“And the key here is we’re in a celebrity and wealth-driven society so quite naturally, people are going to take his side…but the bottom-line here is not necessarily just the outcome…but justice should not be a luxury only the rich can afford and nobody should be bullied out of the judicial system.”

Chicago attorney Jeffrey Leving, representing the woman claiming she is carrying Justin Bieber’s child

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“But then you have to, you know, ask yourself the question: Are nonambulatory swine so easily excludable as horses? Why couldn’t the state then exclude swine with various kinds of diseases? And then it would be clear that the state was doing something that the federal statute is supposed to be doing.”

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, voicing concerns about the potential “slippery slope” of California Deputy Attorney General Susan K. Smith in support of her state’s law banning the use of “downer” cattle in the food supply

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“Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer may say that they find “laughable” the court’s decision to uphold our claim that they stole my clients’ ideas for the Huffington Post, but we are gratified to have the opportunity to bring the truth to light.”

Q: In the Barnes & Noble case, one of the patents in question covers a graphical feature that indicates when a Web page is loading and disappears when it’s gone. How novel of an invention is that really?

A: The key differentiating feature, among devices, is the experience that the user enjoys. So anyone can take a particular feature, particularly someone not versed on patent law and technology topics, and then belittle the significance of an invention.

Microsoft Deputy General Counsel gets a little passive-aggressive with reporter James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle

Microsoft attorney outlines Android patent tactics

“I know from my own personal experience, as an adolescent, and as a young adult that pot can make you stupid. I tried to smoke pot and refrain from doing stupid things, really I did, but I always ended up on the wrong end of the stupid stick every time I smoked marijuana.”

Attorney Tim Pori, in a blog post about the limits of CA’s medical marijuana laws

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