This is not the only lawsuit concerning UC Berkeley and its enrollment increases making its way through the courts.
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They will be joined by Supreme Court advocate Tom Goldstein, who argued the case for Google, and by Prof. Sean O’Connor of the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
This year’s conference co-chairs are Lauriebeth Bugawan, Pandora, Ashley Kissinger, Ballard Spahr, and Kandi Parsons, ZwillGen.
Oracle. In ruling that fair use permitted Google to incorporate elements of the Java API into its software for the Android phone, the Court clarified standards not only for fair use as applied to software but also arguably for other copyrighted works as well.
United States, in which the Supreme Court held that the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act’s prohibition on “exceeding authorized access” to a computer is not triggered by exploiting granted access for unauthorized purposes.
Both judges had illustrious careers before joining the bench: Judge Moore as an engineer, advocate, and well-known, prolific professor and Judge Albright as a magistrate judge, trial lawyer, and advocate. The judges went out of their way to mentor and guided junior advocates and came together to share their views.
Joel Reidenberg’ s prescient article, Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules Through Technology, published in the Texas Law Review in 1998, urged policymakers to understand, consciously recognize, and encourage the evolution of these extra-legal influences to achieve optimal public policy outcomes.