#uslaw — Public Fediverse posts
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Meta reaches $24b settlement over teen social media addiction https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/meta-reaches-24-billion-settlement-over-teen-social-media-addiction-20260826-p60rwr.html #uslaw #uspol
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Social Media Addiction Settlement
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-settlement
US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on nighttime use. #uslaw #uspol -
"Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen."
https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christPS: In most states, religious belief is not a defense to #ChildAbuse. I discuss some of the cases and statutes in this 1992 lecture.
https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120378-9650-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3bBut #Idaho is one state that stands apart. And now a growing number of conservative and Christian-nationalist judges reinterpret the #FirstAmendment to put the free-exercise clause ahead of the establishment clause.
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Fucking Texas...
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#MINNESOTA: #OrderForInCameraReview (#DOJ must turn over all grand jury materials used to indict #journalists #GeorgiaFort and #DonLemon as well as many others)
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#ALERT 🚨🚨
Episode 366 :#JusticeDepartment announces 1 000 'election minitors' 🤨 for #midterms
#VoterSuppression by intimidation
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Social media on trial as $200bn case against Facebook and Instagram begins https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/meta-facebook-instagram-trial
Twenty-nine US states are seeking huge damages, claiming Meta’s platforms were addictive by design. #uslaw #uspol -
Harvard to pay $53m over theft and sale of human remains from medical school https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/18/harvard-human-remains-lawsuit #uslaw #bioethics
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Update. "US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years."
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/08/us-civil-rights-agency-moves-to-end-demographic-data-collection-after-60-years/"How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The #Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, moving to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."
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‘Preserve the stuff we own’: how right-to-repair laws are surging across the US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/right-to-repair-laws
Federal and state lawmakers have proposed several bills to make it easier for owners to fix items such as phones, cars, wheelchairs and more. #uslaw #uspol #righttorepair -
I wonder if the offer given to Luigi Mangione was "accept this deal or we kill you, you will not be allowed to win in Court"
Just going by my degree in US TV Law ...
(Seen all of The Good Wife, etc...)
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Microsoft failed to respond to formal legal requests submitted since June 27, 2026, regarding the precise legal justification for denying access to Outlook accounts and Microsoft payment services holding financial assets, maintaining complete silence after one boilerplate response.
@microsoft @msftnews @MSFTstories
#Microsoft #Outlook #DigitalAssets #FinancialSecurity #Censorship #DataPrivacy #HumanRights #Accountability #EULaw #USLaw #TechCensorship #ConsumerRights #Privacy #CyberSecurity
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Medium removed our public whistleblowing post without legal justification, failing to cite US/EU laws when formally challenged, then blocked our communication channels entirely. The original post is now inaccessible: https://medium.com/@guleposta1970/exclusive-dossier-unmasking-institutional-racism-hate-crimes-across-german-courts-hospitals-10471458bac7
@medium @journ_online @FreeSpeech @censorship
#Medium #Whistleblowing #FreeSpeech #Censorship #HumanRights #Transparency #Journalism #Accountability #PressFreedom #InfoSec #Privacy #OpenSource #TechCensorship #DigitalRights #EULaw #USLaw
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How do we deal with people like this during Climate Change?
He was in jail for ten years for murdering his dad over some cereal, at some point this man's freedom is a burden on everyone else, but what do we do? Lock him up forever? -
#Bootlicker!' Fedup up prosecutorTEARS INTO #ToddBlanche in STUNNING scene
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0CRLROSRqo
#law #USLaw #DougBurgum #JaninePirro #Oathkeepers #ProudBoys #FarRight
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Watching with interest:
"Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/"A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant #APCs. The case…claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa [Taylor & Francis] forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims to the government for reimbursement through article fees up to 10 times the cost of processing the articles."
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@OregonLive/117014810805899348
Her and Donald Trump....avoid paying what the Court has ordered them to multiple times.
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Update. "Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/07/30/fired-over-speech-professors-take-their-employers-court"The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twice before punishing extramural speech."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Finally.
"Federal agency drops subpoena seeking list of Jews at Penn."
https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/07/penn-eeoc-antisemitism-resolution-subpoena-trump#Academia #Antisemitism #EEOC #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Now the #Trump Dept of Education wants to stop collecting similar data on discrimination in vocational education.
* Dept of Ed proposal
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/23/2026-14892/rescinding-guidelines-for-eliminating-discrimination-and-denial-of-services-on-the-basis-of-race* Coverage in The Hill (@TheHill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5989158-education-department-rescinds-discrimination-policy/ -
Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/bloomsbury-book-publisher-anthropic-copyright-settlement
Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work #copyright #AI #publishing #settlement #uslaw #uspol -
Update. "Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities. It’s an admission that lawyers for the research professors say is proof that the agencies illegally cancelled nearly $2 billion in grants. And that’s a major development in a lawsuit filed by UC researchers against the Trump administration to permanently get their grants back."
https://apnews.com/article/california-research-grants-terminated-keywords-lawsuit-a0ddb01413ecb68d9668490a20be6207#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump admin wants to stop collecting data on employment discrimination, making it much harder to enforce laws against employment discrimination.
https://apnews.com/article/eeoc-discrimination-dei-andrea-lucas-2f521d784a9d0376416499066dc9f178"How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, moving to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."
PS: Individuals could still sue for employment discrimination. But without data to show "patterns and practices", it's very hard to show intent or shift the burden of proof to the employer.
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@politico/politics-u9ikh4qkz/-/a-6mNAdywHRweZ7SOfQzyvMg%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0
lol, didn't think that one through, did he?