#lawfedi — Public Fediverse posts

this is what an unwanted secession, forced by law and federal funding cuts, looks like:

❝ Starting October 1, the federal government will cover only 25% of state and local administrative costs for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, down from the 50% match it has provided for years.❞

» Westchester Food Banks Warn $168M SNAP Cost Shift Will Empty Shelves https://hoodline.com/2026/09/westchester-food-banks-warn-168m-snap-cost-shift-will-empty-shelves/

#NYS #LawFedi #USpol #SNAP #USCivilWar2

❝ The attorneys general allege that the Trump administration’s new interpretations of the federal Endangered Species Act amount to “greenlighting the destruction of endangered species’ habitats” and “permitting commercial developers and fossil fuel companies a pathway to access endangered animals’ habitats.” The lawsuits ask the courts to block the new rules and restore the full protections of the 50-year-old endangered species law. ❞
https://gothamist.com/news/closer-to-extinction-ny-fights-trump-on-changes-to-endangered-species-act

#LawFedi #NYS #NewYork

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Should I trust #AI to describe my patent claim construction to the court?

A lawyer in DE patent case informed the court and opposing counsel that his contribution to a Joint Claim Construction brief “featured multiple errors due to his use of generative artificial intelligence.” In response to a show cause order, the attorney ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.85202/gov.uscourts.ded.85202.115.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can the government order an AUSA to pass on false information to the court?

An immigration detainee submitted a habeas petition in federal court in Western PA. In response to the petition, the government was supposed to prove a significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future based on a 2000 removal order. Instead, the government submitted the declaration of a deportation officer that “lack[ed] ... (cont.)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72120964/bo-v-bondi/ #law #lawfedi

New blogpost:

"Initial thoughts on the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Bill"

I try to think the best of people and their intentions, so this might be just one big mistake, but honestly, wow...

I cannot imagine someone attempting, with a straight face, to impose strict criminal liability on cafe and pub owners, for what their customers say.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/09/initial-thoughts-on-the-social-media-platforms-ofcom-licensing-bill/

#OnlineSafetyAct #lawfedi #blog

The Roberts Court has issued a shadow docket ruling in USPS v. California, rejecting the Trump regime’s request for a stay of lower court judges’ preliminary injunctions prohibiting USPS from implementing a Final Rule meant to take over vote-from-home (absentee/mail voting). 1/ #LawFedi

25 Years of Mass Surveillance is Enough

From @lawfare and @eff

“This pipeline from private collection to governmental collection means that as companies collect more information for #surveillance capitalism purposes, more is available to law enforcement as well.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough

#DataPrivacy #privacy #freedom #liberty #USpol #law #lawfedi

25 Years of Mass Surveillance is Enough

From @lawfare and @eff

“This pipeline from private collection to governmental collection means that as companies collect more information for #surveillance capitalism purposes, more is available to law enforcement as well.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough

#DataPrivacy #privacy #freedom #liberty #USpol #law #lawfedi

25 Years of Mass Surveillance is Enough

From @lawfare and @eff

“This pipeline from private collection to governmental collection means that as companies collect more information for #surveillance capitalism purposes, more is available to law enforcement as well.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough

#DataPrivacy #privacy #freedom #liberty #USpol #law #lawfedi

25 Years of Mass Surveillance is Enough

From @lawfare and @eff

“This pipeline from private collection to governmental collection means that as companies collect more information for #surveillance capitalism purposes, more is available to law enforcement as well.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough

#DataPrivacy #privacy #freedom #liberty #USpol #law #lawfedi

25 Years of Mass Surveillance is Enough

From @lawfare and @eff

“This pipeline from private collection to governmental collection means that as companies collect more information for #surveillance capitalism purposes, more is available to law enforcement as well.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough

#DataPrivacy #privacy #freedom #liberty #USpol #law #lawfedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117270402839653485

As my question to Matt indicates, the Roberts Court is increasingly in a pickle. Every lower court that has ruled on the USPS Rule has now resoundingly decided it is likely unlawful and issued or upheld prelim injunctions against its implementation. 1/ #Lawfedi

The D.C. District Court, which had previously rejected challenges to Trump/USPS effort to take over vote-from-home (“mail-in” voting) as unripe, has now joined the Mass. District Court and 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, and decided Trump/USPS are acting unlawfully and unconstitutionally. 1/ #LawFedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If my lawyer didn’t do anything about opposing counsel’s #AI hallucinations, should I get a new trial?

An AL plaintiff sued his former employer for race discrimination. After a jury trial, judgment entered for the employer/defendant. The plaintiff was represented at trial, but after trial he moved pro se for a new trial.

One of the grounds for the plaintiff's new trial motion was that opposing counsel had cited ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.86124/gov.uscourts.almd.86124.127.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If my lawyer didn’t do anything about opposing counsel’s #AI hallucinations, should I get a new trial?

