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29 Feb 2024, 7:15 pm
Alan S. [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 3:15 am
Yesterday, Alan Dye provided an update on the bill’s status on the Section16.net Blog. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 11:30 am
Alan White (Wiley Blackwell, 2023), pp. 406-413)... [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 4:00 am
Buffalo News – Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and Alan Feuer (New York Times) | Published: 8/16/2023 After eight years of pushing back at a number of institutions in the U.S., Donald Trump is now probing the limits of what the criminal justice system will tolerate and the lines that District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan sought to lay out about what he can say about the election interference case she is overseeing. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
You might remember Alan Turing from “The Imitation Game” movie and the cracking of the Enigma code. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 4:56 pm
Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of... [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 5:01 am
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and Oliver Edwards are defending against the claims (in Joe Johnson v. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 1:38 am
By Faraz Siddiqui & Alan M. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 2:51 am
Alan Feuer, William K. [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:00 am
Rahul Chandhok told a grand jury that Becker gave him a confidential copy of a watchdog agency’s report accusing the 49ers of having undue influence over government in Santa Clara, home of publicly owned Levi’s Stadium. [read post]
19 May 2023, 2:03 pm
Anderson, Quinta Jurecic, Alan Rozenshtein, and Benjamin Wittes analyzed the Supreme Court’s rulings on companion cases Taamneh v. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 7:13 am
Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, decided last Thursday by Judge Alan Johnson (D. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 1:02 pm
A very interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen, Consumer Law & Policy Blog), which I reproduce with his permission: It was almost twenty years ago that Barbra Streisand filed a lawsuit that attempted to block access to a photograph of her oceanfront estate, bringing unwanted attention to the photo and leading to her being enshrined by Techdirt's Mike Masnick in tech/legal terminology as the progenitor of "the Streisand Effect. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 11:26 am
Levy extrapolates from her research on truck drivers to consider the impact of surveillance methods in all types of workplaces, the road, policing and modern sports. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 7:24 am
Key Findings The value-added tax (VAT) is a major source of revenue for EU countries and is one of the EU’s own resources. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 4:26 am
Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer report for the New York Times. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 5:42 am
Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy reports: A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law to suppress articles it didn’t... [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 2:57 am
The keynote speaker, UK Information Commissioner John Edwards will be joined by Professor Victoria Nash of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Lilian Edwards of Newcastle University and the Ada Lovelace Institute, Maurice Frankel of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, Alan Payne KC and Aaron Moss of 5 Essex Court and Stewart Room, NADPO’s president. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 7:01 am
Key Findings Carbon leakage occurs when a climate policy in one jurisdiction leads to emissions-producing activity simply shifting to a different jurisdiction. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 1:31 pm
(A podcast featuring an in-depth discussion of AMG Capital Management and its aftermath with Bikram Bandy, FTC Chief Litigation Counsel, Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Ballard Spahr’s Alan Kaplinsky, is available here.) [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 12:41 pm
Thanks to Paul Alan Levy for the pointer. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 4:00 am
Trump Kept More Than 700 Pages of Classified Documents, Letter from National Archives Says Minneapolis Star Tribune – Alan Feuer (New York Times) | Published: 8/23/2022 Donald Trump took more than 700 pages of classified documents, including some related to the nation’s most covert intelligence operations, to his private club and residence in Florida when he left the White House, according to a letter the National Archives sent to his lawyers. [read post]
23 Jul 2022, 9:51 am
Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson discussed the debate and complexities around combating child sexual abuse on end-to-end encrypted services. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 2:25 pm
Daphne Keller and Max Levy considered the possible avenues for platform transparency regulations—particularly in light of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, privacy concerns, and the First Amendment, among other principles. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 4:20 am
Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman report for the New York Times. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm
[Editor’s Note: This post is based on a comment letter submitted to the U.S. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 8:10 am
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company... [read post]
19 May 2022, 5:01 am
Cal.) about this amicus brief from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen).and Phillip R. [read post]
6 May 2022, 4:00 am
Former Top State Official to Plead Guilty for Helping Qatar Yahoo News – Alan Sunderman and Jim Mustian (Associated Press) | Published: 4/27/2022 A former top-ranking State Department official will plead guilty for improperly helping Qatar influence U.S. policy and not disclosing on an ethics form gifts he received from a disgraced political fundraiser. [read post]
