Right to Repair

Morning Docket: 06.06.22

* Attempts to hold the Uvalde Police Department accountable may prove difficult. You'd think we'd be better about the quis custodiet ipsos custodes problem after 2,000 years or so. [New York Times] * Esquire of the Caribbean: Top firms want to parlay with Camille Vasquez after her big Johnny Depp win. [New York Post] * The right to repair could be coming to Albany, NY! This is big! [Gothamist] * A company's right to (not) speak still remains murky due to Texas lawmakers. [Washington Post] * The Court is set up to hear a gerrymandering case. Decision could be in by the end of 2023. Let's enjoy voting until then. [New York Times]

Morning Docket: 02.24.22

* Honesty is the best legal policy: Colorado is on the cusp of no longer allowing police officers to lie to children during interrogations. [Oregon Live] * Not this time, Times! Sarah Palin wants a redo after losing her defamation case against the New York Times. Tough crowd, eh? [Reuters] * Texan man pleads guilty to hate crime charge after attacking a Burmese family with a knife. [CNN] * Hate to say I told you so: Woman sues LAPD after they mistook her identity and jailed her for nearly two weeks. [ABC 7] * Over my dead chassis: Subaru and Kia decided to simply make their cars less safe rather than let people fix their own clunkers. [WGRZ]

Automakers Continue Efforts To Scuttle Popular Mass. ‘Right To Repair’ Law

Fighting the tides.

DIYers, Rejoice! John Deere, Not So Much

Now when a Biglaw firm gives you iPods instead of a raise, you can fix them yourself!

Morning Docket: 01.25.22

* If corporations are people, what's next, rivers? Well actually... [NCRonline] * Alabama's attempt at redistricting was thrown out. Does the Voting Right Act still have some teeth left after all? [Reuters] * The use of affirmative action in college admissions is probably next up on the Supreme Court’s chopping block. [USA Today] * Woman is arrested in Texas after trying to buy someone's child at a Wal-Mart for $500k. There are some things you just can't roll back prices on, libertarians. [NBC News] * Police sent the wrong guy to jail because his name was too similar to someone else's. Guess a rose by any other name is bitter after all. [Independent] * The "Right to Repair" movement has some executive backing. Celebrate by doing it yourself! Or paying a third-party vendor. You do you. [Vice]

Congress To Consider National Right To Repair Law For First Time

The first step to returning ownership to the people who buy things.