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Privacy Injunctions in the Age of the Internet and Social Media: PJS v News Group Newspapers

Privacy Injunctions in the Age of the Internet and Social Media: PJS v News Group Newspapers

The reposting of this article is part of a cross-post agreement with Cyberlex. You’re a celebrity and had a threesome. Your partner wasn’t one of them. You want the affair to remain private. You go to a court in England where your family resides and get an interim injunction. It prevents the English press from publishing […]

Does The Status And Character Of The Litigant Or Litigant-Related Participant Influence Judicial Decision Making And Therefore The Result?

Does The Status And Character Of The Litigant Or Litigant-Related Participant Influence Judicial Decision Making And Therefore The Result?

Munyonzwe Hamalengwa is a Ph.D candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. There are millions of words that have been written both by conservative and progressive judges, lawyers, scholars, political scientists, social scientists, historians and journalists on various judicial philosophies and interpretative doctrines, but the influence of the status of the litigant in influencing judicial decision […]

High-tech patent litigation study: NPEs and others

High-tech patent litigation study: NPEs and others

In her research paper titled "Of Trolls, Davids, Goliaths, and Kings: Narratives and evidence in the litigation of high-tech patents," Assistant Professor Colleen V. Chien, at Santa Clara University School of Law, provides a snapshot of U.S. patent litigation that could not only inform current efforts to reform the patent system, but could also serve […]