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David Boies

American Lawyer

Born: Mar 11, 1941

Case Day People Think Win You

Related authors: Asa Hutchinson Clarence Darrow James Carville Judy Sheindlin Kamala Harris Ralph Nader Robert Green Ingersoll William Jennings Bryan

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

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

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

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

Music Alleged Only Sharing Napster Engage Users Activity Copyright Liability

While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary. David Boies

Time Good Money Difficult Think Spend Evidence Somehow More Fact Good Teachers Part Idea Tenure Attracting Attracts Doing Contrary Any In Fact While Them Teachers Paying Agree Need

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

Home Recording Says Lawful Directly Consumers Audio Act Copying

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years. David Boies

Beginning Summer Paper Between Boy Years

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently. David Boies

You Made Lose Minds Case Something Could Facts Never Had Know Because Judges Were Up Done Whether Against Differently

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money. David Boies

Day Every Day Money Sunday Made Penny Every Paper Kid Papers Plus Delivered Had Lot Cents Customers Each

Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it. David Boies

Once Case Stuck Take

Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work. David Boies

Work Family People Most Balancing Priorities Two

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

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

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't. David Boies

People Win Every Think Virtually Case Cases Should Number

One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California. David Boies

Education Government Gay Respect Inferiority Lesbian One Of The Things Citizens Exactly Exactly What Some Brown Proposition Badge California Couples Court Does Impose Board Held Things

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