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Every state has an old timey common law claim that gets asserted by an older attorney or the most insane pro se litigant around. It’s called like “bill of the wash” and it comes with 4x damages, attorneys’ fees, and you need to prove actual witchcraft to win.
The best parts of this very good @60Minutes segment have gotta be when @cpgrabow tells @LesleyRStahl a few basic Jones Act absurdities, and she repeatedly gasps "NO!" in disbelief - truly shocked that a century-old US law could be...
Fun fact: in the USA you can video and take photos of anyone in any place generally accessible to the public - the Supreme Court has ruled on this - and no security guard can make you stop.
Trump sanctioned French judge Guillou over the Netanyahu arrest warrant → Visa and Mastercard had to cut him off because they're American companies bound by US law. A European judge, debanked in Europe, by US sanctions. Maybe we actually need payment alternatives...
I’m worried about the Companies House data breach, what can I do? - The Times and The Sunday Times https://t.co/Ob5FvbS46f
How are people allowed to patent such trivial and obvious uses of general purpose computers? https://t.co/XblJfmlBN2
I’ve been repotting on this, there are already state lawmakers pushing for VPN bans. The goal is to fully remove anonymity from the internet
“And it’s not even hard to avoid citing AI-hallucinated cases. All you have to do is use Westlaw or Lexis to cite check the brief.” 👀 - a fish in water never realizes it’s wet. legal data is born free and...
"The cost to the country of this new pay-to-play approach to antitrust enforcement is enormous." https://t.co/VmM4NiCVHq
if learning from existing media makes AI outputs illegitimate, then learning from existing media is illegitimate. copyright doesn’t ban learning from works, it bans reproducing them. our neurons make brain copies. the real issue is whether outputs reproduce protected expression.
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/this-week-at-democracy-docket-save-takes-over-the-senate-and-dojs-latest-epic-blunder/
Today we find out Clayton Larcombe's funds are in liquidation. The fund manager associated with the financial planning firm he is purchased is suing him personally. His 70 million of housing (Bellevue Hill, Southern Highlands) is in mortgagee possession And he is...
It is easy to become numb to the corruption afflicting the US government, but corruption of merger oversight is a big deal -- “If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you. I will destroy your job at the...
🚨News Flash: @DIRECTV intervenes in the D.C. Circuit case in agreement with @NEWSMAX and several cable broadband associations seeking to reverse @FCC approval of the @NXSTMediaGroup-@TEGNA merger, which closed March 19. Can they really unscramble the egg? https://t.co/5CxQWIVDs9
Several state broadband associations -- plus @NEWSMAX -- today asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to block @NXSTMediaGroup-@TEGNA merger, which closed on March 19, 2026, the same day the $6.2 billion deal was approved by the...
The Problem With Using A Deferred Sales Trust To Defer Taxes On A Business Sale: Closer scrutiny of the DST strategy raises significant red flags that aren't included in the sales pitch. The characteristic that is needed to make DSTs work...
WOW SEC Chair Paul Atkins says he's eliminating impractical rules to "advance, clarify, and transform" financial markets. SEC Chair Gensler would just sue good actors in crypto instead. This is leadership https://t.co/mdYAtTEVDv
JetBlue Pilots Sue To Stop The United Partnership — Claiming It Violates Their Contract - View from the Wing https://t.co/wf5nzIHtpu
‘… to state the obvious, obtaining and attempting to obtain information is what journalists do. A primary way in which journalists obtain information is by asking questions.’ Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism https://t.co/dpHde6FvrN
SEC, CFTC issue joint crypto taxonomy and investment contract interpretation - Ledger Insights - blockchain for enterprise https://t.co/wVm32xdz4W https://t.co/PH70OjC3lc
what if i told you there’s a relatively simple fix to this mess and it involves ensuring the law is easily available and free to all citizens on the internet?
The ITU is a UN treaty organization which has zero power to create or enforce rules. Regulators from specific countries (eg FCC) are tasked with enforcement. The treaties never contemplated tens of thousands of satellites in a small number of...
#WhosNext? Judges? Court clerks? Judges in England and Wales Given Cautious Approval to Use #AI. (TIME) https://t.co/fSeIRgQLxq https://t.co/MT0oXidgKn
As a business owner, with a bunch of employees--the amount of crap I get in the mail from governments that I have to print, scan, then shred is utterly absurd.
So under this OFAC licence, the US could (though probably won't) import its first Iranian oil since Jimmy Carter https://t.co/7slkt1bAxs
Im sorry I have to say it. While you all are arguing about unimportant things, and tearing each other down. 600,000 black woman are being pushed out from their jobs. Also Trump quietly passed Executive Order 14281, this directly affects...
