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16 Mar 2021, 2:37 am by Steve Lubet
Even so, the president would not have known the full story of the Gawker case, which only became public with the recent release of Ryan Holiday’s fascinating book, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
I'm continue to serialize my forthcoming UC Davis Law Review article What Cheap Speech Has Done: (Greater) Equality and Its Discontents; you can read the Introduction, but in this post I'm talking about how "cheap speech" has led to criminal remedies for the disclosure of private facts. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 7:57 am by Timothy B. Lee
Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski exits federal court in San Jose, California, on August 27, 2019. [read post]
20 Dec 2020, 4:16 pm by INFORRM
Tinkler v Ferguson, heard 16 December 2020 (McCombe, Peter Jackson and Dingemans LJJ). [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 5:44 am by Bob Ambrogi
The San Francisco-based company was started in 2011, picking up some $8 million in financing early on, backed by some big-name investors including PayPal cofounder and Facebook’s first investor Peter Thiel and Box founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 3:03 am by Liz Dunshee
– Multi-Class Cap Structure – In addition to the Class A common shares being resold in the offering, the company describes its Class B common stock (10 votes per share) and Class F common stock (a variable number of votes, all shares held in a voting trust established by co-founders Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen and Peter Thiel, and controlling up to 49.99% of total voting power). [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 3:27 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Silicon Valley company is known most for its controversial contract work with the US military and other clandestine government agencies as well as for being co-founded and initially funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel…” [read post]
30 May 2020, 7:53 am by bhorton
On the other hand, Trump favors policies that promote innovation, and one drug company developing psilocybin-based treatments, Compass Pathways, is backed by libertarian entrepreneur and Trump ally Peter Thiel. [read post]
17 May 2020, 7:04 pm by Tom Smith
During the last presidential campaign, Facebook board member and billionaire Peter Thiel was among Donald Trump’s most important backers, campaigning for the future president as a “proud,” openly gay supporter of the Republican nominee and even speaking at the Republican Party’s 2016 convention. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 8:54 am by Tom Smith
Among other billionaire influencers and backers to the private initiative include Peter Thiel, Jim Palotta, Michael Milken, Brian Sheth, and Steve Pagliuca, among others. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 4:33 pm by INFORRM
For example, as reported by Dario Milo and Johan Thiel, South Africa has published regulations under the Disaster Management Act 2002 which, under section 11(5), make it an offence, punishable by a fine or up to six months imprisonment, or both, to publish a statement through any medium with the intention to deceive about COVID-19, anyone’s COVID-19 infection status or government measures to address the pandemic. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
We’ve blogged about this one before, but according to this Marker article, the LTSE’s backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, & AOL founder Steve Case. [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 12:41 pm
The year 2019 is ending with the great rifts--opened in 2016, exposed in 2017, and acquiring a greater urgency and revealing the power of its consequences in 2018--now exposed. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 2:57 pm by Tom Smith
Peter Thiel: Well, again, there are a lot of qualifiers to this. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 10:37 am by Tom Smith
Or are we stuck in a rut, as Peter Thiel argues, persuasively, at least when you're listening to him. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 5:15 am by Jordan Rothman
[New York Post] * The former top lawyer for a firm co-founded by Peter Thiel is suing her ex-employer for wrongful termination. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 3:25 am by SHG
Ask Peter Thiel, who funded a defamation suit against Gawker that bankrupted the site and forced it to close down. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 10:23 am by Tom Smith
via messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com Peter Thiel -- what exactly is this guy's story? [read post]