Masthash

#Law

Windspeaker.com
22 minutes ago

The Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations are both threatening legal action now that the province has passed the Saskatchewan First Act.

Both the FSIN and MN-S called the government out for lack of consultation both before the bill was drafted and as the bill worked its way through the legislature.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/legal-action-against-saskatchewan-first-act-horizon

#Indigenous #rights #SaskFirstAct #legislation #courts #law

Jon
1 hour ago

I’m working on a comparative paper about animal-focused tourism.

Today I learned that the Koala was listed as endangered in February 2022.

I did not realize the Koala was only recently listed. I was under the impression it had been listed some time ago, but that was only threatened status.

#Australia #InternationalLaw #law

Ralf
1 hour ago

Someone I know once told me "never assume malice when stupidity will suffice."

At what point does stupidity, laziness, ignorance, unwillingness to follow up, etc. become malicious?

Asking for a friend.

#philosophy #law #legal

#Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis should pass a #LAW that outlaws the teaching and discussion of Burmese Pythons. That’ll force the pythons to go away for sure!

RE: https://forall.social/users/themaskerscomic/statuses/110061845360354544

Queer Lit Cats
4 hours ago

Pink News: Metropolitan Police: Damning new report challenges response to Stephen Port victims’ inquest https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/21/metropolitan-police-report-stephen-port-baroness-casey/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #News #Law #UK

Queer Lit Cats
5 hours ago

Pink News: Metropolitan Police report: Homophobic officers ‘obsessed’ with gay sex would grill lesbian officers https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/21/metropolitan-police-lgbtq-gay-homophobia/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #News #Law #UK

openDemocracy
7 hours ago

Putin’s warlord planned new legal attack on BBC with UK government help.

Vladimir Putin’s private warlord, the sanctioned oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, was planning to launch a legal attack on the BBC with the same UK government help that had enabled him to sue another British journalist, openDemocracy can reveal.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/russia-war-ukraine-wagner-prigozhin-legal-attack-on-bbc-uk-government-help/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Sanctions #Ukraine #Russia #UK #UKnews #UKpolitics #BBC #Law #Journalism #Media

Queer Lit Cats
7 hours ago

Pink News: Georgia county spends $1.2m on private lawyers to avoid paying for trans woman’s healthcare https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/21/georgia-houston-county-anna-lange/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #gender-affirminghealthcare #healthcare #Georgia #Health #Law #US

Alexf24
8 hours ago
Prison visits.

We wish
Frederik Borgesius
9 hours ago

'Guidance on AI and data protection' by the UK Data Protection Authority, the ICO. Just updated. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/key-dp-themes/guidance-on-ai-and-data-protection/
#gdpr #law #ai #tech #dataprotection

IndiaNewsWatch
12 hours ago

A new book explores how defendants on terror charges cope with their grinding cases

An excerpt from ‘Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts’, by Mayur R Suresh.

#BookExcerpt #MayurSuresh #TerrorTrials #undertrials #terrorism #prisons #prisoners #justice #law #UAPA #DelhiPolice #delhi #india #books #bookstodon

https://scroll.in/article/1045506/a-new-book-explores-how-defendants-on-terror-charges-cope-with-their-grinding-cases

andrzej_jozwik
12 hours ago

Warto się zainteresować. Temat palący, niezależnie od pory dnia. Tak w ogóle: dzień dobry.
'A roadmap for “algorithmic preparedness” — a set of five forward-looking principles to guide the development of regulations that confront the prospect of algorithmic black swans and mitigate the harms they pose to society.' #science #law #ai #pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4370566

Poetry News
15 hours ago

Oh Suella Braverman, thou art the law's light
So that the Met Police can stand upright
Though scandals come and go
High standards we must know
So that justice can shine bright and bright.

#metpolice #law #justice #ode #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rogue-police-met-law-change-braverman-b2304058.html

Alexf24
17 hours ago

McCarthy & Jordan attempt to shut down NY DA Alvin Bragg's criminal investigation of Donald Trump

https://youtu.be/KhN_kml4jfE

#Law #Crime #Politics

Steve
18 hours ago

Should be a national mandate.