Statement tonight from the Pentagon Press Association: "The Pentagon Press Association celebrates the decision by a federal judge today that the Pentagon’s press credentialling policy violated the U.S. Constitution. "Since the ruling clearly states that the policy must not be applied...
LinkedIn gonna be crazy on Monday when they all find out they’re not SOC2 compliant
Here's the Friedman decision shooting down the DoD media badge policy: I sensed this would happen when I attended the hearing two weeks ago and the DOJ was pathetic in its defense: https://t.co/liSQrc7eZd
This is former @FCC Democrat Mike Copps blowing a gasket in 2007 over FCC efforts to allow TV stations to acquire their local newspaper (some followers might need to Google what a newspaper is): "We shed crocodile tears for the...
2,000 companies have sued for refunds on Trump’s illegal tariffs/import duties paid. Will and when will they be paid?
Bam. Department of Defense loses in its attempt to defend its unconstitutional new press policy. https://t.co/sOuyLwzWGG
Time to renew your trademark before it's too late?! Slow down and check that the trademark renewal isn't a scam. Here's what I received a few days ago, and how I figured out it wasn't legit: https://t.co/HDUOjUwIo1 #scams #spam #trademark...
To appeal or not to appeal (yet): The potentially politically dicey situation facing HHS over a preliminary court ruling this week on #ACIP and the rewritten childhood vaccination schedule. By @ChelseaCirruzzo. https://t.co/3P1PW1lDFT
FREIGHT BROKER SUED OVER CARGO THEFT: "Zurich American Insurance Company filed suit on March 18, 2026, in the US District Court for the Central District of California, targeting TForce Worldwide, Inc., a licensed freight forwarder it accuses of ignoring its...
Two versions of the Dalilah's bill are in Congress: House - Out of committee and up for a vote. Non-dom CDLs expire within 12 months. Senate - Still in committee. Non-dom CDLs expire within 6 months. TD Cowen estimates that...
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC announces Futures Commission Merchants can accept Bitcoin as margin collateral. https://t.co/oNOW4PB9po
Bill C-22, if passed, will permit the government to mandate a new massive surveillance infrastructure ordering tech companies and telcos to collect more data for the police. Is this something Canadians want?
attorneys publicly dragging AI while quietly running it through their CRM, marketing, and research tools need to be studied. nobody said it's a lawyer. but telling people to steer clear of it entirely while your firm's chatbot answers intake questions at...
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 The White House introduces a national policy framework to guide AI regulation. https://t.co/lLgBBS8OkL
This #WeekendReading: U.S. District Court has formally put an end to the Biden-era Retirement Security Rule (aka "Fiduciary Rule 2.0") after the Trump administration's Department of Labor elected not to defend the rule against lawsuits led by groups representing product...
It means the case has dragged on since 2023, and the judge isn’t having any more delays
The judge overseeing Brian Flores' discrimination lawsuit against the NFL denied the league's motion to stay the part of the case involving the Giants, Texans and Broncos while they appeal to the Supreme Court. she declined to reschedule upcoming deadlines...
Reddit $RDDT gets significant win against Anthropic The Court tentatively agreed that Reddit’s claims are "qualitatively different" from copyright infringement. Specifically, the judge noted that the claims arise from alleged:Violations of contractual restrictions on how and why data is accessed.Technical...
39% cap waiver is going to get litigated, I guess. Not sure what an Obama judge will say. Wait, actually I do know. Loper is a good point; MQD, probably not in play. IMO: Prof. Terry has a severe case...
Wall Street hates the Paramount-Warner deal. There's a shareholder derivative lawsuit here against the Ellisons, or maybe the deal doesn't even go through. https://t.co/ek5wSMzOXW https://t.co/fqN6mZnTz9
UPDATE: At 1:13am ET this morning, Gill's lawyers submitted a heated motion to the court, saying Krafton must explain why it shouldn't be sanctioned. Peeved at Krafton confirming "May" to IGN, then PC Gamer and Kotaku Says Gill hadn't had a...
“Public relations firm Global Situation Room on Thursday sent a cease and desist letter to Polymarket over the prediction market's planned bar pop-up in Washington. Polymarket has dubbed the bar "The Situation Room," which the consulting firm's attorney said infringes...
A man spends 170 days in a high-security jail. When he finally walks out, he doesn't ask for revenge. He asks for a deal. Last weekend, climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was suddenly released from prison. For nearly 6 months, he was locked up...
The offices of the state AGs and DirecTV said their lawsuits seeking to block the Nexstar-Tegna merger will continue to move forward, notwithstanding Nexstar’s announcement that the deal has closed. https://t.co/2Y4mvyhfS4 via @variety
