Occupation: Lawyer Birth: March 11, 1941
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes ….
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of wha….
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful..
It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. Wha….
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is ….
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like….
I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was ….
You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if y….
It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity ….
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry….
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost..
But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him..
I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years..
My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996..
Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases..