The #CourtOrders issued Tues marked an escalation, signaling active efforts by the #judges to appoint the district’s top federal prosecutor under a #federal #law that gives them the power to do so after an interim #USattorney has been in office for 120 days. That order by Lauck was followed hours later with another one from Novak, who raised the threat of #disciplinary action for anyone who describes #LindseyHalligan as the #US attorney in #legal filings.
#Trump #law #judiciary #DOJ #LegalEthics

Federal #judges move to oust #Trump stooge #LindseyHalligan as #USattorney

Her appointment was ruled #unlawful, but she has refused to step down.

In a pair of extraordinary moves, 2 federal judges issued #CourtOrders Tues saying they intend to remove Halligan from the helm of a key US attorney’s office in Virginia & threatening #disciplinary #sanctions for any govt #lawyer who continues to refer to her as US attorney in #legal filings.

#law #judiciary #DOJ #LegalEthics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/20/halligan-judges-standoff-virginia-prosecutor/

Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/how-metas-lawyers-perfected-the-playbook

#HackerNews #Meta #Legal #Team #Ethical #Duties #Abandonment #Law #Ethics

⏰ #FOSDEM is around the corner! And we will be in the middle of it all!
Have a look at our amazing talks about #FreeSoftware #Policy #Legal topics ..., happening all over FOSDEM.
You do not want to miss any of our sessions?
🫶 Follow us and stay tuned for more info about FSFE at FOSDEM.
And of course, you can find us at our booth, building K Level 2, stand 9.

https://fsfe.org/events/

Hey esq.social folks (and others) be on the lookout for spoofed accounts sending DMs looking to retain #legal services. I know of at least two instances, one of an esq.social member and another from the main #Mastodon.social instance. #mastodon

Hey esq.social folks (and others) be on the lookout for spoofed accounts sending DMs looking to retain #legal services. I know of at least two instances, one of an esq.social member and another from the main #Mastodon.social instance. #mastodon

I've got a little "toolchain" to convert #Markdown documents to PDF using #Pandoc and a custom LaTeX template. It generally works like a charm, but I'm now struggling with some #legal documents, where paragraphs are typically expected to be numbered and ideally nested/indented across multiple levels.

I can sort of handle it with my toolchain if I hardcode the numbers in the Markdown, although that feels a bit brittle.

Anyone has any tricks for creating legal docs in Markdown+Pandoc+LaTeX?

I've got a little "toolchain" to convert #Markdown documents to PDF using #Pandoc and a custom LaTeX template. It generally works like a charm, but I'm now struggling with some #legal documents, where paragraphs are typically expected to be numbered and ideally nested/indented across multiple levels.

I can sort of handle it with my toolchain if I hardcode the numbers in the Markdown, although that feels a bit brittle.

Anyone has any tricks for creating legal docs in Markdown+Pandoc+LaTeX?

In addition to #federal #immunity, the agent could argue that his actions were reasonable under the #Constitution, that he acted in self-defense or that he did not act with intent to harm or kill.

Federal officers are immune from #civil lawsuits unless their conduct clearly violated a constitutional right.

This #legal standard, known as #QualifiedImmunity, has become a highly effective tool for shielding #police officers accused of using #ExcessiveForce.

#Trump #ICE #law #murder #UseOfForce

However, at a press conference, #Trump blamed #Venezuela for “stealing” US #oil interests & said Washington would take them back & planned to run Venezuela for a period of time, without offering specifics.

Experts in #InternationalLaw said the Trump admin had muddled the #legal issues by claiming the operation was both a targeted law enforcement mission & the potential prelude to long-term control of Venezuela by the #US.

#UNSC #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #sovereignty

"there is a better way to respond to #tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, & we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines of #business of the most profitable #US companies are all vulnerable to a simple #legal change that will make things cheaper for billions of people, all over the #world, including in the US, at the expense of the companies whose CEOs posed w/ #Trump on the inaugural dais."
- @pluralistic

https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/

#News #Press

"there is a better way to respond to #tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, & we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines of #business of the most profitable #US companies are all vulnerable to a simple #legal change that will make things cheaper for billions of people, all over the #world, including in the US, at the expense of the companies whose CEOs posed w/ #Trump on the inaugural dais."
- @pluralistic

https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/

#News #Press

Texas App Store Age Verification Law Blocked by Federal Judge

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/

#HackerNews #Texas #App #Store #Age #Verification #Law #Federal #Judge #Blocked #Legal #News

An amazing resource by EFF around age verification on the internet.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back

#ageverification #eff #tech #internet #legal #privacy
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If you think "legal = good" you are a nazi

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme #law #legal #legality #voting

We are proud to share with you the schedule for the #FOSDEM #Legal & #Policy DevRoom where
hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike will share their knowledge with the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/

(We = @richardfontana @tmarble
@conservancy 's
@bkuhn @karen and @fsfe 's @lexelas & myself + our speakers and of course the @fosdem crew without whom this would not exist 👏 )

New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication in the spotlight:

➡️ Dogwhistles, #Discrimination, #Humour and the #Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging

🔗 https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.19789

Read our interview with corresponding author Jennifer Young (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social):

🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-dogwhistles-discrimination-humour-and-the-law-regulat

#regulation #legal #OpenScience

O'saasy License Agreement

https://osaasy.dev/

#HackerNews #Osaasy #License #Agreement #Osaasy #Dev #Technology #News #Legal #Tech

We are proud to share with you the schedule for the #FOSDEM #Legal & #Policy DevRoom where
hackers, developers, contributors,
lawyers, and decision-makers alike will share their knowledge with the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/legal/

(We = @richardfontana @tmarble
@conservancy 's
@bkuhn @karen and @fsfe 's @lexelas & myself + our speakers and of course the @fosdem crew without whom this would not exist 👏 )

An amazing resource by EFF around age verification on the internet.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back

#ageverification #eff #tech #internet #legal #privacy
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