![]() Short horror stories to tell at night and scary tales for kids and adults to read online. Read about creepy ghosts, Japanese urban legends and classic tales of. Yes, the documentary style is a little odd, and it seems it is going to be like that for the rest of the season, but it was not bad either, I'm thinking that perhaps in one episode the actors will meet the actual people, and some weird stuff will happen. And what I really liked is that it was focused on ONLY ONE STORY, what made Hotel so so bad was that there were sooooo many characters and sooo many stories, each episode was basically the backstory of each character, they should have focused on the ten commandments killer only. In short, this season looks promising. Seasonal anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show. Horror movie news, reviews features and message boards. Directed by Bradley Buecker. With Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lily Rabe. Matt and Shelby, a couple from Los Angeles, leave the city and move into a. American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Described as an anthology series, each. An anthology horror-drama series, each season is conceived as a self-contained mini-series. The first season takes place in 2011 and follows the Harmon family. The Cosmic Horror Story trope as used in popular culture. Imagine a universe where even the tiniest spot of hope for the future is blindness in itself, the. American Horror Story: Freak Show (Official Extended Trailer HD)American Horror Story: Freak Show (Official Extended Trailer HD)Song: Carousel by Melanie Martinez. Argument analysis: Justices hear horror stories about venue for patent litigation. At the oral argument Monday morning in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands, the justices finally got their chance to weigh in on one of the Federal Circuit’s most controversial rules – its longstanding conclusion that corporate patent defendants are subject to suit in any district in which they do business, as opposed to only the state in which they are incorporated. The Supreme Court took the latter view in a 1. Fourco Glass v Transmirra Products), but the Federal Circuit has long thought that decision was irrelevant under the modern statutory venue framework. The case involves the interplay between two venue statutes, a general statute (Section 1. Section 1. 40. 0). Section 1. 40. 0 states that a “civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides”; In Fourco, the last time the Supreme Court examined the statute, it concluded that corporations reside in “the state of incorporation only.” The general venue statute (Section 1. For all venue purposes . The question before the court is which of those two understandings applies. The justices seemed not at all settled on how to address that problem. Four strands of discussion provide a good characterization of the argument. The first was the idea, pressed repeatedly by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that it is at this point in time most unusual to limit venue for a business to a single location. Early in the argument, for example, she pressed James Dabney (appearing on behalf of defendant TC Heartland in support of the narrow venue rule): “Is there any other . Principal place of business counts. It doesn’t count under 1. James W. Dabney (Art Lien)Pressing the point again and again through Dabney’s presentation, Ginsburg found particularly telling Dabney’s concession that no statute explicitly limits venue so narrowly. The point was made most clearly by Chief Justice John Roberts during the presentation of William Jay (appearing on behalf of plaintiff Kraft, seeking a broad venue rule): “. Jay (Art Lien)Similarly, Justices Ginsburg and Elena Kagan both noted that the American Law Institute proposal (on which the modern version of Section 1. Congress repeal Section 1. Congress’ failure to do that seems to suggest an intention to leave Fourco in place. As Justice Kagan put it, “the ALI wanted to get rid of 1. Congress didn’t do that.”A third point related to the problem of unincorporated associations. This case, for example, like many patent cases, involves a patent held by a limited liability company rather than a corporation. Traditionally, the rules of patent venue, as settled before World War II, have treated all unincorporated associations – partnerships, limited liability companies and the like – precisely the same as corporations. That is not, of course, the trend of modern venue statutes, which treat corporate venue distinctly from (and more broadly than) the venue of other associations. The problem for the justices, though (especially for Justice Stephen Breyer), was how the court could announce a general rule in this case for corporations (the group for which the Fourco rule is most clearly out of step with contemporary conceptions of venue) when the case before it involves a limited liability company rather than a corporation. Jay engaged in a long colloquy with Breyer in which he explained that he did not want the court to dismiss the case on the basis that the corporate problem was not presented. Rather, Jay emphasized the LLC/corporation distinction as a problem that makes continued reliance on Fourco increasingly odd. Eventually Breyer suggested that the justices could ignore the corporate/LLC distinction as a separate basis for Texas venue in this case, decide the corporate question, and, if the court did not broadly overrule Fourco for corporations, allow Kraft to raise the problem before the Federal Circuit. A fourth point seemed the most surprising – the general lack of interest among the justices in the horror stories about the concentration of venue in the Eastern District of Texas. The subject did come up, but in such a desultory way that it does not seem to be all that important to their thinking about the case. If anybody seemed concerned about the problem it was Roberts, who responded to a comment made by Jay with the interjection: “So we shouldn’t worry that 2. The other justices who addressed the problem, though, seemed to range from ambivalent to uninterested. In the ambivalent group, Kagan commented at one point that the “complaint” of the defendants is that the current rule “allows a kind of forum shopping,” in which plaintiffs can say “. To the court, the case is much more about the jurisprudential problem of how – or whether – an old decision of the Supreme Court can cease to be binding without Congress ever really taking direct steps to eradicate it. Approached that way, the dispute does not lend itself to easy resolution. I would put this one down for a long period of deliberation. Posted in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, Analysis, Featured, Merits Cases. Recommended Citation. Ronald Mann. Argument analysis: Justices hear horror stories about venue for patent litigation. SCOTUSblog (Mar. 2. AM). http: //www.
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