‟Vermont’s Supreme Court: Obtaining Real Time Cell Site Location Data Requires A Warrant” https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/20/vermonts-supreme-court-obtaining-real-time-cell-site-location-data-requires-a-warrant/ #4A #privacy #tracking #location #law

Sonya Steele
1 day ago

“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented Monday as the Supreme Court wiped out a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the right of a minor to go to court to obtain permission to seek an abortion without parental notification.”

“Jackson emphasized that, in her view, “mere disagreement with the decision that one seeks to have vacated cannot suffice” to justify the unusual step.”

#Law #BlackMastodon
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/20/jackson-dissents-in-scotus-abortion-case-00087840

Queer Lit Cats
1 day ago
Queer Lit Cats
1 day ago

Pink News: Kentucky Republican issues damning attack on own party for ‘tsunami’ of anti-LGBTQ+ bills https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/20/kentucky-republican-bob-heleringer-attacks-anti-lgbtq-laws/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #anti-transbills #anti-LGBTlaws #Politics #Kentucky #News #Law #US

They Call Me Dr. Breaux
1 day ago

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Law #Justice

"The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books."

Jesse Williams

CryptoNewsBot
1 day ago

FTX debtors file lawsuit against exchange's Bahamian arm on ownership of property - The lawsuit claimed FTX Digital Markets was an "economic nullity"... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-debtors-file-lawsuit-against-exchange-s-bahamian-arm-on-ownership-of-property #regulation #bankruptcy #court #law #ftx

RBRATSPIES
1 day ago

one thing about writing books . . .I ran out of space way before I ran out of material. So, I am writing blog posts to spill more tea about the people in #NamingGotham. This one is about sleazy lawyer Robert Macomb and the saga behind Macombs Dam(n) Bridge. #history #histodon #law https://www.thefacultylounge.org/2023/03/robert-macomblawyer-for-the-ages.html

Edward Hopper painting of Macombs Dam Bridge across the Harlem River
Lynton North
1 day ago
Neil1808
1 day ago

Is it possible to legally define a NAZI salute?

Many protestors make similar gestures without any thought of the National Socialists.

#law #Auspol #Racism
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-to-ban-nazi-salutes-after-far-right-rally-20230320-p5ctip.html

Frederik Borgesius
1 day ago

NL. Last year, a bill was proposed that that enabled the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) to collect personal data from social media and other sources. Now the bill has been amended: this competence has been deleted (see Dutch toots above). Some background: https://www.sectorplandls.nl/wordpress/archive/frederik-zuiderveen-borgesius-speaks-at-parliamentary-roundtable/ #law #nctv #security #gdpr #surveillance #privacy #dataprotection

IndiaNewsWatch
2 days ago

How A Men’s Rights NGO Got The Delhi High Court To Hear Arguments To Keep Marital Rape Legal

In more than 150 countries, it is a crime to rape your wife but not in India, a position supported by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Driven by an unwavering conviction that women have been misusing laws to harass men, men’s rights activists in India battle to keep it that way, using legal arguments—the Supreme Court will hear them in March—political lobbying and an aggressive social media campaign.

#rape #MaritalRape #law #DelhiHC #misogyny #MRA #ViolenceAgainstWomen #DomesticViolence #patriarchy #AmitLakhani #SwarupSarkar #SaveIndianFamily #UnionGovt #india

https://article-14.com/post/how-a-men-s-rights-ngo-got-the-delhi-high-court-to-hear-arguments-to-keep-marital-rape-legal-6417d5b090b6e

IndiaNewsWatch
2 days ago

‘Talking like an outlaw’: Opposition critcises Kiren Rijiju for his remark about retired judges

The law minister had said that some retired judges are part of an “anti-India gang’ and are trying to make the judiciary play the role of the Opposition party.

