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11 Mar 2020, 12:16 pm
Coverage of the event from TechFreedom (on Techdirt): (1) Why Section 230 Matters And How Not To Break The Internet; DOJ 230 Workshop Review, Part I. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 2:56 am
” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Author of new book, a Fordham lawprof, “wants the U.S. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 8:17 pm
Well, the dreaded day has come: the EARN IT Act was formally introduced today in the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 2:59 am
” [Cato Daily Podcast episodes with Caleb Brown interviewing Matthew Feeney and Lou Perez] “Civil FOSTA Suits Start Showing Up In Court; Prove That FOSTA Supporters Were 100% Wrong About Who Would Be Targeted” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt, earlier] Cause célèbre in the U.K.: employment law tribunal, an institution with no exact counterpart in American law, rules against worker fired from nonprofit over tweets expressing view that sex is immutable biological… [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 4:39 pm
Techdirt reports that the Virginia Legislature has passed an Anti-SLAPP law. [read post]
1 Feb 2020, 9:05 am
” [Jim Schutze, Dallas Observer via Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Tags: crime and punishment, Dallas, nuisance [read post]
30 Jan 2020, 12:42 pm
As Techdirt’s Mike Masnick put it, “not a single thing in CDA 230 stops the DOJ from doing anything. [read post]
25 Jan 2020, 8:59 am
.'” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Tags: Hillary Clinton, libel slander and defamation, New York Times, politics [read post]
28 Dec 2019, 8:59 am
” [Mike Masnick, Techdirt] “These were never good jobs,” claims the measure’s sponsor, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), but lots of freelancers have made clear they disagree [Billy Binion] “Mainstream politicians and pundits love to cite ‘unintended consequences’ when their preferred policies cause harm in the exact ways libertarians said they would. [read post]
22 Dec 2019, 5:17 pm
” And at Techdirt, Tim Cushing has a post titled “Second Circuit Says Warrantless Backdoor Searches Of NSA Collections Might Violate The Fourth Amendment. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 3:01 am
” [Alex Tabarrok on Esteban Mendez-Chacon and Diana Van Patten paper] “I’ve often noted to people that [lawyers who] are unethical at the start of representation are not likely to be ethical later as their interests are directed to the self and not the client” [Eric Turkewitz on NYPD 911-call-injury-referral scandal, earlier] “The Color Magenta, Or How T-Mobile Thinks It Owns A General Color” [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Tags: Baltimore, chasing… [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 7:40 am
*Except Techdirt, which picked the item up from Grits. [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… [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 9:05 pm
” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Tags: advertising, broadcasters, Donald Trump [read post]
17 Nov 2019, 9:01 am
That isn’t how HIPAA works [Tim Cushing, Techdirt, Dallas transit case; earlier on Denver case] Tags: Dallas, HIPAA, photography, police [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 3:02 am
House of Representatives votes lopsidedly in favor of CASE Act [Makena Kelly, The Verge; Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today; Katharine Trendacosta and Ernesto Falcon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, here, here, here, and here; Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Copyright Alliance and ABA president Judy Perry Martinez (supportive of bill); earlier] A social media platform that proposes to vet political claims for truthfulness will inevitably be drawn into taking sides in favor of some political… [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 8:54 am
TechDirt reports that tech industry groups are warning that these developments, including the EU Copyright Directive, will harm the interests of US companies, while conflicting with various free trade agreementImportant question of Jurisdiction in Copyright Infringement cases, resolved by the US Court of Appeals for the 6th CircuitIn a lawsuit involving a lack of proximity or territorial nexus of the infringing action to the venue wherein the suit was instituted, the court in the US… [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 9:16 am
” [Justin Price, Arizona Republic; Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Although the Supreme Court’s Brady doctrine requires prosecutors to inform defense counsel of evidence undermining the credibility of police witnesses, the right can amount to little if matters are so arranged that past instances of officer dishonesty never come to their attention in the first place [Steve Reilly and Mark Nichols, USA Today] In Baltimore, following the conviction of several officers in the notorious Gun… [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 2:59 am
” Take for example the Ninth Circuit [Cathy Gellis, TechDirt] New book (not seen by me) by Bruce Cannon Gibney, The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System, draws a favorable review from Tyler Cowen and a less favorable one from Mark Pulliam; The loophole that lets 3.1 million persons — even millionaires — collect SNAP benefits even though they wouldn’t otherwise meet eligibility standards, and why some state agencies are fine with… [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 2:58 am
Though ruled unconstitutional a half century ago, Louisiana’s criminal defamation law has remained on the books and could still cause you grief, especially if a sheriff’s office thinks you’ve defamed it [Sara Pagones and Katie Moore, NOLA.com] Certiorari petition filed asking Supreme Court to stop climatologist Michael Mann’s lawsuit against National Review [NR, earlier] Latest sassy response to a cease-and-desist demand (language) [Mike Masnick, TechDirt;… [read post]
