Five years ago today, police burst into Breonna Taylor's home and shot her dead. @19thnews spoke to her mother, Tamika Palmer, about her ongoing quest for truth and justice, and how she is spending today. “I just want to honor her myself,” Palmer said. “I don’t want to argue with the world, I don’t want to share her with the world, I don’t want to have to prove that she deserves justice.”
#BreonnaTaylor #News #USLaw #USPolice #Blackmastodon @blackmastodon
More than 60 years ago, New York Times C. v. Sullivan established that, to succeed in defamation cases, public figures must prove that a published statement is false and that publishers acted with "actual malice." "Murder the Truth," a new book by New York Times journalist and editor David Enrich, discusses the movement to overturn Sullivan, accelerated by Trump, his allies and people who are influenced by them. Nieman Lab spoke to Enrich about his investigation, the journalists he spoke to, and more. "The push to overturn Roe was obviously one of the most coordinated assaults on established Supreme Court precedent, probably in history," Enrich says. "This is definitely not like that — but it’s not an accident that these people were getting up and being given platforms on places like Fox News to make these arguments over and over again."
#USLaw #Law #Libel #Defamation #Books @bookstodon #Media #Journalism #MurderTheTruth
Kudos to the American Bar Association (@abaesq) for speaking out against the #Trump admin #intimidation of #judges.
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2025/03/aba-rejects-efforts-to-undermine-courts-and-legal-profession/
"We cannot have a judicial system where the government seeks to remove judges simply because they do not rule as the government desires. Considering the increasing physical threats to judges, these are clearly efforts to intimidate judges and our courts. The courts are a co-equal branch of our government, and they must be treated that way. We call upon the government and our elected officials to cease making these statements. Government officials know they can appeal decisions they do not like. That is the appropriate way to disagree with a decision of a court."
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating grants and contracts related to DEI, agreeing with the plaintiffs (including the city of Baltimore and higher education groups) that the termination provision "invites arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement over billions of dollars in government funding," U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson ruled. “The possibilities are almost endless, and many are pernicious ... If an elementary school receives Department of Education funding for technology access, and a teacher uses a computer to teach the history of Jim Crow laws, does that risk the grant being deemed 'equity-related' and the school being stripped of funding?" Here's more from NBC.
[cowardice; abrogation of duty] I’m a Doctor Appalled at Silence f. American Medical Association
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/im-a-doctor-and-im-appalled-at-the-silence-from-the-american-medical-association
“Many physicians feel our values do not align w. the values of our advocacy organization” 🤔
#cowardice #abrogation #abandonment #sycophancy #AMA
#NIH #NSF #CDC #science #medicine
#USpol #USlaw #Trump #fascism #theocracy #censorship #PostTruthism
#Christofascism #Catholicism #transgenocide
#epistemology #CriticalThinking
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
New publication - Rimmer, M. Tractor Rage: Intellectual Property, Agriculture, Competition Policy, and the Right to Repair. IIC (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-024-01538-5 #righttorepair #agriculture #farming #uspol #uslaw
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Maine's Right to Repair law - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9R7tscER0 #uslaw #uspol
A bankruptcy judge has rejected The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars site, ruling that the auction process was unfair. "I don't think it's enough money," Judge Christopher Lopez said after a two-day hearing. "I'm not going to approve the sale." It was not immediately clear whether there will be a new auction in which The Onion can participate. Here's more from @NBCNews.
#Media #News #TheOnion #Infowars #AlexJones #USLaw #Bankruptcy
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun hit headlines over the past couple of weeks because he paid $6.2 million for an art installation of a banana, then ate it. But @realjuddlegum says there's a far more important reason you should know his name. On Nov. 25, he purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial, saying his company, TRON, was committed to "making America great again."
"Any foreign national paying an incoming president $18 million weeks before entering the White House should raise red flags. Sun's purchase is even more alarming because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently prosecuting him for fraud," writes Legum. Here's the full story via his Substack, Popular Info.
#JustinSun #Crypto #DonaldTrump #SEC #Fraud #TrumpAdministration #MaurizioCattelan #Bananas #USLaw #USPolitics
Trouble in influencer land: Sydney Nicole Gifford, who makes her living from showcasing Amazon wares, is suing Alyssa Sheil for copyright infringement, tortious interference with prospective business relations and misappropriating another person’s likeness — in other words, stealing her vibe. For @theverge, @miasato.2 met both, visited their identikit homes, and pondered: Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is ... basic? "It’s a look and feel so commonplace on the internet that I can’t imagine anyone claiming ownership over it, especially in a legal context," writes Sato.
#SocialMedia #Influencers #TikTok #Amazon #Lifestyle #Law #USLaw
Jurors find audio-visual evidence convincing and hard to forget — and with the explosion of cheap generative AI systems, it is increasingly difficult to determine if a photo or video is authentic or not. @Gizmodo spoke to experts including a superior court judge, law professors and computer scientists about deepfakes in court.
