Likelihood of Success
A potpourri of legal and nonlegal topics of general interest. As the blawg itself puts it: “Likelihood of success on the merits” — 'likelihood of success' for short — is a term used by courts to describe one of the factors considered when evaluating whether to grant a preliminary injunction: In order to merit the 'unusual' remedy of preliminary relief, the party that wants the injunction has to be able to convince the court, on a preliminary basis — meaning before the record is fully developed — that one of the reasons it is entitled to temporary relief is that it will probably win the case anyway."
Author: Ronald D. Coleman is a New York lawyer and author. Coleman also writes Likelihood of Confusion and contributes to Legislating IP.
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Recent Posts from Likelihood of Success
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Don’t leave a message at the sound of tone
Michael Arrington: [A]n increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail (for my impromptu and unscientific survey, see the comments here, which are predominantly anti-voicemail). It takes much longer to listen to a message…
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When “I don’t know” is heresy… and when it’s not
The brilliant Penn Jillette makes a living from being a skeptic. Skepticism, he reports in the LA Times, isn’t good enough for the “reality based community, however — not on matters central to the canon:…
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Associated Press still gunning for America
The AP wants to make damned sure you get their point: [T]alk turns to the state of the Union, and the Optimists become decidedly bleak. They use words such as “terrified,” “disgusted” and “scary” to…
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Bozo, RIP
Larry Harmon died. He was not Bozo in New York, I think, so he wasn’t all Bozos to all men, yet as the AP story points out, “Larry Harmon wasn’t the original Bozo the Clown,…
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Martindale and me. Ok, well, mostly me.
I only mention this here because we can talk. It’s just a few of us who read the blog, and by now we’re mostly pretty good friends and no one here is going to take…
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“Authorities mull reasons for alleged killing spree”
Yes, that’s the AP’s headline: Authorities mull reasons for alleged killing spree Very wise, the “alleged” part. What if the killing spree ends up being acquitted?
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Massively cool, and right-wingy too
The AP reports great news from Colombia, where government forces have freed three longstanding US hostages, a kidnapped presidential candidate and eleven Colombian police and soldiers: [It was] the most serious blow ever dealt to…
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Cooking lawyers alive
O’Connor federal courthouse Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman Yesterday I was here, in the stupidestly-designed courthouse on God’s brutally-baked brown desert earth — the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. It is…
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Ain’t coming back
Chrysler reports that it’s shutting down minivan production. “Foreman said, ‘These jobs are goin’, boys, and they ain’t comin’ back … to your hometown.” Bruce was right then, and he’d be right to say it…
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The last time, as parody
I don’t go to the movies. Long story; I don’t. And we don’t have a TV. So I don’t usually know what’s going on Hollywood wise until I travel on business. Then I put on…