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  1. 500 Law Firms Fight Back Against Trump Bully Tactics

    Trump's war on law firms for daring to represent clients he doesn't personally like is getting pushback from other law firms.

    freezenet.ca/500-law-firms-fig

    #LawAndTechnology #News #AmicusBrief #court #filing #LegalEagle #politics #Trump #US

  2. Amazon’s TikTok Bid Sparks Booksellers’ Opposition; Publishers File Brief Against Meta: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

    We end the week with a round-up that begins with a story I seem to have missed when it first broke at the start of April. It’s an interesting and highly relevant twist in the TikTok ownership saga. You will recall that…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/amazo

    #AmazonTikTokbid #amicusbrief #booksellersopposition #BookTok #FairUse
    @indieauthors

  3. Amazon’s TikTok Bid Sparks Booksellers’ Opposition; Publishers File Brief Against Meta: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

    We end the week with a round-up that begins with a story I seem to have missed when it first broke at the start of April. It’s an interesting and highly relevant twist in the TikTok ownership saga. You will recall that…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/amazo

    #AmazonTikTokbid #amicusbrief #booksellersopposition #BookTok #FairUse
    @indieauthors

  4. Amazon’s TikTok Bid Sparks Booksellers’ Opposition; Publishers File Brief Against Meta: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

    We end the week with a round-up that begins with a story I seem to have missed when it first broke at the start of April. It’s an interesting and highly relevant twist in the TikTok ownership saga. You will recall that…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/amazo

    #AmazonTikTokbid #amicusbrief #booksellersopposition #BookTok #FairUse
    @indieauthors

  5. Amazon’s TikTok Bid Sparks Booksellers’ Opposition; Publishers File Brief Against Meta: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

    We end the week with a round-up that begins with a story I seem to have missed when it first broke at the start of April. It’s an interesting and highly relevant twist in the TikTok ownership saga. You will recall that…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/amazo

    #AmazonTikTokbid #amicusbrief #booksellersopposition #BookTok #FairUse
    @indieauthors

  6. Canva Unveils AI Tools, Including Image Generation; Law Professors Challenge Meta’s Copyright Use: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

    This week’s AI news focuses on two issues of great interest to indie authors. I will start with Canva. In part because I haven’t talked about them for a while. And partly because this news picks up…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/canva

    #amicusbrief #CanvaAItools #imagegeneration #indieauthors #Metacopyrightcase
    @indieauthors

  7. These critical roles in support of a free and independent press which often relies on information from sensitive sources would be adversely impacted by the President's executive orders targeting law firms like Perkins Coie.

    #amicusbrief #journalists #sensitivesources #pressfreedom #freepress #independentpress #lawyers

  8. EFF Joins #AmicusBrief Supporting #PerkinsCoie Law Firm Against #Unconstitutional #ExecutiveOrder

    EFF has joined the #ACLU and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its past work on #VotingRights lawsuits and its representation of the President’s prior political opponents.
    #trump #maga #takeover

    eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/eff-

  9. #SFC Files #AmicusBrief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7 - Software Freedom Conservancy

    SFC filed an amicus brief in the ongoing case of #Neo4j , Inc. v. #PureThink , LLC, which is now appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The appeal focuses on a downstream licensee's right under the Affero #GPL , v 3 (& similar rights under GPLv3 & LGPLv3) to remove “Further Restrictions” — even when such restrictions are put in place by original licensors.

    sfconservancy.org/news/2025/ja

  10. Crypto titans back clothing firm’s suit against SEC’s ‘unwritten’ rules - Coinbase, a16z, Multicoin Capital, and Paradigm have filed an amicus bri... - cointelegraph.com/news/crypto- #amicusbrief #enforcement #securities #coinbase #lawsuit #beba #a16z #sec

  11. Jamelle Bouie of the NYT, wrote a great piece that considers the #AmicusBrief as well as 2 others filed in recent days & the “arguments leveled against the Colorado court’s decision &, by extension, its interpretation of Section 3 of the #14thAmendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

    #SCOTUS #law #legal #History #2024election #Trump #Insurrection #Jan6
    nytimes.com/2024/01/30/opinion

  12. The authors of the #AmicusBrief are (I edited their credentials as they’re extensive)

    Jill Lepore, Professor of History, Harvard University
    David Blight, Professor of History & African American Studies at Yale University
    Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University
    John Fabian Witt, Professor of Law at Yale Law School

    #SCOTUS #amicus #law #legal #History #2024election #Trump #Insurrection #Jan6 #14thAmendment

  13. "Without some form of moderation, online communities die."

    Laws in the states of Texas and Florida could affect how we all interact with the Internet. They seek to eliminate or strictly limit a platform’s ability to moderate content.

    Good for trolls, bad for the rest of us.

    Today we filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate these laws ⬇️

    internetsociety.org/blog/2023/

    #MoodyvNetChoice #NetChoicevPaxton #NetChoice #amicus #amicusbrief #Internet #SupremeCourt

  14. Crypto advocates file amicus brief to address users' Fourth Amendment privacy rights - The amicus brief was filed to support an appeal against the Inter... - cointelegraph.com/news/crypto- #defieducationfund #u.s.appealscourt #u.s.constitution #fourthamendment #amicusbrief #advocacy #searches #seizures

  15. Law Professors Blast SEC’s Concept of Investment Contract in Amicus Brief - Six professors of law have issued an amicus brief in favor of Coinbase, blasting t... - news.bitcoin.com/law-professor #u.s.securitiesandexchangecommission(sec) #stephenm.bainbridge #investmentcontract #lawrencehamermesh #jonathanr.macey #m.toddhenderson #seanj.griffith #tamarfrankel #amicusbrief #coinbase #news

  16. Law Professors Blast SEC’s Concept of Investment Contract in Amicus Brief - Six professors of law have issued an amicus brief in favor of Coinbase, blasting t... - news.bitcoin.com/law-professor #u.s.securitiesandexchangecommission(sec) #stephenm.bainbridge #investmentcontract #lawrencehamermesh #jonathanr.macey #m.toddhenderson #seanj.griffith #tamarfrankel #amicusbrief #coinbase #news

  17. Law Professors Blast SEC’s Concept of Investment Contract in Amicus Brief - Six professors of law have issued an amicus brief in favor of Coinbase, blasting t... - news.bitcoin.com/law-professor #u.s.securitiesandexchangecommission(sec) #stephenm.bainbridge #investmentcontract #lawrencehamermesh #jonathanr.macey #m.toddhenderson #seanj.griffith #tamarfrankel #amicusbrief #coinbase #news