#Photography #Photos #AI #Videography #ArtificialIntelligence #Deepfakes #tech #Technology #USLaw #Law
In his will, Henry Kissinger, who died last year at the age of 100, requested a "monument" in his memory be erected in Arlington National Cemetery to mark the site where he is buried. According to his literary executor L. Paul Bremer, it's not happening. Bremer told @politico that the cemetery has tightened its rules on private markers and consequently "there will be a tombstone, a grave marker." The former secretary of state's will also reveals that he died a very rich man, with a personal fortune of at least $80 million, most of which will go to his wife, Nancy, and his family.
"The request from Kansas, Idaho and Missouri filed Friday would bar the drug’s use after seven weeks of pregnancy instead of 10 and require three in-person doctor office visits instead of none in the latest attempt to make it harder to get a drug that’s used in most abortions nationally."
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #mifepristone #courts #FDA #USlaw
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has written to Deere & Company (John Deere) accusing the company of undermining its own “right-to-repair” agreements and evading its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act by failing to grant its customers the right to repair their own agricultural equipment.
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-demands-john-deere-explain-disgraceful-attempts-to-prevent-farmers-from-repairing-their-own-equipment #agriculture #farming #righttorepair #uslaw #uspol
US sues Visa for monopoly on debit-card use affecting ‘price of nearly everything’
Government claims firm stifles competition by threatening merchants with high fees and pays off potential rivals https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/24/visa-doj-antitrust-investigation #antitrust #competition #uslaw #uspol
Are #Tesla and #ElonMusk guilty of violating #InternationalLaw and #USLaw? #RamzanKodyrov #ChechenWarTesla #UkraineRussiaWar
Trump campaign deletes Freedom video after Beyoncé blocks use of song https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/22/beyonce-blocks-trump-use-of-her-song-freedom-kamala-harris
Freedom, the central song in the Kamala Harris campaign, appeared in a Trump campaign video but was contested by singer’s label and publisher. #uspol #copyright #beyonce #uslaw #music
#Republicans including #TedCruz and #CathyMcMorrisRodgers submit briefs against #NetNeutrality in a current lawsuit in the Sixth Circuit.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/key-gop-lawmakers-ask-court-to-void-fccs-net-neutrality-rules/
'Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, on Tuesday sued a global advertising alliance and several major companies, including Unilever, Mars and CVS Health, accusing them of unlawfully conspiring to shun the social network and intentionally causing it to lose revenue.' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/elon-musk-x-advertising-lawsuit-antitrust This seems like a strange legal action. There are good reasons why advertisers are shunning X - including the risk of brand damage stemming from the lack of effective moderation. It is doubtful that you could compel advertisers to advertise on your platform.
#uslaw #advertising
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has ruled that Amazon is responsible for recalling dangerous products sold by third parties on its platform. More than 400,000 of such products have been recalled, including faulty carbon monoxide detectors, hairdryers without electrocution protection, and kids' sleepwear that violates flammability standards. Here's more from CBS.
#Amazon #Shopping #Lifestyle #ConsumerProtection #Recalls #USLaw
I support the constitutional amendment to overturn the #SCOTUS #immunity decision.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/193/text
But it will be a long slog. The amendment process is slow and difficult by design. That's not a reason to give up. It's a reason to start immediately.
The proposed amendment also bars presidential self-pardon. A much-needed step. I wish it went one step further and barred corrupt pardons, that is, pardons of the president's accomplices and co-conspirators.
I've pointed out in a couple of replies over the past day, but it's worth mentioning in a top-level post, too, and starting off a couple of points.
These are #CrowdStrike's general terms and conditions. You want to be looking at §8.2 and §8.6.
https://crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/
The disclaimer of warranty is a normal thing in software licence agreements. But were any of its corporate users violating the not-to-be-used conditions? Was that negligence on their parts if so?
'Several major educational publishing companies, including Macmillan, Elsevier and McGraw Hill, have sued Google in a New York district court alleging contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, trademark infringement and violations of New York’s General Business Law. The companies claim that Google’s search engine is facilitating infringement by promoting pirate sites that sell heavily discounted versions of educational textbooks.' https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/06/06/publishing-companies-say-google-liable-promoting-pirated-textbooks/id=177551/ #copyright #publishing #education #uslaw
Trump plots capture of DoJ in renewed assault on US justice system
Ex-president determined to destroy independence of justice department if he regains control of White House https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/trump-justice-department #uslaw #uspol
Donald Trump has been found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, and will be sentenced on July 11. MSNBC's Katie Phang looks at the "novel legal theory" prosecutor Alvin Bragg chose to employ in this trial. "It’s important to take a minute to digest what the prosecution had to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt: Trump, with the intent to defraud, made (or caused to be made) false entries in an enterprise’s business records, and his 'intent to defraud included an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof,'" Phang writes.
