Correct me if I'm wrong, US #lawfedi, but I'm pretty sure @404mediaco is right that every case of of the landlords accessing the (prospective) tenants' workplace logins is a #CFAA violation, because employees are not legally entitled to authorize the landlord to log into the employers' systems, so the landlords are exceeding their authorized access.

#uslaw #cybercrime

Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.

https://flip.it/hs8S8P

#Books @bookstodon#USLaw#Copyright#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Anthropic

Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.

https://flip.it/hs8S8P

#Books @bookstodon#USLaw#Copyright#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Anthropic

America's partisan gerrymandering mess dates back to a 2019 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Rucho v. Common Cause, "the five Republican judges held that court challenges to partisan gerrymanders could not go forward in federal courts because such cases present a 'political question,'" Jay Willis writes for Balls and Strikes. "What is happening in Texas and California and elsewhere right now demonstrates just how vapid and hollow the reasoning in 'Rucho' always was. You do not have to have a law degree to understand that a Texas map that transforms a 56-42 advantage into a 79-21 blowout is not, in any meaningful sense, fair. You do not need to be a Supreme Court justice to understand that a California map that would turn Kamala Harris’s 58 percent vote share in 2024 into 94 percent of power in the House does not allow for equal participation in the political process.
But this is the price that 'Rucho' is forcing millions of voters to pay."

https://flip.it/lj555g

#USLaw#USSupremeCourt#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#RuchoVCommonCause#Rucho

America's partisan gerrymandering mess dates back to a 2019 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Rucho v. Common Cause, "the five Republican judges held that court challenges to partisan gerrymanders could not go forward in federal courts because such cases present a 'political question,'" Jay Willis writes for Balls and Strikes. "What is happening in Texas and California and elsewhere right now demonstrates just how vapid and hollow the reasoning in 'Rucho' always was. You do not have to have a law degree to understand that a Texas map that transforms a 56-42 advantage into a 79-21 blowout is not, in any meaningful sense, fair. You do not need to be a Supreme Court justice to understand that a California map that would turn Kamala Harris’s 58 percent vote share in 2024 into 94 percent of power in the House does not allow for equal participation in the political process.
But this is the price that 'Rucho' is forcing millions of voters to pay."

https://flip.it/lj555g

#USLaw#USSupremeCourt#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#RuchoVCommonCause#Rucho

A judge has ruled that Alex Jones' far-right platform, Infowars, can be sold to help pay the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Last year, The Onion had won a court-mandated auction for Infowars' parent company but this was halted by a federal bankruptcy judge. This new ruling paves the way for The Onion to revive its bid. Jones has yet to pay a cent of the more than $1 billion in damages he owes Sandy Hook families for repeated defamatory claims that the massacre was a hoax. On his show on Wednesday, he railed against the families, but says he will keep broadcasting under a different brand. Here's more from @CNN.

https://flip.it/g7d1iE
#Infowars#AlexJones#SandyHook#TheOnion#USLaw#Defamation#USNews

A judge has ruled that Alex Jones' far-right platform, Infowars, can be sold to help pay the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Last year, The Onion had won a court-mandated auction for Infowars' parent company but this was halted by a federal bankruptcy judge. This new ruling paves the way for The Onion to revive its bid. Jones has yet to pay a cent of the more than $1 billion in damages he owes Sandy Hook families for repeated defamatory claims that the massacre was a hoax. On his show on Wednesday, he railed against the families, but says he will keep broadcasting under a different brand. Here's more from @CNN.

https://flip.it/g7d1iE
#Infowars#AlexJones#SandyHook#TheOnion#USLaw#Defamation#USNews

You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/civilians-impersonating-ice-officers

That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.

#ICE #Trump#USLaw#USPol#USPolitics

You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/civilians-impersonating-ice-officers

That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.

#ICE #Trump#USLaw#USPol#USPolitics

Update. "Scientists sue #NIH, saying politics cut their research funding"
https://apnews.com/article/nih-funding-trump-dei-research-094ed2abe5ba529cdb74f7e0b429c4f3

"A group of scientists and health groups sued the NIH on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures…The suit was filed by the American Public Health Association [ #APHA], unions representing scientists and some researchers who were stripped of grants."

A similar suit has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union ( #ACLU), the Center for Science in the Public Interest ( #CSPI), and the Protect Democracy Project ( #PDP).
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/aclu-sues-national-institutes-health-ideological-purge-research-projec-rcna199360

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Here are some press releases and news stories on the lawsuit against the #Trump admin by American Association of University Professors (#AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (#AFT).

* From the AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful

* From the AFT
https://www.aft.org/press-release/faculty-unions-sue-trump-admin-no-halting-science-research-suppress-speech

* From The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/pro-palestine-student-deportation-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

* From the NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/professors-sue-trump.html

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #MahmoudKhalil #Protests #Travel #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Update. If you're following this thread, you might also follow Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to #Trump Administration Actions, from #JustSecurity.
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

#USLaw#USPol#USPolitics

"Trump Just Broke the Law. Blatantly. And He Might Get Away With It.
How is this not a major political scandal already? Hello, Democrats?"
https://newrepublic.com/article/190704/trump-fires-inspectors-general-broke-law-blatantly

My sympathies to news editors who will have to think of new ways to word this headline every day for four years.

#Journalism #Trump#USLaw#USPol#USPolitics