Musings on Intellectual Property
In most cases, my client or my client’s opponent has emails that are relevant in a lawsuit and are subject to discovery. But what happens when those emails are in Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. accounts? What about Facebook messages? Well, you normally get them from the person who sent or
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Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Lackey v. Stinnie, 604 U.S. __ (2025). I was eagerly awaiting the Court’s decision there, as I had cited that (then-pending) case in a petition for writ of certiorari I filed in September 2024: Abdelsayed v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. My
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Updated: February 27, 2025 Sometimes I marvel at how judges understand other courts’ opinions. OK, actually I get frustrated at it when they read them in a way that’s totally incorrect. No, actually the right word is infuriated, because once a judge has made up their mind on what a
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Solar energy production by individual homes is likely being thwarted by behind-the-scenes accounting at power companies and the market for solar panels. What do I mean by that? Well, the economics of an individual homeowner to invest in a solar array for their home for a grid-tie system are driven
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No one likes to receive a letter from a lawyer, especially one claiming that you’ve done something wrong, like infringing someone’s copyright. That’s exactly what Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc., and its proprietor, Robert Stevens are doing: employing law firms to send demand letters to people who might have a photograph
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What’s behind the two cents per kilowatt-hour that TECO pays to people who produce more energy than they consume (so-called net producers)? Profiteering, based on my analysis. TECO appears to earn a 50% profit from net solar energy producers (even at current net metering rates) because its two cents “cost
Continue readingThis originally appeared in a holistic (i.e. too long) post, and the good stuff was buried at the bottom. I’ve kept the analysis here for anyone who’s interested in how I arrived at my ultimate conclusions in Why TECO Pays Less to Solar Net Producers. The Starting Point: Tariffs Have
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Now that the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure require parties to prepare their responses to written discovery (interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admissions), lawyers and support staff need to become efficient with creating their response documents based on a PDF-version that was served. Sometimes it can be difficult
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My ire with technology companies is well-known to my wife, who hears me scream expletives whenever I encounter inane, self-serving crap peddled (forced) on paying software customers. It’s abhorrent. Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, all of them. They all do it because it’s part of the software development culture now. It wasn’t
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Updated: May 4, 2022. One problem that people sometimes run into is figuring out who they need to sue or a potential witness’s true identity. It’s usually necessary to identify an individual person you need to sue or subpoena, but the United States post office boxes often don’t let you
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