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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/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/117257996650784977

THURGOOD MARSHALL is the best Supreme Court Justice of my lifetime and who Bush/Reagan, in their sociopathic malice, substituted with CLARENCE THOMAS

#LawFedi #USpol #history

Just like bans on abortion essentially impose conservative Christian ideology onto everyone regardless of their own faith,

bans on transgender medical care -- health care that all medical associations support -- does the same.

#law #lawfedi #Fedilaw #FediProf #LGBTQ #equality #Skrmetti #ChristianNationalism

Ohio Governor Signs Transgender Bathroom Bill https://buff.ly/41aK5VH

The grossly misnamed "Protect All Students Act" is govt bullying.
All in the service of Christian nationalism.

Shame on everyone involved.

#LGBTQ #equality #law #lawfedi #Fedilaw #fediprof

#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

I am about to read the Florida Supreme Court's decision eliminating abortion rights under the Florida Constitution, which has an explicit right to privacy and has until today been read to reach the right to abortion.

I suspect I will become very, very angry at this blatantly outcome driven decision

...

Yes, yes I am.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/01/us/florida-abortion-ban.html

#Law #lawfedi #FediLaw #FediProf #abortion #Florida

Florida Court Allows 6-Week Abortion Ban, but Voters Will Get to Weigh In https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/florida-abortion-law-supreme-court.html

Six week ban in Florida is constitutional?
What a disaster not just for Florida but the whole South.

Let's hope voters will amend the Florida Constitution AGAIN

#Florida #abortion #Fedilaw #LawFedi #FediProf #ProfFedi

Total remix on #CCPA & #CCPR vs. #Meta 🐻 vs. #finkD in a cartoon #meme

⚖️👩‍⚖️👨‍⚖️ #California #JiuJitSued #law #NOYBeu'D #GDPR'D in #EU #fedilaw #lawfedi

Original Totally from https://infosec.exchange/@faraiwe@mastodon.social/112083664674933892

Appeals court blocks Fla. ‘Stop Woke Act,’ says it’s a ‘First Amendment sin’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/04/appeals-court-blocks-florida-stop-woke-act/

It is hard to find a more paradigmatic violation of the free speech clause than the govt censoring a private speaker because the govt doesn't like what the speaker is saying

#fedilaw #fediprof #DeSantis #Florida #freespeech #speech #FirstAmendment #Florida #lawfedi

Alabama Rules Frozen Embryos Are Children, Raising Questions About Fertility Care https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/health/ivf-alabama-abortion.html

Alabama Supreme Court: “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory,”

Can we NOW agree that these abortion bans violate the Establishment Clause?

#LawFedi #Fedilaw #FediProf #Alabama #IVF #abortion #ChristianNationalism

📌 Every week, we highlight an #openaccess #ebook or #journal from our collection. This week’s pick:

➡️ Taking back control of the energy sector? A legal analysis of Brexit and the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement ⚡🔋🇬🇧🇪🇺 by Silke Goldberg.

🔗 https://books.ugp.rug.nl/index.php/ugp/catalog/book/140

This book focuses on the #legal consequences of #Brexit for the #energy sector both in the #UnitedKingdom and in the #EuropeanUnion. Published by UGP.

#librarycollection #openscience #law #LawFedi #lawstodon #UGP

Sorry -- I forgot to explain that the Supreme Court described the new standard for evaluating a Title VII religious accommodation claim and then sent the case back down to the lower courts.

So we don't yet know if the Christian postal work who wanted his Sabbath Sundays off will ultimately win or not.

But the new standard certainly helps.

#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #law #lawFedi #FediLaw #Fediprof #employment #religion

I must confess to some concern about what Groff's new standard means for the inevitable case where a religious employee insists on a Title VII right to misgender coworkers as a religious accommodation.

Will harm to the misgendered employees be considered to "affect the conduct of the business"?

#LGBTQ #equality #Groff #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #law #lawFedi #FediLaw #FediProf

Nevermind the every day benefits due to unconscious discrimination, so that even if work of white applicants is not actually better, their teachers may think it is, and grade it accordingly, and write recommendation based on this belief -- even if totally in good faith

#SupremeCourt #AffirmativeAction #SCOTUS #education #law #lawFedi #LawProf #FediLaw #FediProf

Nevermind the every day advantages white students have of good neighborhoods and good public schools.

It is not that their parents worked harder, but that the law favored their home ownership and states decided to fund schools based on that

#SupremeCourt #AffirmativeAction #SCOTUS #education #law #lawFedi #LawProf #FediLaw #FediProf

There is so much #affirmativeaction for white applicants, isn't there?

Legacy admissions favor them

Sports admissions (tennis, squash, golf, sailing, skiing, swimming, water polo, crew, fencing, hockey, lacrosse, rugby) overall favor white applicants

#SupremeCourt #AffirmativeAction #SCOTUS #education #law #lawFedi #LawProf #FediLaw #FediProf

In 303 Creative, a web designer argues a state public accommodations law that bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation violates her free speech by requiring her to make wedding websites for gay couples.

Though her opposition is rooted in her religious beliefs, her claim is a free speech one: she is being compelled to speak a message contrary to her viewpoint.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #law #FediLaw #FediProf #LawFedi #LGBTQ #equality #discrimination