We need Federal Law to Protect Gays and Lesbians from Discrimination

With the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, the gay and lesbian community, like many interest groups, is hoping that issues important to it will be addressed. Though gay marriage seems to be the issue “du jour” for our community; in reality we should be paying attention to protection from employment discrimination. . .

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Separate is NEVER Equal -- Even in Jersey

The New Jersey Supreme Court might have thought it was dropping a bombshell when it ruled that gay and lesbian committed couples deserved the same legal benefits as heterosexual married couples under the state’s constitution. But the justices achieved something else: they fired off a dud. Continue Reading...

Reverse engineering is not an inviolate right

Reverse engineering is not an inviolate right

      Actually, contracts control. I can have a privilege to do something, but then can waive that privilege. So too the privilege to make limited copies for purposes of some forms of reverse engineering.

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It's Easy and Wrong to Blame Immigrants for Crime

The airline industry has a term for what Houston wants to do about illegal immigrants and the crimes they commit. When pilots make the wrong decisions because of a real or perceived need to rush through their tasks, they are said to have experienced the “hurry-up syndrome.” Inevitably, the end result is a calamity. Continue Reading...

Antitrust in Dallas

A letter to four ranking Congressmen gets to the heart of the antitrust issues surrounding the supercharged plans involving airfields in Dallas.
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Innocence as a Death-Penalty Distraction

For too many years now, death penalty opponents have seized on the nightmare of executing an innocent man as a tactic to erode support for capital punishment in America. Innocence is a distraction. Continue Reading...

An Unsafe Harbor On Detainee Treatment

Unsafe Harbor: The GOP 'Compromise' on Detainee Treatment

Congressional adoption of the recent “compromise” between three Republican Senators and President Bush does not provide proper legal guidance to U.S. interrogators, and adherence merely to its standards would place the United States in violation of common Article 3 and other provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions,  not to mention similar provisions in several other international treaties and instruments and customary international law. Those who would authorize, abet, or implement the “compromise” language in violation of common Article 3 would be subject to criminal and civil sanctions outside the United States in any foreign forum and in certain international courts.

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