He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up with Him

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hodgesrmAuthor

9 days ago

Thomas Goldstein successfully argued the Supreme Court case that allowed Google to claim fair use of Oracle's Java SE APIs. The rest of his life sounds like a sequel to Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

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9 days ago

1. Questionable whether The American University should be taken as a non-elite law school, as the article claims.

2. A fall-from-grace story penned by Toobin, of all people.

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