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> (he doesn't get paid per case or anything). Contemporary corruption isn't that simple minded. The patent trolls and other litigants involved in these cases
by topspin 6y ago
> (he doesn't get paid per case or anything).
Contemporary corruption isn't that simple minded.
The patent trolls and other litigants involved in these cases employ the sons and daughters and son-in-laws and daughter-in-laws and extended family members and friends of the congress persons that fund courts. They do this through $500k/year nonprofit chairpersonships and choice positions in wealthy corporations and other institutions, and nifty positions on the rowing team so Johnny gets into Harvard. The judge gets a well funded court with lots of clerks and other staff the Judge gets to pick, and a docket full of cases with billions of dollars at stake. So the judge gets courted by the most wealthy and influential people in the world.
People that eat most of their dinners with the circle of lawyers that work for Apple and Google and Disney and all the mysterious hedge funds tend to live in multiple enormous houses and have burgeoning bank accounts.
- xbar 6y agoFormer patent goon drives billions of dollars in patent goon business to his door. This is a sex-toy-patent lawyer who got nominated as a West-Texas-oil-country Federal judge and who is advertising to patent troll holding companies to sue the wealthiest companies in America in his court and then so thoroughly denies motions to move the cases to more reasonable courts that he pre-emptively tries to deny any further motions to move such cases because he wants to keep all the cases in his jurisdiction. For reasons. Nothing suspect about this at all.
- vonmoltke 6y ago> a West-Texas-oil-country Federal judge Not that it's really relevant to the story, but "West-Texas-oil-country" is actually in the Northern District of Texas, based in Dallas. The "Western" District is mostly central Texas, then extending west along the US-Mexico border.