#KirenRijiju #IndianJudiciary #law #opposition #RSS #BJP #democracy #justice #INC #ShivSena #CPIM #india

https://scroll.in/latest/1045890/talking-like-an-outlaw-opposition-critcises-kiren-rijiju-for-his-remark-about-retired-judges

Frederik Borgesius
2 days ago

‘Indonesia Enacts Personal Data Protection Act, with a DPA.. Compared with the current benchmark for data privacy laws, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), many other ‘modern’ aspects are included in Indonesia's law (at least in theory). On paper, it is one of the best laws in Asia.’ Greenleaf & Andin Aditya Rahman https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4343593 #privacy #dataprotection #gdpr #law #tech #indonesia #asia

Frederik Borgesius
2 days ago

‘The Law of Mongolia on the Protection of Personal Information.. marks the last country in Central Asia to enact a data privacy law.. At least on paper, it is a stronger law than is found in almost any of the 26 countries in Asia from Japan to Afghanistan, provided we assume that the enforcement aspects will be effective’ Greenleaf & Kaldani
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4239719 #privacy #dataprotection #gdpr #law #tech

RememberUsAlways
2 days ago

@citizencat

It's a process issue. DOJ functions on process and this investigation is on the books the longest period of time in the scope of active investigations. States go first and the FED builds on any information that is discovered.

Legal order of operations.

#law

The "right to privacy" is in conflict with property rights.

People who want privacy ought to take preventative measures to preserve their privacy, but claiming that we have a right to privacy is an affront to liberty and truth.

https://sue.hashnode.dev/debunking-the-right-to-privacy

#privacy #ethics #law

Steven Beschloss writes,

"At least four law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, said the initial discussions concern security, planning and the practical operations of a potential appearance by Trump in the Manhattan court. Signaling they know what’s coming, Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina told the AP that, if Trump is indicted, 'we will follow the normal procedures.'”

#Trump #law #RuleofLaw #crime #criminals #democracy

https://america.substack.com/p/how-will-you-react-if-trump-is-indicted/comments

Joyce Vance writes,

"Trump continues to be everything Congressman Adam Schiff admonished Senators he was during impeachment-someone who would damage our national security again if not reined in, someone who truth and what’s right doesn’t matter to."

#Trump #law #RuleofLaw #crime #criminals #democracy

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/courage

“Previously, I had said if Trump was arrested or under the threat of a perp walk, 100,000 patriots should shut down all routes to Mar-a-Lago…. Now I’m retired. I’ll pray for him though!”

#Trump #Republicans #law #RuleofLaw #crime #criminals #democracy
/4

"Now Trump has taken that argument to its logical conclusion: the country has been destroyed by women, Black Americans, Indigenous people, and people of color, who have taken it over and are persecuting people like him. …

Ali Alexander, who helped to organize 'Stop the Steal' rallies to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election, wrote to his supporters today:"

#Trump #Republicans #law #RuleofLaw #crime #criminals #democracy
/3

"Since the days of Reagan, Republicans have argued that people who believe that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, protect civil rights, and promote infrastructure are destroying the country by trying to redistribute wealth from hardworking white Americans to undeserving minorities and women."

#Trump #Republicans #law #RuleofLaw #crime #criminals #democracy
/2

Heather Cox Richardson notes the picture Trump is painting as he makes social media statements depicting himself as the object of a witch-hunt and calling for his followers to defend him:

"Trump’s false and dystopian portrait of the nation takes to its logical conclusion the narrative Republicans have pushed since the 1980s."

#Trump #Republicans #law #RuleofLaw #crime #criminals #democracy
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2023

Seán Fobbe
3 days ago

UPDATE

Download 8.559 full-text decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) from 1998 to today as a high-quality dataset here ⬇️

#OpenAccess
#PublicDomain
✅ Formats: PDF, TXT, CSV, HTML

Documentation: https://zenodo.org/record/7659109/files/CE-BVerfG_2023-02-26_Codebook.pdf?download=1

All downloads: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3902658

#RStats source: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4308216

#BVerfG #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Law #LawFedi #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenAccess @rstats @rewi @law @politicalscience @verfassungsblog

A network diagram showing the full dataset creation process of the German Federal Constitutional Court Corpus (CE-BVerfG).
Kent Pitman
3 days ago

A recent unanimous ruling by the very-Republican North Dakota Supreme Court is a small victory for human rights and a welcome island of relief in a dismal sea of gleeful and too-often euphoric cruelty—the unifying theme of the "modern" GOP's activism.

