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22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1] Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3] One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 11:55 am
John Ashcroft, the AG under President George W. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 8:58 am
" Defendant argues that Ashcroft v. [read post]
31 May 2023, 2:01 pm
Previously arcane arguments over the constitutionality of the public debt limit now make headlines.[1] At the same time, debate swirls around whether the President of the United States has the constitutional authority, resting on Section Four of the 14thamendment, to ignore the debt limit. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 6:30 am
, analyzed legal remedies for official misconduct by police and other “street-level bureaucrats” (in Michael Lipsky’s revealing phrase).[13] There I urged reformers to consider, among other things, the risk of a specific kind of over-deterrence of street-level police – the risk that police will use their ample discretion to engage in self-protective behavior that by minimizing their private risk of being sanctioned by their superiors or their potential victims… [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 10:52 am
"[O]n a separate front, Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussman headed a campaign to develop misleading evidence of a bogus 'back channel' connection between e-mail servers at Trump Tower and a Russian- owned bank. [read post]
24 Apr 2021, 6:07 am
" Judge Michael Baylson rejected defendant's argument:Following the reasoning in Hansler, the Court finds that dismissal of Plaintiff's FMLA interference and retaliation claims at this stage would be improper. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 5:01 am
Michael Gallagher and Ruben Gallego. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 7:12 pm
This commutation is supported by former Attorneys General Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, as well as former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 6:05 am
The Court of Appeals (Leval, Lohier and Katzmann) notes that Trump challenges the subpoenas not through a motion in criminal court to quash but through a civil lawsuit in which he must satisfy the heightened pleading requirements the Supreme Court set forth in Ashcroft v. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 12:04 pm
Despite the conclusion of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz that the FBI’s initiation of the Russia probe met legal standards, the report issued Monday by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) strongly criticized the FBI’s handling of one aspect of the probe: the request for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap of ex-Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page and subsequent renewals of the FISA. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Judge Rakoff should reject ICE’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
13 Oct 2019, 7:20 pm
If John is fired for dating Michael, and he would not have been fired if he were a woman, then John is fired because of his sex. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:48 am
" Ashcroft v. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 3:15 am
"That neatly brings together two memorable events from my first term at University, back in 1974: the opening of the new arts centre, when honorary degrees were conferred on Peggy Ashcroft, Eurgene Ionescu, Michael Tippett and Leonard Bernstein, and one of the earliest concerts there given by the Amadeus String Quartet, which included a Bartok quartet from which I learnt about that pizzicato. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 3:03 am
2018 was another busy busy year in the world of copyright, and a continuing global 'theme' was the ongoing battle between 'big tech' and 'big content', with the likes of Google and YouTube continuing to lobby extensively against planned reforms, bringing onboard (some) of the creative community - whilst the 'big content' (including film companies, music companies, the games sector and television) rolled out other creators - and finally seemed to be… [read post]
23 Dec 2018, 7:53 am
Last month, a US District Judge in Seattle ruled that FPCPA action by student loan debtors in Washington against TSI over false affidavits filed in collection actions after CFPB-TSI consent order may proceed in part; some specific claims, however, were found time-barred under FDCPA's one-years statute of limitations. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 5:31 am
When rights holders, for example, hear copyright exceptionalists like Michael Geist talk about “balance” they know it is usually a call to hollow out an exclusive right, or to oppose a right or new remedy, or to argue for a broad new exception or weaker remedies, or for uncompensated uses of copyright materials.[9] But, the concept of balance does not provide any useful guidance for copyright reform any more than balance provides any useful or principled basis for reforms to tax… [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 6:45 am
The Supreme Court cautioned against defining such right in general terms in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 6:11 am
By Michael Slenske and Molly Langmuir (New York Magazine)(interesting artwork at the link — warning: nudes!!) [read post]
