS Discovery Pilot Project to Take on Electronic Discovery

December 8, 2009

Guest post by Gesmer Updegrove attorney Nancy Cremins. ______________________________ On December 1, 2009, the Massachusetts Superior Court announced the implementation of a Discovery Pilot Project in the Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session (BLS). A link to the press release announcement is here, and the text of the Project here. The BLS Discovery Pilot Project will

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Westlaw, Lexis, Announce That They are Yielding to Google Scholar, Terminating Legal Search Service Effective Immediately

November 30, 2009

Just kidding, but Columbia Law School’s Altlaw, which I’ve used off and on, really is shutting down: Nov. 19, 2009.  Earlier this week, Google announced the addition of legal cases to Google Scholar. It’s good, very good. But you don’t have to take our word for it: try it out yourself. Everything we have done

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Aiding and Abetting Prostitution? Wa?! I'm an Internet Executive – I Sure Hope My Mom Doesn't Read That!

May 21, 2009

“We opened an investigation at 5:01 on Friday, as promised. . . . We are preparing for a prosecution. We are investigating. We are moving forward. . . . . The #1 defendant is Mr. Jim Buckmaster, who is the man in charge of Craigslist.. . . . Craigslist is a big promoter and facilitator

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Charlie Nesson on Second Life

May 1, 2009

Now that Prof. Charlie Nesson has grabbed a lot of attention with his defense in the RIAA v. Tenenbaum case, it may be worth recalling this video, which was posted on YouTube in August 2006. Share This:TwitterFacebookStumbleUponDiggDelicious

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John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder of EFF, Poet, Musician, Lyricist for the Dead, Retired Wyoming Cattle Rancher and Public Intellectual . . .

April 11, 2009

has filed a most unusual “expert witness report” in the Tenenbaum case.  This will surely raise some novel admissibility issues under Daubert/FRE 702 standards.  And that, constant readers, is the understatement of the day.  More surprises to come from the Nesson/HLS defense team, I have no doubt. Share This:TwitterFacebookStumbleUponDiggDelicious

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