Pauli Murray
On this day in 1964, Pauli Murray circulated a memo arguing that black and white women would “share a common fate of discrimination” unless Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited sex discrimination in employment as well as race discrimination. The memo helped keep the “sex amendment” in T7.
I really hesitate to weigh in here, because the conversation has gotten ugly in a way I find not particularly constructive, but I took a look because the example is copyright law. I've spent hours pouring over the law & legislative record on this for my own research and I have some thoughts.
We didn't deserve this day.
Remember the law-review author who outsourced his writing to generative AI? The one that made me say, "I now know that neither this attorney’s new article nor their old one is worth reading."
He outed himself, and it turns out the article in question is as bad as I predicted.
Worse, even.
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(((Mark Jaffe))), 5 Bridges Law @MarkJKings Jan 6, 2021 This is a dark day in American history and also did you get a chance to review that redline I sent you
I thought it would be a one-time post, not evergreen
Zipursky on Tort Theory, Public Nuisance, and Opioid Litigation
Benjamin C. Zipursky (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Pragmatic Conceptualism, Public Nuisance, and the American Opioid Litigation (Forthcoming in 83 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. __ (2026) (Draft of March 20, 2026)) on SSRN. Here…
I’ve lost track of what’s an April fools joke and what’s reality
All my IP folks need to read this whole thread
Gentle reminder on this day: saying things like "we are all immigrants (except natives)" actually erases important amounts of American history.
There are a lot of people who are not native whose ancestors never immigrated to the US.
I have stolen
12T of KitKats
that were
in transit
and which
you were probably
hoping to buy
in Poland
forgive me
the world is stressful
and I needed
a break
I regret I cannot contribute to this as I work in the field of law
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.
She accepted three.
One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
“Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed in large numbers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. But some Northern District judges are growing skeptical of various parts of this litigation model. Some judges are requiring plaintiffs to post higher bonds when they obtain ex parte asset-freezing TROs. Or refusing to issue such freezes entirely. Other judges are pushing back on the propriety of joining non-transactionally-related sellers, questioning—and sometimes explicitly rejecting—the mass joinder theory that underlies this litigation model. In the wake of these developments, many Schedule A plaintiffs are engaging in what appear to be new forms of judge shopping. This Article analogizes the actions these plaintiffs are taking to certain forms of cheating at roulette—namely, “pinching” and “pressing” bets. This Article investigates and analyzes these developments, situating defendant pinching and pressing in the larger literature about judge-shopping. It suggests new local rules that would increase transparency, promote fairness, and discourage judge-shopping.
Now on SSRN: The working draft of my newest article, "Defendant Pinching & Pressing," which is forthcoming in the @washulawreview.bsky.social.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This is a non-final draft. Comments are very much welcome.
Check out this important new paper by my colleague @design-law.bsky.social about a new form of judge shopping - where plaintiffs add or drop defendants in mass joinder #IP cases based on the judge they are assigned. She compares this to cheating maneuvers in #roulette!
As a result, these convos are too often framed as “how do we use AI in X domain?” - as though finding use cases for AI were an appropriate role for anyone other than an AI company’s PR department!
How on earth am I supposed to trust someone to make decisions about AI when they're asking AI "hey, am I right?" and then are like "yo everyone, look, AI said I am right."
Cough Naples cough cough
There’s no accounting for taste
Aw thanks!
If you're interested in AI & judging, I'd read @coxlaw.bsky.social instead: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...
This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.
Your friendly reminder that you can just go to a drugstore and get an MMR!
I did! My measles titer was LOW.
No side effects, no problems.
Worth noting that another judge recently suggested that a few pages’ summary of Game of Thrones could be an infringing copy; compare to the much more detailed if annoyed summaries contained in this opinion
Especially me.
I'm losing the ability to contrive law school exam hypotheticals that are more absurd than the actual news
Last session of #WIPIP2026, and Alex Roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social asks “are we human, or are we brands now?” Or “I curated this look, so I must own it!” - Litigating Personal Brand: Intellectual Property & Construction of the Self
