Free Speech
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From the that’s-not-how-any-of-this-works dept.
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Georgia’s Secretary Of State Slapped With Frivolous Lawsuits: The Case For A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law
From the protect-free-speech-for-real dept.
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Elon Musk Says Advertisers Are Doing The RICO If They Don’t Give Him Money
Free speech absolutist explains that ‘free speech’ means ‘forcing everyone to give him money.’
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First Amendments… how do they work?!?
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Appeals Court: Just Because Speech Provokes Negative Reactions Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Protected
From the maybe-address-the-people-that-are-handling-the-speech-poorly dept.
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A TikTok Ban Is A Pointless Political Turd For Democrats
From the election-season-seppuku dept.
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Delaware State Police Pay $50,000 To Man Troopers Ticketed For Flipping Them Off
From the no-problem,-the-taxpayers-are-good-for-it dept.
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He’s about as good at free speech as he is with rockets.
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Montana Won’t Be Able To Hit The Finisher On TikTok Without Addressing The Constitution
To think that there would be this much trouble over the dance app.
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* Fifth Circuit judge scolds attorney for “personal attack” because she accurately described the district court opinion as unprecedented. As Inigo Montoya would put it, “I don’t think that word means what Judge Elrod thinks it means. [Slate]
* After watching Disney’s experience beating up on Florida lawyers, Penguin Random House is starting to sue Florida school districts for banning books. [AP]
* Montana has banned TikTok in a reminder that “free speech” is now limited to punishing students for carrying mean signs during FedSoc events. [Wall Street Journal]
* Deutsche Bank paying $75 million to settle claims that the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Another win for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Pottinger representing Epstein’s victims. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts US Attorney accused of abuse of power “to achieve a political goal epitomiz[ing] the type of ‘political justice’ that Congress intended to prohibit.” Too bad she wasn’t a judge taking free vacations from parties before the court… she’d be home free by now.[Law360]
* WilmerHale earned 5 percent of its total revenue from Meta, the company you remember as Facebook before they completely retooled to chase a creepy VR chat room that they’ve since killed after costing the company about $13 billion. Which is all to say that Wilmer may want to diversify its revenue streams at this rate. [Bloomberg Law News]
* A discussion of Shadow Docket by Steve Vladeck (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]
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People Annoying You On Facebook? Block Them. Unless You Are A Government Official, Maybe?
The Supreme Court will take any case to distract us from Clarence Thomas being bankrolled for the last 20 years, huh?
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Middle School Sued After Getting Stupid About ‘Justice For Lil Pickle’ T-Shirts Worn By Students
Feel free to craft your own ‘in a pickle’ joke.
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Yes, The US Government Threatening To Block TikTok Violates The 1st Amendment
From the free-speech-until-china-builds-a-successful-app? department….
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When Free Speech Cost $8: Musk’s Twitter Censorship Is Going About As You’d Expect It To
This is what we get for you lot all joking that Twitter shouldn’t be free.
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‘Keep digging’ is good advice for the Boring Company… less sound when you’re in trouble over your social media company.
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What To Do When Free Speech No Longer Pays The Bills?
Antitrust and Constitutional law scholars, you’re up!
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