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I’m enjoying SMU law prof David Taylor’s new blog on the Federal Circuit, FedCircuitBlog which provides coverage of the goings-on at Lafayette Square.

Professor Taylor is the Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Associate Professor of Law at SMU’s Dedman School of Law in Dallas. He’s a familiar case to Texas patent practitioners – he even brought his patent law class to Marshall last year to see how the local court works.

So congratulations Professor Taylor on the new adventure, and I look forward to reading your forthcoming posts.

I rarely have to correct David Coale’s excellent 600 Camp, but he did miss something today in discussing United States v. The M/Y Galactica Star, No. 18-20781 (5th Cir. Oct. 1, 2019).

He correctly noted that the MV Galactica Star is not the Battlestar Galactica, which is of course obvious since one is a motor yacht and the other isn’t. He failed to avoid confusion by noting that it is also not the Rising Star, which was another ship in the ragtag fleet that accompanied the Galactica after the Battle of Cimtar and destruction of the Twelve Colonies.

Lest you think this is an unnecessary point to make, I remind you that the case deals with a Nigerian official with large sums of money and an appellant named LightRay, so a Battlestar Galactica reference may not actually the weirdest thing.

So say we all.