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Canada - Supreme Court Decides 'plagiarizing' Judge Case | 381 comments | Create New Account
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probably court decisions will get more innovative
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT
when they can get patented. ( for maximum protection; on top of copyrighted of
course )

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Canada - Supreme Court Decides 'plagiarizing' Judge Case
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 01:20 PM EDT
I had a friend in Arkansas that almost the identical circumstances happened in
the birth of their child. But even as a friend I could see the doctor told them
that a vaginal birth was not recommended, yet they persisted. Then they sued
the doctor. You can't fix stupid sometimes, even among friends.

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I can understand that
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:07 PM EDT

When you're in a position of such authority, you'd want to be able to have as clear an understanding of the situation as possible.

As a result, it's best to put your understanding of the parties arguments down in your own words.

Then, if either party has an issue with the understanding - which can have a pretty big impact on the outcome of the case, like the Jury figuring they didn't need to decide the invalidity of Apple's patents - they can clarify that for the Appeals Court if it's an appealable situation.

So 'plagiarizing' public documents/information is not in itself per-se wrong. But it does cloud whether the fact-finder/law-finder really understood what was happening.

Since a properly free Society requires an Open Court, this makes plagiarizing - in a sense - ethically/morally wrong.

RAS

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some news coverage
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 06:04 PM EDT
CBC, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Press via The Tyee

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Doesn't seem like the issue is plagarism here
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:54 PM EDT
but an accusation of bias in which the judge just agreed to the plaintiffs
arguments without sufficient thought. This is only from your description of the
case though, and no other research or knowledge. So I could easily be wrong.

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