"We will soon see if other states’ courts follow suit or if they agree with the now-mainstream Republican position that a fetus’ life simply matters more than the patient who is carrying it."

This analysis piece in Slate by Mark Joseph Stern is thorough and interesting. It's worth a full read:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/republican-north-dakota-supreme-court-finds-right-to-abortion.html

#Abortion #Law #Court #Rights #WomensRights #HumanRights #HealthCare #AbortionIsHealthCare

Nonilex
4 days ago

Fed ofcls cannot find #gifts received by #Trump & his family from foreign nations, including a life-size painting of Trump from the pres of El Salvador & golf clubs from the Japanese PM, acc/to a new report….

The gifts are among >100 foreign gifts — w/a total value of nearly $300k — that Trump & family failed to report to the State Dept in violation of federal #law, acc/to the report, which cites govt recs & emails.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/donald-trump-foreign-gift/

SomeGadgetGuy
4 days ago

"EU regulators reduce e-waste, enforce using appropriate cable standards, and protect consumers against Apple's anti-consumer business practices"

Fixed your headline for you Giz...

https://www.gizchina.com/2023/03/13/european-union-hurts-apple-again-cannot-limit-usb-type-c-charging-speed/

#tech #technology #business #law #EU #news #apple #USB #ewaste #regulation #geek

Daniel AJ Sokolov
5 days ago

Wish.com is no longer #banned in #France. Although just last week, a penal court in Paris fined them 3 mio Euro for their former practice of fake discounts. The founder, a #billionaire, shall pay €250k, as I explain in German for @heiseonline - but the best part is the #video!

https://www.heise.de/news/Frankreich-beendet-Wish-com-Zensur-erteilt-Strafe-7548555.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Wish #fraud #Betrug #Zensur #Verbraucherschutz #Konsumenten #censorship #law #Recht #wish.com #fake #teuer #Ramsch #Rabatt #France #Frankreich

Chris Pirillo
5 days ago

How #AI Could Write Our Laws ~ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/how-ai-could-write-our-laws.html ~ #law ~ I might've missed @mmasnick's take on this opinion piece?

Eodyne
5 days ago

This footnote...
#lawfedi #lawyers #Law

Lorry
5 days ago

An interesting one I'd missed - Ron #DeSantis #torturing people at Guantanamo Bay.

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-force-feedings-guantanamo-bay-laughing/

TW on the link: Details of prisoner torture - Nothing triggering on the preview though.

#Politics #Law #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #USPol

North Effin’ Dakota.

#law
#lawfedi
#lawfedilist

Tucker Teague
5 days ago

'Cyclists, added the researchers, "feel like an afterthought in a transportation system dominated by cars."'

"[Law breaking] bicyclists tend to be rational individuals trying to function safely and efficiently, even if it means they are doing so illegally, given the social norms of where they live and the transportation system put in front of them."

#UrbanDesign #CityPlanning #bicycling #cycling #biking #CityCycling #transportation #bikes #safety #law #scofflaw

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/09/18/motorists-break-law-to-save-time-cyclists-break-law-to-save-lives-finds-study/

Web Axe
5 days ago

Digital Accessibility Laws Around the Globe (updated) https://www.lflegal.com/2013/05/gaad-legal-2/ by @LFLegal #a11y #law

John Colagioia
5 days ago

Rwanda shows that it takes more than seats in Parliament to liberate women https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/rwanda-women-in-parliament-employment-culture-empowerment/

Some recent government decisions have, perhaps inadvertently, hurt women the most. For example, in efforts to make the capital, Kigali, tidier and to raise tax contributions, the city’s authorities have been targeting the thousands of street vendors – the majority of whom are women struggling to raise children alone.

#Rwanda #Feminism #Law

Rwandan woman with fruits for sale in a basket held on her head
Caroline Mala Corbin
5 days ago

NEW ARTICLE: Religious Liberty for All? A Religious Right to Abortion
link:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4375866

The Supreme Court has been supremely generous with religious exemptions, at least when sought by conservative Christians.

The resulting expansive religious liberty doctrine should mean that Jews seeking religious exemptions from abortion bans should also prevail.

Not likely.

