Now, a California judge has thrown that model into uncertainty.

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Only in old movies--at least until 1981, when Harper (Judge Roy Bean) Creigh, a scale-model designer from Orange County, Calif.

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Harvard Business School, Susan Fiske of Princeton, and Peter Glick of Lawrence University have developed a new model to further delineate how we quickly judge others.

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Brown, who lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, has a history of legal and drug problems, although a judge described him earlier this year as a good role model.

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"Here were women who are going to encourage me to get off my butt but weren't going to judge me if I didn't look like a swimsuit model in six months, " she said.

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While the latest ITC ruling noted that Apple's iPhone 3G model and several Blackberry devices had infringed the patent, the judge indicated this was not grounds for the devices to be banned from sale in the US, on the grounds that the innovation did not deserve its patent status.

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In fact, the Duesenberg Model J fairly blows away most cars in history, whether you judge its coachwork, engineering, or sheer presence.

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A320s were not covered under the judge's ban, and the TAM jet that crashed was a relatively recent model, said William Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va.

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District Judge Lucy Koh's move opens the way for US sales of Samsung's older tablet model to restart.

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