Intellectual Property Law

Word density

By thomason

Why is that parties are limited to only so many words or pages, or density of type when pleading a cause, but courts can use unlimited pages to set out their decisions.  Presumably, the pleader is the better editor, relying on clearer, declarative sentences, while the deciders just let it all flow across endless pages. 
Maybe some judicial decisions should be released on  twitter.

Full post as published by ISinIP on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).