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Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc.
In this case, the Supreme Court must decide whether a certain issue is one of law or fact. It finds that neither history nor precedent provides a solid answer, so it consults what it views as the competencies of each institution. To reiterate, much of this reasoning has the same validity as the Tooth Fairy. Rigorous, quantitative, replicated social science randomized experiments have decimated most of it. Courts, of course, could care less.
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