• “[W]e can’t develop good drugs … if after the fact somebody comes in and makes a false claim of credit.” Genentech beats Niro firm (Jul. 21) in billion-dollar patent case. [Legal Intelligencer]
• Excellent new blog on science evidence issues. [Science Evidence; Point of Law]
• Easterbrook: mandating software be free is not “price fixing” injurious to consumers. Duh. [Seventh Circuit via Bashman; see also Heidi Bond via Baude]
• Missouri high court upholds reform law barring some types of dramshop liability against equal protection challenge. [Snodgras v. Huck’s; AP/Columbia Daily Tribune]
• Insurance company profits: the complete story. [Grace]
• I address Hyman & Silver’s latest paper on medical malpractice. [Point of Law]
• Seattle cop spends $10,000 of taxpayer money on lap dances in unsuccessful officially-authorized quest for prostitution violations. [Seattle Times]
• Peter Lattman discovers Willie Gary’s website. Overlawyered readers were there two years ago. Gary himself is being hoisted by a litigation and advertising petard. [WSJ Law Blog; Fulton County Daily Report]
• Andy Griffith sues Andy Griffith for use of Andy Griffith name. [AP/CNN]
• The $2.1 million deposition. [Above the Law; Kirkendall; New York Times]
• Scalia and Man at Yale. [Above the Law; Yale Daily News; Krishnamurthy via Bashman]
• Wallison: Deregulation works. [AEI]
• Must-read: An agenda for the Bush White House in the Democratic 110th Congress. [Frum @ WSJ @ AEI]
• Clegg: Learn from the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. [NRO]
• Krauthammer points out that both parties have moved right this election. [WaPo]
• Will: “About $2.6 billion was spent on the 468 House and Senate races. (Scandalized? Don’t be. Americans spend that much on chocolate every two months.)” [WaPo]
• At least we’re not Iran: sex video has criminal consequences there. [Daily Mail]

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