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An Anne Arundel County judge did not err by using contextual evidence to decide that a defendant’s phone call from jail was a coded request for another man to commit murder, the Appellate Court of ...

“The court indicated that the PTAB had based its finding of the term ‘fixed’ entirely on extrinsic evidence and found that the intrinsic evidence was clear with respect to the meaning of ‘fixed.’” In ...

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that extrinsic evidence could be used to prove the validity of a will signed by the testator’s conservator under the conservator’s mistaken belief that his ...

In his Evidence column, Michael J. Hutter discusses two issues arising under New York law governing impeachment: the ban on the use of extrinsic evidence that contradicts the witness's testimony on a ...

Last month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Aatrix Software, Inc., v. Green Shades Software, Inc., No. 2017-1452 (Fed. Cir. February 14, 2018). Issued on ...

Ryan Logan Valdez of Cantey Hanger. The eight-corners rule is an obvious, self-explanatory rule. It says what it means, and it means what it says, right? Maybe. It's complicated. Under the ...

An Ontario court has found that an insurer has a duty to defend its policy holder according to the errors and omissions coverage in copyright proceedings pending in a California court, excluding ...

In the aftermath of federal district judge Dale A. Kimball's recent ruling, which determined that Novell, not SCO, is the rightful owner of the UNIX copyrights, the once-mighty proprietary UNIX vendor ...