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  1. 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...)

    #LuigiMangione #USLaw

  2. 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...)

    #LuigiMangione #USLaw

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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?

    apnews.com/article/wildfires-s

    #SpokaneWildfire #Arson #Murder #MentalHealth #USLaw

  6. 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?

    apnews.com/article/wildfires-s

    #SpokaneWildfire #Arson #Murder #MentalHealth #USLaw

  7. Watching with interest:

    "Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
    retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31

    "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."

    #Litigation #Publishers #ScholComm #USLaw

  8. Watching with interest:

    "Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
    retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31

    "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."

    #Litigation #Publishers #ScholComm #USLaw

  9. Whoa. 😳 Ever heard of a system loophole where an infant's death can be exploited for identity acquisition? This video dives into a surprising, and frankly unsettling, detail about US records. Check it out... 🤯 #IdentityTheft #USLaw #Shorts

    youtube.com/watch?v=WL5_EjTxKAw

  10. Update. "Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win."
    insidehighered.com/news/facult

    "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

  11. Update. "Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court—and Win."
    insidehighered.com/news/facult

    "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

  12. Interesting case. #USA claims its agents can search an incoming US citizen's phone at the border because technically that citizen is not in US territory until he is cleared to enter the USA. So the USA admits here to applying its laws extraterritorially, since the US citizen is not in the US. That act itself (of seizing and searching the phone outside of its jurisdiction) is illegal, and illegally obtained evidence I thought was inadmissible in US courts. In fact the USA surely is subject to a charge of theft (and possibly other charges) in the bordering country or the country of origin of the flight?

    Why I am not a lawyer, I guess.

    techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-a

    #USpol #USImmigration #USLaw #Border

  13. Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement theguardian.com/technology/202
    Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work #copyright #AI #publishing #settlement #uslaw #uspol

  14. Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement theguardian.com/technology/202
    Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work #copyright #AI #publishing #settlement #uslaw #uspol

  15. 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."
    apnews.com/article/california-

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  16. 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."
    apnews.com/article/california-

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  17. The #Trump admin wants to stop collecting data on employment discrimination, making it much harder to enforce laws against employment discrimination.
    apnews.com/article/eeoc-discri

    "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.

    #Data #EEOC #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  18. The #Trump admin wants to stop collecting data on employment discrimination, making it much harder to enforce laws against employment discrimination.
    apnews.com/article/eeoc-discri

    "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.

    #Data #EEOC #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  19. A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
    techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anth

    #Anthropic is in the clear for training #Claude on millions of books without permission or payment. However, it's liable for obtaining many of those books illegally, and its settlement of those claims (about $3k/title) was approved by the court.

    So far this decision only applies in the Northern District of California. But it breaks the ice and will (as lawyers say) be "persuasive but not binding" in other districts.

    #Books #Copyright #FairUse #USLaw

  20. A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
    techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anth

    #Anthropic is in the clear for training #Claude on millions of books without permission or payment. However, it's liable for obtaining many of those books illegally, and its settlement of those claims (about $3k/title) was approved by the court.

    So far this decision only applies in the Northern District of California. But it breaks the ice and will (as lawyers say) be "persuasive but not binding" in other districts.

    #Books #Copyright #FairUse #USLaw

  21. US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit reuters.com/world/us-judge-app #copyright #AI #USlaw #USpol The judge said that complaints about the settlement's size were "not grounded in ⁠a realistic ​assessment of the overall risks and rewards of a trial," and ​awarded the attorneys more than $101 million of the $187.5 million they requested in fees.

  22. US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit reuters.com/world/us-judge-app #copyright #AI #USlaw #USpol The judge said that complaints about the settlement's size were "not grounded in ⁠a realistic ​assessment of the overall risks and rewards of a trial," and ​awarded the attorneys more than $101 million of the $187.5 million they requested in fees.

  23. Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training theguardian.com/books/2026/jul
    Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’. No doubt Google will be making arguments about fair use in the future. #uslaw #uspol #copyright #publishing

  24. Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training theguardian.com/books/2026/jul
    Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’. No doubt Google will be making arguments about fair use in the future. #uslaw #uspol #copyright #publishing