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• On the post: Confused Judge Grants Project Veritas' Prior Restraint Against The NY Times

  

  z! ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2021 @ 12:29pm

  Re: Crowd exceptionalism

  Or shouting Theater at a crowded fire.

• On the post: Confused Judge Grants Project Veritas' Prior Restraint Against The NY Times

  

  z! ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2021 @ 12:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Other Side

  Not if they colluded.
  Koby, you seem hung up on the word "collusion" when the word "conspire" would do admirably; but then there needs to be a reason to conspire and at least two parties willing to do so. They picked the fruit of the poisoned tree.
  That legal metaphor applies to admission of evidence in court and relates to the 4th, not to news materials and the 1st.

• On the post: Hey The North Face! When You Said Sending Us A Bogus Trademark Threat Was A Mistake, We Believed You; So Why Did You Do It Again?

  

  z! ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2021 @ 10:10am

  "It's not that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, it's that the left hand doesn't know there are other hands."
  --attributed to a great many people

• On the post: Hey North Face! Our Story About You Flipping Out Over 'Hey Fuck Face' Is Not Trademark Infringement

  

  z! ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2021 @ 01:12pm

  Reminds me a bit of Jordache Enterprises Inc. v Hogg Wyld Ltd. (which made Lardashe designer jeans). It did not go well for the plaintiff.

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-16-fi-5318-story.html

• On the post: Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, And A Bunch Of Other Trump-Loving Lawyers Hit With Sanctions In Michigan

  

  z! ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2021 @ 06:19pm

  Re: Best news in years!

  (more like mandarin-in-chief, not as big as a tangerine) Federal pardons won't help with the state bar and judiciary.

• On the post: Devin Nunes' Lawyer Loses (Again) On Blatantly Silly RICO Lawsuit Against Google For 'Anti-Conservative Bias' In Search Results

  

  z! ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2021 @ 12:57pm

  Re:

  Beg to differ on that.

• On the post: Techdirt Has Been Released From A Gag Order Regarding A Federal Investigation Into A Silly Comment

  

  z! ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2021 @ 11:53am

  "Yes, sir. Please give me your contact information and I'll forward it to the Subpoena Compliance Officer. It may take a few days for them to respond since they haven't been hired yet."

• On the post: Judge Ignores First Amendment, Misreads Town Law, While Ordering Resident To Remove 'Fuck Biden' Signs

  

  z! ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2021 @ 12:22pm

  Re:

  If it was an HOA, they wouldn't have a prayer. Well, no. HOA's are not immune from the Constitution, no matter how much they may think they are. And including unconstitutional clauses in a contract does not make them enforceable.

• On the post: Judge Ignores First Amendment, Misreads Town Law, While Ordering Resident To Remove 'Fuck Biden' Signs

  

  z! ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2021 @ 12:19pm

  Re: Re:

  If it was an HOA, they wouldn't have a prayer. Well, no. HOA's are not immune from the Constitution, no matter how much they may think they are. And including unconstitutional clauses in a contract does not make them enforceable.

• On the post: Conservatives Want Common Carriage. They're Not Going to Like It.

  

  z! ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2021 @ 12:33pm

  Conservatives cry-
  Less government regulation (unless we thought of it)!
  Let people do whatever they want (unless we don't like it)!

• On the post: Supreme Court Says The Community Caretaking Exception Doesn't Apply To Warrantless Searches Of People's Homes

  

  z! ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2021 @ 09:44am

  Re: Re: Well

  SCOTUS is the biggest enemy of the BillofRights and still waffling even in this decision. A unanimous decision with multiple concurrences doesn't sound like much of a waffle, here. Please point us to the waffles (page/section would be handy).

• On the post: New York Police Union Tells NYPD End Of Qualified Immunity Will Force Officers To… Act Lawfully

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 May, 2021 @ 11:26am

  Re:

  Unfortunately, IIRC a SCOTUS decision a couple of years ago ("broken tail light") said they don't (currently) need to know the laws they say they're enforcing. That also needs to change.

• On the post: Court To Cops: Waiting Sixteen Months To Search A Seized Phone Violates The Fourth Amendment

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 May, 2021 @ 11:41am

  contained only innocuous texts with defendant’s family and cat pictures

• On the post: Signal Founder Cracks Cellebrite Phone Hacking Device, Finds It Full Of Vulns

  

  z! ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2021 @ 08:28am

  One DLL used to handle extracted video content hasn't been updated since 2012, ignoring more than 100 patches that have been made available since then.

  Another article identifies that as ffmpeg, so it's really likely there's an LGPL/GPL violation there. Makes me wonder about how much other open-source code might be in there.

• On the post: Reporter Sues DOJ To See If It Is Trying To Help Devin Nunes Unmask @DevinCow Twitter Account

  

  z! ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2021 @ 02:39pm

  I wonder if Nunes can stomach the response, wouldn't be surprised if he tries to horn in on it.

• On the post: Appeals Court Affirms $1.5 Million Restitution Judgment Against Paul Hansmeier

  

  z! ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2021 @ 09:40am

  Isn't Hansmeier still in bankruptcy (or has that been discharged)? If I'm not mistaken, court orders move to the head of the line for payment from the estate.

• On the post: Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture

  

  z! ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2021 @ 05:28pm

  28 days?

  It would be sensible for google to provide a notification every hour that they're "changing the algorithms". Of course, what's announced today and what's implemented in four weeks may vary.

• On the post: Trump's Support Of Cops Pays Off: Multiple Police Officers Under Investigation For Illegal Invasion Of The Capitol Building

  

  z! ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2021 @ 05:23pm

  Re: Re:

  No, democrats hold 20th century traditional soviet values You have an extra comma in there.

• On the post: Despite RIAA's Claim That YouTube-dl Is Infringing, Journalists Use It All The Time

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2020 @ 09:17am

  Re: Downloading is killing streaming!

  I really wish people wouldn't use "disappear" as an active verb. That's like calling a question an "ask".

• On the post: Aussie Brewer Keeps Digging Holes With Trademark Lawsuits, Now Owes Court Costs

  

  z! ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 09:13am

  Which, of course, would run straight into Legend Brewing (although the latter being in Richmond Virginia, USA, they probably won't care).

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