American Geophysical Union v. Texaco Inc.

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• granting interlocutory appeal where “there is a strong public interest in having prompt appellate review”
• “ ‘The critical requirement is that [the issue] have the potential for substantially accelerating the disposition of the litigation.’ ”
• although such a fact- centered justification for photocopying “ has some m erit,'’ and is “ ingenious,” it “ simply does not fit the facts of the case”
• “[I]n most circumstances, failure to respond in an 17 opposition brief to an argument put forward in an opening brief constitutes waiver or 18 abandonment in regard to the uncontested issue.”
• “[F]ailure to respond in an opposition brief to an 4 argument put forward in an opening brief constitutes waiver or abandonment in regard 5 to the uncontested issue.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• discussing this CCC licensing practice

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