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Attention Desperate Billionaire Tweets Evidence For A Likely Future Wrongful Termination Lawsuit To Own The Libs

Moments before tweeting...Any good student of history knows that there are some time-tested texts that have proven their excellence by their continued relevance. One of those is Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching...

Mar 2023

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Taamneh Case Gave Us A Glimpse Of The Horror Websites Would Face In A Post-Section 230 World

[photo1]Last week I wrote some initial thoughts on the Supreme Court hearing in Gonzalez v. Google. Of course, as lots of people mentioned, it was tied at the hip with another case, Taamneh v. Twitter...

Mar 2023

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Tesla shareholder suit says Musk and co. lied about Full Self-Driving safety

A class-action complaint alleges that Tesla and CEO Elon Musk repeatedly made false statements about the capabilities and safety of the electric carmaker's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) techno...

Feb 2023

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Your 'Simple Solution' To Section 230 Is Bad: Julia Angwin Edition

[photo1]It's getting to be somewhat exhausting watching people who don't understand Section 230 insisting they have a simple solution for whatever problems they think (mostly incorrectly) are created ...

Feb 2023

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Attorney Sued For 'Quiet Quitting' Her Law Firm Job

[photo1]The pandemic changed society in a number of ways, but in terms of our working lives, the biggest impact of COVID was the ubiquity of working from home. That ushered in a number of other trends...

Feb 2023

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The Supreme Court Just Prevented One Of The Most High Stakes Encyclopedia Battles Ever From Happening

(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)Need to prove to your friend that earth worms are hermaphroditic? Wikipedia. Need to prove to a friend how absurd langua...

Feb 2023

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Agrees To Apologize, Pay Millions To Former Aides

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is looking to put at least one of the legal issues he's facing behind him. Acc...

Feb 2023

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Where Else Can You Make $500, Get A Clerkship, And Read AI-Generated Legal Rap? -- See Also

[photo1]Hey Law Students, Don't Miss This Exam! You only get a chance at the $500 if you try!Interested In Successfully Snagging That State Clerkship? Check to see if...

Feb 2023

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Lawsuit: Twitter stopped paying rent at headquarters after Musk took over

Twitter is being sued for alleged nonpayment of rent by the owner of its US headquarters building in San Francisco, the latest of several lawsuits saying Twitter stopped paying bills after...

Jan 2023

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Morning Docket: 01.20.23

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* All right everyone. Let's use our Dr. Evil voices: frivolous lawsuit earns Donald Trump sanction of... one MILLION dollars! Or $937K at least. [NY Times]
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Jan 2023

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BENCHSLAP: Trump And His Lawyers Fined $1M For Filing Garbage RICO Suit Against Hillary Clinton

[photo1]This is not what you want to read when you're on the pointy end of a sanctions order:
This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. N...

Jan 2023

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Twitter hired experts for case against Musk--now Musk won't pay them, lawsuit says

Twitter was sued yesterday by a consulting firm that says it was never paid for work it did on the lawsuit that forced Elon Musk to complete his purchase of the company.
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Jan 2023

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Biglaw Firm Facing Lawsuit Over Hack Of Client Data

[photo1]Now, I'm not a Biglaw firm leader, but I have to imagine one of the things that keeps them up at night is the threat of hackers. It's an ever-present scourge and the firm has a constant stream...

Jan 2023