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EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" (arstechnica.com)

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-as-a-haven-for-trolls dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge have asked a federal appeals court to make big changes to the rules governing venue in patent cases. The two public interest groups are seeking to file an amicus brief (PDF) which attacks the Eastern District of Texas as being one of the "most notorious situations of forum shopping in recent history." This district has made quite a few appearances on Slashdot; this is one of my favorites.

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  1. Re: Not just Texas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The system is broken. Judges or any publicly elected official for that matter should be required to have their finances opened to the public. Every deposit made to any account they own world wide would be immediately known just by simply clicking a link of that person's name on a website. Judges are lawyers essentially paid for by other lawyers because nobody else knows or cares about lawyers. It's the ultimate good ol boy club. All judges and lawyers are corrupt or corruptable along with all polititians . The only way to fix that is for their finances to be 100% exposed.