#law #lawfedi #lawfed #lawprof #abortion #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #religion #religiousLiberty

Grant R. Gulovsen
5 days ago

Remember: Silicon Valley VCs (especially guys like Sam Altman) *hate* lawyers. Absolutely hate them. Lawyers are a nuisance to guys like that because they either (1) tell them that they can't shouldn't do all the f*cked up things they want to do; or (2) sue them when they go ahead and do those things anyway.

So it's no surprise that they used the bar exam as a way to show off the capabilities of the next generation of GPT. Who needs lawyers when AI can pass the bar?

#law #LawFedi #AI

Benjamin Han
6 days ago

2/

1. Machines cannot be an "author" (p.4).

2. Whether a work can be copyrighted depends on whether an author's "own original mental conception" is given a "visible form" (p.6).

3. When only machines determine the expressive elements of a work, it's not protected (p.7).

4. A work mixing human and machine effort has to have "sufficient" human authorship to be protected, and the protection only covers the "human-authored aspects" (p.8)

#generativeAI #copyright #law #AI

Benjamin Han
6 days ago

1/ The US Copyright Office issued a registration guidance today concerning the #copyright status of #generativeAI:

U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence. March 2023. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-05321.pdf

#law #AI #Paper

SameGirlie
6 days ago

Edition 3 of the #SameGirlieShortList of ACTUALLY ACTIVE large Mastodon accounts with a legit presence here and important content. Check out those shiny new Newspaper server instances too! Holy Moly!!! 😍

@andrew Andrew Leahey
@DataDrivenMD Dr. Jorge Caballero
@mattburgess
@samlitzinger
@TexasObserver
@TucsonSentinel

#FollowFriday #FF #Mastodon #Law #Medicine #Politics #Tech #InfoSec #Disinformation #Disinfo #Pundits #Journalists #News #Resist

Eodyne
6 days ago

I see Federal Rule of Evidence 403 is having its day in the sun.
This may also be the most on brand Proud Boys thing ever.
https://twitter.com/FuzzyMarth/status/1635639171535495169
#lawfedi #law #lawyers #jan6

Screenshot of tweet stating that two Proud Boys being tried of Jan 6. crimes claimed, under oath, that they did not know each other. Prosecution has text messages showing they were close friends but the message are so racist the judge excluded them based on their prejudicial effect outweighing their probative value.
6 days ago

Der halbe März ist um, und die Masken in den Öffis sind inzwischen noch einmal deutlich weniger geworden.

Anekdotenhaft glauben viele Leute, dass Masken jetzt verboten sind. (Diese Ansicht wurde ja auch mit Nachdruck von den Gratisblättern verbreitet.) Nein, das stimmt nicht.

Das "Anti-Gesichtsverhüllungsgesetz" (beschlossen von SPÖ und OVP, nicht türkisblau, in Kraft seit Oktober 2017) ist kurz und durchaus lesbar: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20009892. Leicht zu erkennen ist die Ausnahme für "gesundheitliche Gründe".

Der "Gesundheitsminister" und die österreichische Polizei haben den vergangenen Tagen öffentlich (auf Twitter(?!) 🙈) klargestellt, dass die Ausnahme für MNS und FFP2 gilt. Angeblich ist ein Erlass dazu in Arbeit.

Auch auf der Webseite der Republik sind "Mund- und Nasen-Schutzmasken, Atemschutzmasken" bei "Infektionsgefahr" ausdrücklich Beispiele für gesundheitliche Gründe: https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/leben_in_oesterreich/aufenthalt/Seite.120251.html

Und selbst wenn: Gegen das "Anti-Gesichtsverhüllungsgesetz" zu verstoßen ist eine Verwaltungsübertretung, also so schlimm wie Falschparken. Dafür gibt es eine Ermahnung oder Geldstrafe ("bis zu 150 Euro").

Nicht zu verwechseln übrigens mit dem Vermummungsverbot, das bei "Versammlungen", aka Demonstrationen, gilt, und im Versammlungsgesetz geregelt ist. Öffi fahren ist keine Versammlung.

