Apple has appealed an order to stop charging developers a 30% commission on App Store sales and requested a stay in the meantime. Prof. Erika Douglas says the company’s best bet is to show that the order would create irreparable harm. Read more at Yahoo Finance.

Apple has appealed an order to stop charging developers a 30% commission on App Store sales and requested a stay in the meantime. Prof. Erika Douglas says the company’s best bet is to show that the order would create irreparable harm. Read more at Yahoo Finance.

The US welcomes refugees from Afghanistan but turns away Haitians. Why? Assoc. Dean Jaya Ramji-Nogales joins Borderlines to talk about the special rules arising from the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more at Berkeley Law.  

Barclays has parted ways with its CEO after renewed interest in his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Prof. Tom Lin notes the speed with which they named his successor and discusses the importance of succession planning to crisis management. Read more at Forbes.

A widely reported letter from Sens. Leahy and Tillis, who lead the Judiciary committee, directing Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate alleged patent litigation abuses in a Waco court relies heavily on scholarship by Prof. Paul Gugliuzza. Read more at Patently-O.

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza says a prominent judge’s obligation to recuse himself may remove a big incentive for plaintiffs who chose to file in his district on the basis of his prior rulings and court procedures. Read more at Wall Street Journal.

The State Dept’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy has an ambitious agenda, including upcoming UN talks toward a cybercrime treaty that Prof. Duncan Hollis says will require a “pretty savvy diplomat.” Read more at Bloomberg Law.

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza joined a panel of patent law experts to discuss whether the Federal Circuit should retain exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals. Read more at Law360.

Prof. Funmi Arewa highlighted the potential for abuse arising from the concentration of power in tech companies like Facebook and Google at a recent symposium, “Security, Privacy and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era.” Read more at Just Security.

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza discusses his current research, taking a look at how the Federal Circuit’s use of mandamus in patent cases has influenced decisions by Judge Alan Albright in Waco, TX, who in 2020 heard more than 20% of the patent cases nationwide. Read more at Patently-O.