5 May 2022, 2:20 pm
Some years ago, Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and I wrote extensively about "Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed. [read post]
3 May 2022, 1:55 am
Forty-four U.S. states and the District of Columbia also levy their own corporate income tax,[6] and factoring in the average rate across states, the combined U.S. corporate tax rate reaches 25.8 percent. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 4:36 am
Russia announced yesterday that it had imposed retaliatory sanctions on U.S. members of Congress in response to similar sanctions levied against more than 300 Russian lawmakers last month. [read post]
7 Apr 2022, 10:36 am
From Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) (bullets and some paragraph breaks added): [A] controversy over Twitter postings by CallMeMoneyBags … presents the latest challenge in the Northern District of California to the well established rule, first established in 2001 in Dendrite International v. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 5:01 am
" Thanks to legal challenges by Gray, Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen, Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other advocates, the courts eventually developed legal standards that require plaintiffs in John Doe subpoena cases to demonstrate strong cases and fulfill procedural requirements before obtaining a speaker's identifying information. [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 5:01 am
A very interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen); here's the opening paragraph: This is a sad tale of hypocrisy on the part of a group whose litigation over the past eighty-five years has set many of our most important First Amendment precedents. [read post]
20 Feb 2022, 3:45 am
Yvonne: As Alan Watts would say, “Wu Wei. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 11:01 am
[The latest from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), pushing back against threats of trademark litigation over parody.] [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 3:00 am
New Rules for MPs Proposed in Wake of Lobbying Scandal Sky News – Alan McGuiness | Published: 11/29/2021 The Standards Committee has unveiled its interim report into reform of the standards system in the wake of the furor generated by the Owen Paterson scandal, as well as an updated code of conduct for members of Parliament (MP). [read post]
1 Dec 2021, 8:21 am
For example, one can make the switch in system without the capital levy, or else impose a capital levy without the switch in system. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 12:48 pm
But income earned in the other state would face a 4.45% tax rate (3.2% under one's own state's residence-based tax, and 1.25% in the other state from the source-based tax, with no abatement given the lack of home-state credit).Knoll and Mason, along with Alan Viard, have discussed elsewhere why internal consistency is a sound economic method for identifying provisions that are tariff-like in the sense of burdening cross-border activity relative to one-jurisdiction activity. [read post]
6 Nov 2021, 11:30 am
A very interesting speech-restrictive injunction case, described by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen): In releasing documents electronically pursuant to a public records request, a local government body in New Jersey made a rookie error: using Word to perform redactions in a manner that was easily undone when the requester opened the documents on his own device. [read post]
6 Nov 2021, 11:30 am
A very interesting speech-restrictive injunction case, described by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen): In releasing documents electronically pursuant to a public records request, a local government body in New Jersey made a rookie error: using Word to perform redactions in a manner that was easily undone when the requester opened the documents on his own device. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 4:16 am
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen took up the cause for the Kos and Downeast Dem to argue that the court used the wrong test. [read post]
28 Oct 2021, 5:19 pm
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has the details: Last summer, [Robert F. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 6:37 pm
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) reports on the threat, and on his response. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 9:47 am
An interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Consumer Law & Policy Blog), about a brief that Public Citizen just filed in VIP Pet Grooming Studio, Inc. v. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 7:06 am
WHEREAS, South Carolina Code of Laws Annotated Section 4-9-130 provides that: To meet public emergencies affecting life, health, safety or the property of the people, council may adopt emergency ordinances; but such ordinances shall not levy taxes, grant, renew or extend a franchise or impose or change a service rate. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 2:30 pm
(Remember, Alan Gura, Clark Neily, and Bob Levy filed the suit with O'Connor was still on the bench). [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 5:35 am
Key Findings The Biden administration’s budget proposals have several provisions focused on raising taxes on the U.S. fossil fuel industry. [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 3:50 am
Table of Contents Key Findings Introduction What Is the Tax Gap and What Proposals Are Available? [read post]
25 Jul 2021, 7:19 pm
” Background The three defendant directors — William Atkins, Gregory Smith and John Waite — had been in conflict with CEO and Chairman Alan Morelli since October 2012 when they purported to remove him from both positions in a surprise board meeting. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 8:50 am
Alan Gura, Bob Levy, and Clark Neily represented Heller. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 9:00 am
” Alan Levy can be reached at: adrsettlement@gmail.com The post Man in the Middle: Alan Levy Makes Peace when Whistleblowing Turns Ugly appeared first on Whistleblower Network News. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 5:01 am