#maske #maskenfreunde #masken #wien #vienna #austria #österreich #rechtliches #law #ichMagMeineMaske #dieMaskeBleibtAuf#CovidIsntOver #CovidIsNotOver
#COVID19 #covid19at

FBI & Defense Dept IARPA Worked On Facial Recognition For Drones, Street Cameras Up To Track People By Faces, Half Mile Away, cam to cam

Thanks To a Majority Vote Of Support For This Precise Use Of Taxdollars -- oh wait, nah, that part didn't happen. It was done in secret. 🤔

Info thanks to ACLU lawsuit

#News #privacy #facialrecognition #biometrics #law #ACLU #FOIA #infosec #tech #surveillance #MassSurveillance #HumanRights

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/14/fbi-defense-department-worked-together-to-develop-facial-recognition-tech-for-drones-surveillance-cameras

(hollaback/cc)
1 week ago

"In the wake of this incident, everyone’s scrambling to find heroes. There aren’t any. Just about everyone sucks."

https://popehat.substack.com/p/hating-everyone-everywhere-all-at

#law #stanford #speech

christina d-h
1 week ago

🌊 🐚 New book, looks interesting: The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans by David Bosco

"Tracing the roots of the law of the sea and the background to current maritime disputes, this book chronicles how national governments interact with activists, merchants, and fragile international organizations in the struggle to build effective ocean rules."

https://academic.oup.com/book/39046

#oceans #maritime #law #governance #OxfordUPress #NewBooks #books

Lorry
1 week ago
GhostOnTheHalfShell
1 week ago

@internetarchive @Noupside

pimping internet archive’s ride

#law #copyright

#EU#ForeignAgents’ law spooks #NGOs#POLITICO

"#BRUSSELS — The #EuropeanUnion is working on a #law that would force #nongovernmental groups, #consultancies and #academic #institutions to disclose any non-EU funding as part of a crackdown on #ForeignInfluence in the #bloc, three sources confirmed to POLITICO.
The planned #legislation, which is in very early stages, echoes similar laws in #Australia and the #UnitedStates. In the #US, the #ForeignAgentsRegistrationAct has required #lobbyists working on behalf of foreign governments to register with the federal government since 1938."

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-ngo-qatargate-foreign-agents-law-disturbs-ngos/

Lunatech
1 week ago

@macrumors The real problem with adding data that isn't present in the original #photo is this: What happens if you take a picture of something for #legal or #law #enforcement purposes, and the #phone fills in (wrong) data that isn't clear in the original, such as facial features, or scars/tattoos, or license plate numbers/letters? Now suddenly you have the wrong people being charged with crimes based on doctored imagery in a #photograph! And can you detect when photos have been altered, and in a court case, can you explain to a jury that the alterations took place, or will they just trust what they see?
#Samsung #lawenforcement

Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎
1 week ago

interesting derivative action brought by stockholders on behalf of Meta Platforms, Inc., alleging breaches of fiduciary duty by the company’s current and former directors and certain officers yesterday ... I can't say I remember ever seeing an attachment to a supplemental information sheet that was a hundred pages long before

the complaint was filed under seal so won't be available until next week, but you can see the alleged bases for the breaches in the document

#Law

https://chancery.ink/metaexhibit

Robert Kingett
2 weeks ago

Lawyers, for the love of the Fedi, do not DM me about expert witness stuff! See this page, and take down my TASA ID number. I barely check the Fedi as is, so never, ever, send important information to my Fedi because I won't get around to it until, like, next year. Take down my TASA ID number and website. https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/tech/ #Law #Lawyers #Legal #Lawyer

Ben Waber
2 weeks ago

First up was an informative talk by @joris on the EU #DSA at #Rutgers. This is a grand tour of the DSA, and I'm curious how the Twitter predictions made here pre-Musk acquisition play out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQx_MsBqDI (2/7) #law

Notes about all sorts of fun interesting things coming up in the courts and on Substack, as well as a link to the amicus brief in the Tornetta v. Musk matter and a rundown on the supplemental briefing schedule!

https://thechancerydaily.substack.com/p/spacapalooza-grayscale-wwe-amc-and

#Law #LawFedi #DelawareCourtOfChancery #TheChanceryDaily

GhostOnTheHalfShell
2 weeks ago

@internetarchive Content owners like Sony make it impossible for musicians to upload their own performance of classical works, which have been in the public domain for decades or hundreds of years in some cases.

