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The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

~David Boies

Topics: Against Bill Bill Of Rights Constitution Court Decision Decisions Down Every Fundamental Fundamental Rights Including Legislation Love Majority Marry Minority Past Person Protect Purpose Rights Strikes Supreme Supreme Court Very Voters You

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We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.

~David Boies

Topics: Based Child Corrosive Destroying Did Economics Effect Live Now Opportunity Our Parents People Racial Same Schools Segregation Where

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Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.

~David Boies

Topics: Accomplish Common Common Ground Disagree Disagreeable Diversity Embrace Fact Find Great Great Things Ground Ideas Make Maybe Nine Out People Progress Things You

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You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

~David Boies

Topics: About Children Competence Doctors Feel Firm Go Had Hospital Law Law Firm Lawyers Merit Parents Regardless Same Schools Send Tenure Way Were Where You

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It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

~David Boies

Topics: Accurate Case Complicated Easy Figure Freedom Going Hard Out Shade Simple Sustain Takes Truth Truths Very Work You Your

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When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

~David Boies

Topics: Case First First Thing Important Industry Internet Me Music Music Industry Napster Only Struck The First Thing Thing Think Whole You

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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

~David Boies

Topics: Ads Allow Central Classified Data Going Here Just Like Must New New Technology Newspaper People Provide Technology Work You

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Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

~David Boies

Topics: Activity Alleged Copyright Engage Liability Music Napster Only Sharing Users

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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

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Topics: Act Audio Consumers Copying Directly Home Lawful Recording Says

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Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

~David Boies

Topics: Cases Lawyer Like Obviously

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: March 11th, 1941

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