Several unpublished decisions had already allowed this, but this one is binding precedent; it’s TT v. KL, decided yesterday (written by Justice Jane Markey and joined by Justices Mark Boonstra and Karen Fort Hood): We thus choose to apply the modern trend and conclude that when a respondent challenges a request for a PPO [personal protective […]
From Judge William Orrick’s opinion yesterday in Rock the Vote v. Trump (N.D. Cal.): Executive Order No. 13,925 … announces a policy position expressing concern over allegedly biased content management by online platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and directs federal agencies to take various actions to attempt to combat this purported bias. These actions […]
From Judge Valerie Caproni (S.D.N.Y.) in Wednesday’s Simpson v. Peloton Interactive, Inc.: Petitioner Simpson {“with agreement by Respondent Peloton Interactive, Inc.”} filed a motion to seal nine words from its Petition to Confirm Arbitration and to file the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) Opinion and Interim Award and the AAA Opinion and Final Award completely under […]
UCLA Law’s AI Pulse Project and University of Arizona TechLaw present: The Filter Bubble: What’s the Problem, and what (if anything) should be done about it? A web conversation with Jane Bambauer, David Brin, Mark Lemley, Eugene Volokh, and Ted Parson What: Social media and other online information sources are charged with creating “filter bubbles”: […]
From a Washington Supreme Court unanimous opinion today in In re Recall of White (written by Justice González): In our constitutional democracy, the people elect their own representatives for fixed electoral terms…. Voters have a constitutional mechanism for expressing dissatisfaction with their elected representatives between elections: recall…. Our constitution, however, constrains recall. Most relevantly, a […]
Federal law provides that federal Representatives must be elected “[t]he Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November,” though it lets states set “the time for holding elections in any State … for a Representative … to fill a vacancy, whether such vacancy is caused by a failure to elect at the time prescribed by […]
Dianne F. Harrison, the President of California State University-Northridge, posted the following item to the Cal State Northridge Facebook page earlier this month (referring to an earlier statement): Support for Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh To the Campus Community, I am writing to expand on my message from last week relating to the conflict […]
From The Times (London) (Mark McLaughlin): Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said. Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts if their work is deemed to deliberately stoke up prejudice, H Read More Article from Latest – Reason.com Eugene […]
From a Washington Supreme Court unanimous opinion today in In re Recall of White (written by Justice González): In our constitutional democracy, the people elect their own representatives for fixed electoral terms…. Voters have a constitutional mechanism for expressing dissatisfaction with their elected representatives between elections: recall…. Our constitution, however, constrains recall. Most relevantly, a […]
