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• On the post: Big Telecom, Robocallers, Love Brendan Carr’s Plan To Lobotomize The FCC

  

  carahan ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2025 @ 10:53am

  Unfortunately, everyone here also knows the FCC is going to ignore any comments regardless of merit that go against their desired corporate leech on the body politic.

• On the post: Private Contractors, Fired Cops Are Making ‘Gang Member’ Determinations For ICE

  

  carahan ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2025 @ 01:25pm

  What the government is actually doing: Trump maladmin: Here's some money, go tell the judge over there the person we want to hurt is evil. Opinion Launderer: That guy is evil. No conflict of interest whatsoever.

• On the post: Nikola Finally Files For Chapter 11 To Try To Wind Down Smoothly

  

  carahan ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2025 @ 01:07pm

  There were deliveries of the Nikola Two so presumably there is something to examine both product and factory, as well as the books indicating suppliers and what was delivered. So it is certainly resolvable. Whether it will be done well is a different question.

• On the post: South Dakota Republicans: Let’s Start Jailing Librarians

  

  carahan ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2025 @ 11:22am

  Don't forget South Dakota's other qualifies. Such as (in combination with federal law) abolishing usury, abolishing the rule against perpetuities governing trusts, allowing trusts that benefits the trustor, and making trusts secret. All things ordinary people are interested in. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-american-tax-haven-why-the-super-rich-love-south-dakota-trust-laws

• On the post: New Ohio Law Allows Cops To Charge $75/Hr. To Process Body Cam Footage

  

  carahan ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2025 @ 10:56am

  I can't possibly see how this is constitutional for a criminal case. You have a right to relevant evidence for your defense.

• On the post: SCOTUS Turns TikTok Ban Case Into TikTok-Style Short Attention Span Theater

  

  carahan ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2024 @ 01:45pm

  Or, more accurately, give the appearance of listening. I have long since abandoned all hope of this Supreme Court in the current composition actually ruling on merits of cases.

• On the post: Monster Energy Loses Trademark Application Appeal In India For ‘Energy For The Journey’

  

  carahan ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2024 @ 09:27am

  The USPTO is like a dog and wants to be petted by the companies that apply for trademarks. That's why they'll approve just about anything for trademark no matter what the law says.

• On the post: FTC’s Lina Khan Takes Aim At Sneaky Fees On Her Way Out The Door

  

  carahan ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2024 @ 09:19am

  As much as I feel this rule is probably actually required by contract laws, and should be duplicative, judges are remarkably okay with throwing away basic tenants of contract law when it comes to hidden fees. I fear with an all Republican controlled government they will use the Congressional Review Act to not only block this rule, but will also prevent the FTC from considering any rules regarding this forever - until Congress stops being a bunch of corporate lapdogs. Good luck with the latter.

• On the post: In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That’s Largely Good News

  

  carahan ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2024 @ 03:11pm

  Dissenting opinions have always been dicta. Dicta is anything not relevant to the legal holding. That doesn't mean they're not important.

• On the post: Rep. Jerry Nadler’s Shocking Misrepresentation Of Copyright Law

  

  carahan ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2024 @ 10:25am

  That was an amazing amount of wrong compressed in so few words by Jerry Nadler. I've seen compression algorithms less effective than that.

• On the post: Trump Threatens To Sue ProPublica For Reporting On Payouts To Witnesses In His Various Cases

  

  carahan ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2024 @ 10:07am

  California had the right idea naming their anti-SLAPP process a "motion to strike". Strike back against SLAPPs.

• On the post: OMFG Here Come The ‘News’ Outlets To Do ShotSpotter’s PR Heavy Lifting For It

  

  carahan ( profile ), 22 May, 2024 @ 12:56pm

  “People are uneducated about what ShotSpotter really is,” former CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson said. That's right, they do not. And if they were educated instead of just exposed to this terrible PR repetition they would be rather unhappy with it.

• On the post: Discovery CEO Zaslav Gets A Big Fat Raise Despite Being Terrible At His Job

  

  carahan ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2024 @ 02:13pm

  Everyone knows what is going on here. Board of Directors and CEOs hire friends and family and get to choose their own pay. Who wouldn't choose to pay themselves more if they had a choice?

• On the post: Jim Jordan Demands Major Ad Companies Explain Why They Won’t Advertise On Truth Social

  

  carahan ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2024 @ 01:43pm

  It is only a matter of time before Musk finds out about that meme and deletes it; thus truly failing to grok that post.

• On the post: Elon Recreates The Lords & Peasants Bluecheck System He Hated, But Makes Sure It’s Even Dumber

  

  carahan ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2024 @ 01:36pm

  You forgot the scammers, crammers, grifters, hornswaglers, cattlerustlers, crypto bros, white supremacists, Nazi, Neo-Nazis, bigots, misogynists, and other scum and villainy. Sometimes you get to even mix and match the adjectives together!

• On the post: 10th Circuit Appeals Court Says 68 Days Of Pole Camera Surveillance Doesn’t Violate 4th Amendment

  

  carahan ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2024 @ 11:47am

  If the government can do something that would earn a private citizen a restraining order for stalking without a warrant then something is very wrong with either the interpreters of the law or the law itself.

• On the post: Florida Senator Introduces Bill That Would Make Accusations Of Racism, Transphobia De Facto Defamation

  

  carahan ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2024 @ 04:03pm

  This sort of douchebaggery was the reason the justices of New York Times v. Sullivan seriously considered issuing a judgement that defamation as a tort was violation of the First Amendment outright. Defamation as a tort only survived by one vote. The "actual malice" standard was the compromise.

• On the post: Google Sues Over Bogus, Anti-Competitive DMCA Takedowns

  

  carahan ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2023 @ 01:04pm

  I have translated the legal proceeding into Gen Z: Google: Press F to doubt the sincerity of the defendant. Judge: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

• On the post: Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue To Reverse T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised Everybody’s Prices

  

  carahan ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2023 @ 08:11am

  One of the biggest cons ever pulled is businesses representing to the public they actually like a free market. What businesses consistently want is less regulation when they are small to make it easier to break in with less overhead regardless of the consequences. And when they become the established major players to have the protection of law such as copyright, patent, and trademark, difficulty to lay cable as broad as possible to prevent competitors.

• On the post: Starbucks Joins The List Of Companies Using Trademark Law To Bully Its Own Union

  

  carahan ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2023 @ 12:51pm

  The 9th Circuit allows state anti-SLAPPs to be used. But it won't help here. The Starbucks Union was formed in New York, 2nd Circuit, which has ruled it won't accept New York state's new anti-SLAPP.

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