An AL plaintiff sued his former employer for race discrimination. After a jury trial, judgment entered for the employer/defendant. The plaintiff was represented at trial, but after trial he moved pro se for a new trial.

One of the grounds for the plaintiff's new trial motion was that opposing counsel had cited ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.86124/gov.uscourts.almd.86124.127.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If my lawyer didn’t do anything about opposing counsel’s #AI hallucinations, should I get a new trial?

An AL plaintiff sued his former employer for race discrimination. After a jury trial, judgment entered for the employer/defendant. The plaintiff was represented at trial, but after trial he moved pro se for a new trial.

One of the grounds for the plaintiff's new trial motion was that opposing counsel had cited ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.86124/gov.uscourts.almd.86124.127.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If my lawyer didn’t do anything about opposing counsel’s #AI hallucinations, should I get a new trial?

An AL plaintiff sued his former employer for race discrimination. After a jury trial, judgment entered for the employer/defendant. The plaintiff was represented at trial, but after trial he moved pro se for a new trial.

One of the grounds for the plaintiff's new trial motion was that opposing counsel had cited ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.86124/gov.uscourts.almd.86124.127.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If my lawyer didn’t do anything about opposing counsel’s #AI hallucinations, should I get a new trial?

An AL plaintiff sued his former employer for race discrimination. After a jury trial, judgment entered for the employer/defendant. The plaintiff was represented at trial, but after trial he moved pro se for a new trial.

One of the grounds for the plaintiff's new trial motion was that opposing counsel had cited ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.86124/gov.uscourts.almd.86124.127.0.pdf
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can I assert privilege over my pre-deposition conversations with my client’s former employee?

A former employee sued her employer in NY state. Plaintiff deposed another former employee. Although the former employee witness was not represented by the employer’s counsel, he spoke to the employer’s counsel prior to the deposition. When the plaintiff’s counsel asked about these conversations, the employer’s ... (cont.)

https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2026/2026-ny-slip-op-50388-u.html
#law #lawfedi

There is a new toolkit

> to help law schools, law firms and other organisations design and develop effective partnerships and initiatives that widen access to the solicitors' profession for people from underrepresented backgrounds.

I don't know how many, if any, people who'd like to be a solicitor in England and Wales are in the fediverse, but if you are one of them, I'm always happy to find time to have a chat (audio or video, as you wish) about my experience, talk about "commercial awareness" etc.

(I can't offer placements, work experience/shadowing, and the like.)

#lawfedi #DEI

https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/resources/equality-diversity/toolkit-partnerships-initiatives/

Hey #lawFedi:

How many ways besides libel can a false statement, whether on its own, or in combination with something else, be made to constitute civil or criminal offence? (What suffices to constitute fraud? negligent misrepresentation? breach of contract or warranty? tortuous interference? perjury? etc.…?)

Suppose a rudimentary open-source #DRM were to be implemented in web servers and web browsers (or a web-browser add-on), such that the key to the TPM comprises proof of the user's agreement to and utterance of legal statements to the effect that they're not using "generative AI" (plagiarism synthesis) to interact with the site, will not use it during that interaction, and will not allow any #genAI software to access information from it or disclose that information to any entity that would? Suppose the ToS for the site were to require that perfunctory DRM.

Would there be a way to exploit #DMCA1201 and/or the #CFAA to make it an offence (whether a crime, or a viable cause to sue) to bypass that DRM in order to interact with the website?

Maybe @lessig or #EbenMoglen (anyone know him?) could draft something, to do to AI, through inversion of intent of those laws, as #copyleft to #copyright?

@mgeist Would those laws correspond approximately to CMA §41 and to §342 of the Criminal Code?

@RitaWerner @verfassungsblog

#DEpol #LawFedi #Legal #Bundestag

(5/n)

...überproportional viele #Bundestagsabgeordnete selbst Juristen sind.👈

Aus meiner Sicht werden durch dies Maßnahme der "#Hausordnung" dadurch zumindest einzelne massiv in ihren Rechten beschnitten.

/s: Wer weiß, was man bei einer derzeit nicht unwahrscheinlichen, künftigen #AfD-Regierung nicht mehr aufhängen darf? Ein #Kruzifix sicherlich...

@RitaWerner
@verfassungsblog

#DEpol #LawFedi #Legal #Bundestag

(1/n)

"*#Bundestagsabgeordnete müssen Flaggen in ihren Büros abhängen – Verwaltung spricht von „Routinevorgang“*

Mit Verweis auf die Hausordnung... "

Hm, ist das nicht evtl. ein *rechtswidriger* Vorgang?!?

#MarkusSöder darf lt. BayVerfG weiter #Kruzifixe aufhängen, #Mandatsträger in ihren Büros jedoch keine Objekte, die ihre #Weltanschauung widerspiegeln?!?

In der hier gefundenen juristischen...

