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even The World Health Organization,
6 it seems that no one is beyond of
the reach of the class action, especially in the wake of the
coronavirus pandemic. But have the plaintiffs in these cases
suffered a bona fide injury caused by the defendants
conduct?
Many contemporary class actions exhibit features of what one
legal scholar of past mass tort waves dubbed the entrepreneurial model
7 of lawyer-driven litigation. This
article examines those features and the problems they present, and
discusses how they can be leveraged in the defense of class
actions-from standing to certification to merits.
Background: The Entrepreneurial Model of Mass
A Killeen man serving a life sentence for capital murder may be eligible for parole sooner than expected thanks to a bill that has passed the Texas House and is currently in the Texas Senate.
Jason Isaiah Robinson, 43, is being held in the Hughes Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Gatesville.
He was sentenced to life in prison on Aug. 9, 1995, according to TDCJ inmate records.
Currently, Robinson, who was 16 at the time of the crime he was sentenced for, is eligible for parole on Nov. 13, 2034, according to his inmate record.
Jason Robinson has been incarcerated at the Hughes Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Gatesville for his involvement in a crime in 1994. Texas House Bill 686 may make him eligible for parole sooner.
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Recent Google v. Oracle Ruling Raises Questions as Well as Answers by Jim Turley
No less an authority than the United States Supreme Court just ruled that a program’s application programming interface can be copied under the doctrine of copyright “fair use.” Google copied thousands of lines of Oracle’s code in order to implement its own version of the Java API without actually licensing the official Java API. The Court ruled that Google didn’t need a license because it’s okay to duplicate the API without one.
In a sense, this was no big deal because most programmers were already operating under this assumption. It