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen, whose work I trust and admire, posted this at the Consumer Law & Policy blog a week ago; I e-mailed plaintiff's counsel to see if they were willing to pass along their side of the story, but got no response: Our latest case about the right to speak anonymously is in federal court in Chicago, flowing from a dispute between a prominent vlogger named Cristina Villegas and a plastic surgeon named David Shifrin who, Villegas complained,… [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 11:22 am
The Great Liberal Reckoning Has Begun By Alan Z. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 5:00 am
These actions among others are the allegations levied against him in the pending civil action by the SEC according to the reports in the Complaint. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 5:00 am
These actions among others are the allegations levied against him in the pending civil action by the SEC according to the reports in the Complaint. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:45 am
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen's Consumer Law & Policy Blog) has a quick summary; you can read the entire opinion here. [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 1:54 pm
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has the latest example: It's been many years since John Dozier and his associates suffered the humiliation (and subjected their clients to the Streisand Effect) that followed from their habit of appending a threat of copyright infringement litigation to their defamation demand letters, but a newly minted "defamation attorney" from Houston named Paul Sternberg seems determined to follow in their path. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 9:55 am
Short-term policies to “stimulate” economic growth after COVID-19 run the risk of producing short-term results and would likely prove insufficient and ineffective for sparking a long-term recovery. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 5:59 am
[An interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) on a demand letter ProctorU sent to UCSB.] [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 11:43 am
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) moved to unseal the documents on Feb. 25 (see my post on his motion). [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 12:26 pm
Adam Levitin (who had written about the underlying case), and was filed by Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen and local counsel Jay Bender of Baker, Ravenel & Bender, L.L.P. [read post]
20 Feb 2020, 11:23 am
The idea of levying a tax on transactions was proposed by former presidential candidate Sen. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 10:07 am
Alan Cranston introduced a bill to create an independent special prosecutor office to investigate executive branch lawbreaking. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 6:28 am
(Peter Eavis, Alan Rappeport, and Ana Swanson, NY Times). [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 2:58 am
[TMZ, Eugene Volokh] “Your Periodic Reminder that Blogging About Litigation Can Generate More Litigation” [Eric Goldman] Virginia emerges as libel tourism destination in high-profile cases [Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post; Paul Alan Levy, Public Citizen on Devin Nunes action, earlier] “Virginia Legislator Joe Morrissey Gets Called “Fool,” Sues, Arguing He’s Not a Fool” [Eugene Volokh] “Retired Law Professor Sues… [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal 6 Million Democratic Donors Gave $1 Billion in 2019 Through ActBlue, Officials Say Washington Post – Michelle Ye Hee Lee | Published: 1/9/2020 Democratic small-dollar donors gave $1 billion through the online fundraising platform ActBlue in 2019, highlighting the explosion of online giving on the left heading into the presidential election year. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 3:06 am
Claiborne Hardware [Eugene Volokh first and second posts on Arkansas challenge, David Bernstein first and second posts] My own views on anti-Israel-boycott and anti-BDS laws here, and related; Officials in Lafayette County, Wisconsin quickly back off “completely bananas” suggestion of prosecuting news outlets that report “selectively” on water quality test results [Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Patrick Marley update] Some IP claims are real killers: heirs… [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 2:00 am
It is levied either on the manufacturer, producer, or importer of the device. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 3:03 am
Public.Resource.Org, earlier here and here] Update: federal judge Kaplan imposes sanctions on alleged “copyright troll” Richard Liebowitz, further complications ensue [Eugene Volokh, more, ABA Journal, earlier] How Coca-Cola responds to flavor suggestions from fans on Twitter [Mike Masnick] “California Man Gets Sued After Trying To Trademark Bully A Theme Park’ [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] “Like Righthaven before it, the Higbee firm has been taking advantage of… [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal A Court Rejects Trump’s Appeal in His Fight to Keep Financial Records from Congress Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Charlie Savage (New York Times) | Published: 11/13/2019 The U.S. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 3:02 am
” [same] “Top Myths About Content Moderation” [Eric Goldman] And a Cato Daily Podcast about content moderation with Thomas Kadri and Caleb Brown; “Attorney Who Sued Grindr Responds Extremely Poorly To The Supreme Court’s Rejection Of Her Section 230 Lawsuit” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt, on “victims’ lawyer” Carrie Goldberg; Cathy Gellis in January] It must be campaign season because here come the DMCA takedown notices over fair use [Paul… [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 3:01 am
