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In between chuckles, maybe you can explain the corruption charges to me.

Dozens if not hundreds of articles have been written about corruption around patent trolling in the Eastern District of Texas.

You have everything you need to seek those articles out. Asking others to do simple tasks for you indicates a desire to waste their time. It could fairly be interpreted as... trolling.

Offhand accusations of extremely serious charges like corruption breed lazy cynicism. It's not only fair but a good idea to ask people to support their claims: a little bit of intellectual rigor could make the difference between a valuable forum and an echo chamber where _everyone knows_ that outgroup x is just _so corrupt_.

It's really not good to say "just go and google it and you'll see how right I am". Antivaxxers, for example, say the same thing.

It's self-evident. To the extent a court is biased, it's corrupt. And if they weren't biased, they wouldn't be a nationally recognized haven for patent trolls, would they?

Having local rules that expedite patent cases isn’t evidence of bias. It’s evidence of efficiency.

seems like a question for the other person, unless you're not really interested.

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