I have been browsing the various ‘factcheck’ sites that analyze what politicians say. The two largest seem to be Politifact.com, which is a project of the Tampa Bay Times, and FactCheck.org, which is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
FactCheck took an interesting approach with a comment made by Jeb Bush, who
FactCheck’s Headline is: Clinton Misuses Stat on CEO Pay.
Clinton made two statements: ““There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the American worker” and “The average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes.” The Washington Post, when critiquing the statement, noted that Clinton was speaking extemporaneously, but
From Politifact article on Ben Carson:
In response to the assertion that Carson has no political experience, he responded on Facebook:
‘”You are absolutely right — I have no political experience,” Carson wrote in the initial version of his post. “The current Members of Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience. Are
J. Thomas McCarthy and Dina Roumiantseva, “Divert All Trademark Appeals to the Federal Circuit? We Think Not, 105 TMR 1276 (2015).
My favorite paragraphs:
“Has the Federal Circuit met the goal of speaking with a single voice on challenging and difficult issues of patent law? Critics argue that it has not, because disagreements
Owner of trademark and copyrights in Russian TV programming sues NY-based streaming service, Actava TV, in the SDNY.
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Amicus brief of 31 professors in support of Electronic Arts in EA v. Michael Davis, on petition for writ of cert:
Whether the First Amendment protects a speaker from a state-law right of publicity claim arising out of the realistic portrayal of a person in an expressive work.
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NFL player sues fantasy football provider FanDuel on Rights of Publicity, false association, unjust enrichment. Competitor DraftKings, which is the target of a different type of class action along with FanDuel, has a deal with NFLPA.
FanDuel does have a deal with hometown team, the Ravens. FanDuel has apparently previously had deals