” [Paul Alan Levy] How courts draw the line on when menacing language triggers the “true threat” exception to First Amendment protection [Federalist Society teleforum with Eugene Volokh, John Elwood, and Michael Dreeben] “Should Congress Pass A ‘Deep Fakes’ Law? [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal AP Exclusive: Middleman helped Saudi give to Obama inaugural AP News – Alan Suderman and Jim Mustian | Published: 10/29/2019 When President Barack Obama was reelected in 2012, a Saudi tycoon and his business associate sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the U.S. to help pay for the inaugural celebration and get a picture with the president. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 1:02 pm
From Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen (Consumer Law & Policy Blog): The personal and commercial heirs of the deceased photographer Korda, best known for the iconic photograph of Che Guevara that has adorned Tshirts and posters displayed by young admirers for fifty years, have issued a takedown demand to Liberty Maniacs over its sales of parody items that display the photo's cap and hair but replace Guevara's visage with, alternately, Donald… [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Cherokee Nation Sending First-Ever Delegate to Congress Newsweek – K Thor Jensen | Published: 8/20/2019 The Cherokee Nation is appointing its first delegate to Congress. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 3:00 am
Internal Email: Microsoft suspends PAC donations temporarily following employee uproar GeekWire – Nat Levy | Published: 7/24/2019 Microsoft is temporarily halting donations through its PAC after facing a backlash from employees protesting lack of influence over which candidates and campaigns the organization supported. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 3:01 am
[Michelle Lou, CNN] “Caterpillar Now Going After All The Cats For Trademark Cancellations” [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt, earlier] Before trying to open a storefront business in San Francisco you might look to this advice from commercial real estate brokers about the city’s zoning and permit hurdles, and please quit using words like “bonkers” or “flabbergasting” [Robert Fruchtman Twitter thread] “Lawyer engaged in ‘sustained campaign of… [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 12:30 pm
Alan Dershowitz, Miami Herald, and Michael Cernovich: Yes! [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 4:50 am
This means the rate is levied on a tax base that does not include the tax paid. [read post]
31 May 2019, 6:10 am
If the 25 percent tariff were levied on the same level of imported steel, the tax would total roughly $7.3 billion. [read post]
14 May 2019, 8:46 am
A very interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), who is a leading expert on this sort of thing; much worth reading, if you're interested on the use and abuse of copyright claims online. [read post]
9 May 2019, 9:48 am
Thanks to Paul Alan Levy (Public CItizen) for the pointer. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 6:00 am
Table 1. 2019 Tax Rates on Long Term Capital Gains Source: “2019 Tax Brackets,” Tax Foundation and IRS Topic Number 559 For Unmarried Individuals For Married Individuals Filing Joint Returns For Heads of Households Taxable Income Over 0% $0 $0 $0 15% $39,375 $78,750 $52,750 20% $434,550 $488,850 $461,700 Additional Net Investment Income Tax 3.8% MAGI above $200,000 MAGI above $250,000 MAGI above $200,000 In addition to federal taxes on capital gains, most… [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 9:32 am
From the motion in Shelby Resorts Corp. v. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 9:32 am
This violates the First Amendment and common law rights of access to court records, I think; Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has just filed a motion to intervene and unseal in the matter (Shelby Resorts Corp. v. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 8:13 am
Taxes can be levied on the principal (the original amount of money saved and invested), on the returns (the money generated from the investment), or on both. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 4:00 am
Ravitch, Alan Brownstein, Gabor Halmai, Bruce Ledewitz, Yaniv Roznai, Jaclyn L. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 5:22 am
Susan Landau responded to Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson’s article outlining principles for a more informed debate on exceptional access. [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 11:37 am
Alan Z. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 9:02 pm
(LEONARD LEVY, ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS’ CONSTITUTION 214 (1988)). [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 6:28 am
Key Findings The United States levies several excise taxes, which are taxes on specific goods or activities rather than a general tax base like income. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 4:07 pm
Newspapers Journalism and Regulation At an EU level the introduction of amendments to copyright law will levy a link tax and charges search engines providing access to copyrighted materials. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 10:59 am
Testimony Before the United States Joint Economic Committee In December, Congress passed a historic tax reform package, which made the U.S. tax code more competitive. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 5:50 am
Key Findings One of the most significant provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the permanently lower federal corporate income tax rate, which decreased from 35 percent to 21 percent. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 8:28 pm
” And at Public Citizen’s “Consumer Law & Policy Blog,” Paul Alan Levy has a post titled “California Supreme Court Reverses Order Compelling Yelp to Comply with Order Compelling User to Remove a Defamatory Review. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 9:13 am
Overview of Tariffs Tariffs are a type of excise tax that is levied on goods produced abroad at the time of import. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 6:10 am
If the 25 percent tariff were levied on the same level of imported steel, the tax would total roughly $7.3 billion. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 12:52 pm
The administration is expected to impose a 25 percent levy on approximately $50 billion worth of Chinese imports as soon as tomorrow. [read post]
