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Stricter regulations for Internet data tracking are imminent. The question is simply how sweeping such regulations will be.

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To repeat what I have often said, we judges and lawyers are storytellers. Every lawsuit, every judicial opinion involves a story.

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Erwin Chemerinsky is impressed and disturbed by Richard Epstein's The Classic Liberal Constitution. ...