David Boies

David Boies
David Boiesis an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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The Supreme Court of the United States has not, at least for 100 years and maybe going back further, ever stepped in to change the results of a national election by substituting its judgment as to how votes ought to be counted for the judgment of local election officials,
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From the beginning we've said we are going to respect the rule of law. If the Supreme Court of the United States says no more votes will be counted, then that's the end of it,
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What is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.
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It's clear that what is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.
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What I am asking is that the court use its power so that the votes of all the people of Florida that have been cast can be counted,
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They placed on the plaintiffs the burden of first coming forward and identifying a work that they had a copyright in, and second demonstrating that it was listed on the Napster index that is available through Napster. Because the court of appeals -- we think -- properly put that burden on the plaintiffs, we have begun by dealing with those files where the plaintiffs have met that burden.
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Absolutely your honor. In Sony, the court found that sports programming was a significant non-infringing use and that was 7.3 percent of all of the uses of the Betamax. They talked about the significance of one movie that was uncopyrighted,'My Man Godfrey.' They talked about one television show, 'Mister Rogers,' and that was significant.
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This is going to be resolved by the Florida Supreme Court promptly, and what I think is that will be the end of the matter. I think whoever wins in the Florida Supreme Court will accept that.
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This is the first case that I am aware of where, in a ballot contest, the court has refused to look at any ballot,
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What is being done here on the basis of what we think is a very over-broad prior restraint is to forbid, in a way that no appellate court has ever upheld before, a distribution of intellectual information, intellectual knowledge, owned by the person who is distributing it.
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The court heard Judge (Charles) Burton (of the Palm Beach County canvassing board), called by the defendants, testify that they had been able to identify the clear intent of the voters such to add a net 215 votes to Vice President Gore.
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The statute says you need only have a sufficient number of votes to change or place in the doubt the results of an election. (Sauls) has not even looked at any of the ballots.
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There was a disadvantage to us in not being able to deal with Mr. Colburn at the time he was on the stand ... I think that disadvantage has been more than taken care of today because we had Mr. Case able to testify to that.
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Both Mr. Shandling and I are very pleased with the settlement. We're very pleased we could achieve it without the necessity of a trial.