This is what has happened as the US was transformed into a plutocratic economic and political totalitarian state.

#freedomOfSpeech #firstAmendment #law #CivilRights

Texas Observer
2 weeks ago

Remember social justice lawyer extraordinaire Jeff Blackburn, in the words of those who knew him: https://www.texasobserver.org/remembering-a-social-justice-lawyer-extraordinaire/
(CW: mentions of suicide)

And more words from Scott Henson, aka Grits For Breakfast, from his memorial service: https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2023/03/jeff-blackburn-memorial-comments.html

#SocialJustice #news #memorial #Texas #history #Police #racism #law #CriminalJustice

Texas Observer
2 weeks ago

Updated: Our staff writer Michelle Pitcher received new information from one of Arthur Brown, Jr’s trial lawyers.

#Texas' deadly spring continues—Two Black men, Gary Green and Arthur Brown Jr. are set to be killed this week by the state ... https://www.texasobserver.org/gary-green-arthur-brown-executions-mental-health-death-penalty/
(CW: Descriptions of murder and self harm)

#DeathPenalty #news #CriminalJustice #law #racism #prison #HumanRights

Grant R. Gulovsen
2 weeks ago

In my years of practice I've learned that the most important thing you can do as an attorney (besides offering competent representation) is to regularly communicate with your clients.

Responding to clients within 24 hours is a good rule of thumb. They shouldn't have to chase after you.

Also, give them realistic timelines for when you can get projects done. If it's going to take a while tell them.

And when sh*t happens tell them that immediately. NEVER bullsh*t your clients.

#law #LawFedi

Zane Selvans
2 weeks ago

An interesting point from The Code of Capital about the pervasive and increasing use of mandatory arbitration in corporate disputes, especially internationally:

"This also puts lawyers in a strange and potentially quite vulnerable position. They depend on the authority of state law, but they avoid the courts, the law's traditional guardians, for fear that they might interfere with their coding work."

#booktodon #capitalism #law #arbitration cc: @amywestervelt

Texas Observer
2 weeks ago

Remembering Social Justice Lawyer Jeff Blackburn, from Those Who Knew Him https://www.texasobserver.org/remembering-a-social-justice-lawyer-extraordinaire/
(CW: suicide)

How the Immunization Partnership Campaigns for Healthy Texans:
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-vaccines-covid-preventable-diseases/

Actor Michael Urie on Growing Up in #Texas & Why He Came Back: https://www.texasobserver.org/michael-urie-shrinking-silver-foxes/

#theater #culture #TV #politics #TXlege #Science #COVID #health #Law #CriminalJustice #USpol #LGBTQIA+ #queer

Andrew Leahey
2 weeks ago

Ever wanted to know more about the "major questions" doctrine? No? Me neither. But here we are.

Here's a Maximum Minimum Competence (about 7 minutes) that will get you broadly up to speed.

https://esqcast.com/@minimumcompetence/episodes/maxmin-major-questions-doctrine

#majorquestions #lawfedi #law #lawyer #scotus @law @podcast #podcast #minimumcompetence

Ben Waber
3 weeks ago

Using outsourcing to claim that a company doesn't control working conditions appears to have received a resounding rebuke from the #NLRB. I'll want to hear from #labor #law folks to understand more about the implications, but this seems like a big deal https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23624631/alphabet-cognizant-joint-employers-youtube-music-workers-union

Texas Observer
3 weeks ago

Attorney Jeff Blackburn, a crusader for the innocent, fought injustices across #Texas in his improbable, utterly original, and often profane life.

A memorial for a social justice lawyer, from our senior writer Lise Olsen, who spoke to some of those who knew him best: https://www.texasobserver.org/remembering-a-social-justice-lawyer-extraordinaire/

(CW: Description of suicide)

#news #memorial #RIP #JeffBlackburn #Tulia #politics #police #SocialJustice #HumanRights #law

A portrait of Jeff Blackburn, a white man with gray hair, black glasses and a bit of a smirk on his face. He's wearing a tan jacket over a dark gray button-down.