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Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) was the first Chief Judge of the Federal Claims Court, and was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 until announcing his retirement on December 18, 2017, after a growing number of allegations of improper sexual conduct. He is also a popular essayist.
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Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
It is an open secret long shared by prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges that perjury is widespread among law enforcement officers.
This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.
The parties are advised to chill.
The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture."
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.
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