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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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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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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
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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. "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. 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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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.
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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/ -
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 -
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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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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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?
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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?
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A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/#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.
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A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/#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.
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US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20/ #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.
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US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20/ #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.
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It's just one big L after another for the Peado in the White House...
#USLaw #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #Trump #WhiteHouse #DavidHearn
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It's just one big L after another for the Peado in the White House...
#USLaw #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #Trump #WhiteHouse #DavidHearn
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#USLaw #Lawyers #Law #USpol
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨#ALERTIt will truly get much worse if #MAGA and #whitesupremacist Shrek are not stopped!! #TomHoman is threatening people living in the U.S. with BLOODSHED! #FIGHTBACK!!
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#USLaw #Lawyers #Law #USpol
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨#ALERTIt will truly get much worse if #MAGA and #whitesupremacist Shrek are not stopped!! #TomHoman is threatening people living in the U.S. with BLOODSHED! #FIGHTBACK!!
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I can't wait for this horrible company to collapse in on itself, nobody will shed a tear for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit
#Meta #Employment #AI #Technology #MarkZuckerberg #TechBros #USLaw
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I can't wait for this horrible company to collapse in on itself, nobody will shed a tear for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit
#Meta #Employment #AI #Technology #MarkZuckerberg #TechBros #USLaw
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Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/publishers-sue-google-gemini-ai-training
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 -
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/publishers-sue-google-gemini-ai-training
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 -
The Rapist (who is also the American President) has finally paid up!
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The Rapist (who is also the American President) has finally paid up!
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The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement https://www.wired.com/story/the-ftc-settlement-with-john-deere-is-a-huge-win-for-the-right-to-repair-movement/ #righttorepair #uslaw #uspol
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The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement https://www.wired.com/story/the-ftc-settlement-with-john-deere-is-a-huge-win-for-the-right-to-repair-movement/ #righttorepair #uslaw #uspol
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‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
Jenny Kleeman
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/12/mark-lanier-the-lawyer-who-took-on-meta-and-google-and-won-interview #uslaw #uspol -
‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
Jenny Kleeman
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/12/mark-lanier-the-lawyer-who-took-on-meta-and-google-and-won-interview #uslaw #uspol -
Everybody Hates Data Centres:
"The plaintiffs claim the center "generates significant noise pollution from diesel generators and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, including chillers, cooling towers, air-handling units, and condenser fans."
The suit further states that the noise produced by the facility is "not only excessive, but consistent and pervasive."
#Microsoft #DataCentres #USLaw #Wisconsin #TechBros #NerdReich #Technology
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Everybody Hates Data Centres:
"The plaintiffs claim the center "generates significant noise pollution from diesel generators and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, including chillers, cooling towers, air-handling units, and condenser fans."
The suit further states that the noise produced by the facility is "not only excessive, but consistent and pervasive."
#Microsoft #DataCentres #USLaw #Wisconsin #TechBros #NerdReich #Technology
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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116880332089335073
All power to these kids and their lawyers!
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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116880332089335073
All power to these kids and their lawyers!
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Update. Now Mike Johnson is echoing the Clarence Thomas line that birthright citizenship (aka birthright tourism) devalues citizenship.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5954053-mike-johnson-birthright-tourism-14th-amendment/ -
Update. Now Mike Johnson is echoing the Clarence Thomas line that birthright citizenship (aka birthright tourism) devalues citizenship.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5954053-mike-johnson-birthright-tourism-14th-amendment/ -
Update. I should have noted Justice Thomas said this in his dissent.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdfThomas: "The Citizenship Clause 'added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.'…Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship."
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Update. I should have noted Justice Thomas said this in his dissent.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdfThomas: "The Citizenship Clause 'added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.'…Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship."
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"Professor fired over #CharlieKirk post could receive $1.9M in settlement."
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5948386-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post-could-receive-1-9m-in-settlementThis is just the latest in a series. Universities that disciplined professors for criticizing Charlie Kirk knew or should have known that they were violating those professors' free-speech rights. But they did it to align themselves with the Trump admin, even on the wrong side of the law. Consider these settlements and damage awards to be a cowardice tax.
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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"Professor fired over #CharlieKirk post could receive $1.9M in settlement."
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5948386-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post-could-receive-1-9m-in-settlementThis is just the latest in a series. Universities that disciplined professors for criticizing Charlie Kirk knew or should have known that they were violating those professors' free-speech rights. But they did it to align themselves with the Trump admin, even on the wrong side of the law. Consider these settlements and damage awards to be a cowardice tax.
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update.
It follows that politicizing the #FTC feeds the growing European movement for #DataSovereignty -- the movement for #EU users, citizens, voters, companies, and governments to favor tech platforms based in the EU.
This is not the first way that #Trump and #Trumpism are shafting US tech companies. Here's a separate thread on another way.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116069608457156239 -
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It follows that politicizing the #FTC feeds the growing European movement for #DataSovereignty -- the movement for #EU users, citizens, voters, companies, and governments to favor tech platforms based in the EU.
This is not the first way that #Trump and #Trumpism are shafting US tech companies. Here's a separate thread on another way.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116069608457156239 -
#Republican protests about the #SCOTUS #citizenship ruling are eye-opening. From the NYTimes: "Kevin Roberts, the president of the #HeritageFoundation … [said that the decision] lessened the value of American citizenship."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
#USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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#Republican protests about the #SCOTUS #citizenship ruling are eye-opening. From the NYTimes: "Kevin Roberts, the president of the #HeritageFoundation...[said that the decision] lessened the value of American citizenship."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/30/us/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court