I hope the Texans have enough pride in their community to pursue ethical processes toward business advancement. Patent trolls are business poison, but casual disregard for people is community poison. There's no reason ethics should get in the way of profits.
Article says judgement was delivered by jury. This gives whole another angle to East Texas thing. Let's say you are town. Your major business is lawsuits, specifically, lawsuits from patent trolls. You are able to pay your bills because all these trolls descend in to your town feeling lucky and throw all these money to keep tour town prospered. How much jury selected from this town would be inclined to give judgments in plaintiff's favor?
Including this one, which is why I brought up this point in the discussion.
Here an East Texas jury looked at the facts etc. as portrayed by both sides, the law as instructed by the judge, and delivered the "right" verdict, which happened to be against the plaintiff.
But surely they pay some attention to community sentiment.
There are some jerks behind the bench, I'm sure, but I like to think the majority are willing to serve their community objectively (or the legal system has no hope) and that would entail not screwing the very people he's appointed to serve.
Government serves the people, not the other way around.
If they are not from the area or a similar area and are climbing the federal court ladder, the majority seem to give not a care what the locals think. The locals are not the ones they need to impress.
I hope the Texans have enough pride in their community to pursue ethical processes toward business advancement. Patent trolls are business poison, but casual disregard for people is community poison. There's no reason ethics should get in the way of profits.