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/jagd-auf-regenbogenfahnen-bundestagsabgeordnete-mussen-flaggen-in-ihren-buros-abhangen--verwaltung-spricht-von-routinevorgang-13996319.html

#Dolphinately 🐬 a ⌨️🤝💻🤝⚖️ a ⌨️ #TheEverythingApp 🤝 #WebBrowser 🤝 #browserhistory 🔍🧐 ⚖️⌨️💻🐬🔍🐬 kinda settlement

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/7/23823878/google-privacy-tracking-incognito-mode-lawsuit-summary-judgment-denied

#ComputerHistory #Software #keyboard

#Google vs. #Microsoft

#infosec #lawfedi #fedilaw

In this week's Insights I talked about the end of the non-habitual resident (#NHR) program in #Portugal. I highlight it as an example of a pitfall of success -- it worked insofar as it did exactly what it was intended to. In so doing, it exacerbated wealth inequality and the housing crisis.

But no one should pretend those were unintended side effects.

#lawfedi @law

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/week-in-insights-a-portugal-tax-policy-shows-pitfalls-of-success

Judge #BerylHowell sanctions #Giuliani in connection with his defamation of #Georgia election workers #RubyFreeman and #WandreaArShayeMoss. Giuliani failed to provide to them information he was required to deliver for purposes of damages phase of litigation. Howell concludes Giuliani is trying to avoid disclosures that would hurt him other ongoing civil and criminal suits against him. Shorter: the judge isn’t having any of Rudy’s nonsense. #LawFedi (gift link: https://wapo.st/44yrzVx)

@JMarkOckerbloom #lawfedi I’m not an education lawyer; does #FERPA not cover test scores?

Given the insidious stranglehold corporations have on American democracy (courtesy, in large part, of Citizen United) it’s hard not to feel like the success or failure of this new unionization effort and reinvigoration of the labor movement will have major implications for our current democratic crisis.

#starbucksunionization #UPSStrike #WGAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #unions #labor #democracy #workersrights #LawFedi

Ningbo has responded to BirdRock's motion for fees (as you might imagine, Ningbo is opposed): https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.626222/gov.uscourts.flsd.626222.61.0.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66694123/xyz-corporation-v-the-individuals-partnerships-and-unincorporated/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

For prior discussions of this case and BirdRock's motion, see: #BirdRock

#DesignPatents #ConceptFallacy #ScheduleA #Litigation #LawFedi

One of the defendants, Waxman Sales (d/b/a BirdRock Home) is fighting back in a mass #ScheduleA case over snow brushes.

And they hired K&L Gates.

Motion for fees: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.626222/gov.uscourts.flsd.626222.56.0.pdf

Motion to increase bond: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.626222/gov.uscourts.flsd.626222.55.0.pdf

https://design-law.tumblr.com/post/714574314505158656/does-this-snow-brush-infringe-this-extremely

#BirdRock #DesignPatents #ConceptFallacy #Litigation #LawFedi #ScheduleAFightsBack

From the #innocenceproject. Next week, the Exonerated Five will be honored in Central Park — the very place their lives were changed. Now, three decades after that night, they're calling on New York to pass laws to prevent anyone else from experiencing that same injustice. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/arts/design/central-park-five-gate.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUaASbcR8Q86RGLnvnAxvs3i3niNiGRDC5L1edQDYme9gLCbLZuIdsv2jDRDPlwDIgSft0ghOlOIx4qDACyvpqPnJlCc35t9ty4Ujpzj5mUB_VlqG-2K2Owdr06nre24RzWYGLuDfaMwmRhcFg-2eZtclGt2H0Lz76UUbImn4kjgopyQ8xyVjwCZyKVv_L3Cx8YOd2OahzU6gBeSPgOEHiI3obas-RcBV0UXVHWT3p_4nI_68dcPr4VPKX4Kh0jeKnukN2It0HINsVkpjXVA7c4yGQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #innocence #exoneratedfive #law #lawfedi #NewYorkCity #CentralPark #WrongfullyConvicted

Attending (via livestream) the Symposium on Constitutionalism & Legitimacy in Asia and the Pacific jointly organized by the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law & the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies, in Tokyo, Japan. Kudos to prime mover Prof Bryan Tiojanco JSD for an excellent conference. Well done, Bo!

#Constitutionalism #Legitimacy #ConstitutionalLaw #Law #LawFedi #LawProfs

Attending (online) the Symposium on Constitutionalism & Legitimacy in Asia and the Pacific jointly organized by the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law & the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies, in Tokyo, Japan. Kudos to prime mover Prof Bryan Tiojanco JSD for an excellent conference. Well done, Bo!

#Constitutionalism #Legitimacy #ConstitutionalLaw #Law #LawFedi #LawProfs

While I’m thinking of scholarship about #legislatures, here’s an article by my friend and colleague Robin West, advancing the idea of a “legislated constitution” rather than an “adjudicated constitution.” Particularly resonant today, with U.S. Senate passage of Respect for Marriage Act. https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/637/ #lawFedi #constitutionalism