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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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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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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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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You know what’s annoying? Finding a form online that isn’t fillable. You know what’s even more annoying? Having a form with additional pages that require re-entering the same information from the first page multiple times! Well, the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts has just such a form for a civil court
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Attorney Griffin Klema has been quoted in the Florida Bar News on the Florida Supreme Court’s recent approval of an ethics rule change allowing lawyers to pass along credit card fees to judgment debtors and parties entering into settlement agreements. I am pleased that Floridians now have greater freedoms to
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Calculating Statutory Settlement Offers Trying to figure out what an opposing party would have to get in a judgment to beat your proposal for settlement? Want to make an offer of judgment under Florida’s statute (Section 768.79) and need to calculate the amount? The math seems pretty straightforward, but in
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