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He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up with Him

5 points| hodgesrm | 2 months ago |nytimes.com

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hodgesrm|2 months ago

Thomas Goldstein successfully argued the Supreme Court case that allowed Google to claim fair use of Oracle's Java SE APIs. The rest of his life sounds like a sequel to Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

treetalker|2 months ago

1. Questionable whether The American University should be taken as a non-elite law school, as the article claims.

2. A fall-from-grace story penned by Toobin, of all people.