As the #Trump WH prepares to release its budget proposal Friday, the impasse over #DOGE reflects a looming challenge for the admin’s vision of a sprawling overhaul of #FederalAgencies. With both the #courts & #Congress refusing to provide #legal cover to spending cuts that #Musk forced through, the admin is running out of options for ensuring that its #unilateral reductions take effect—potentially limiting DOGE’s lasting impact despite the #disruption it brought to the govt.
EU fines TikTok token amount of €530 million for gross privacy violations
A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in breach of strict EU data privacy rules.
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The #Trump admin is appealing a lower court decision to free #MohsenMahdawi, a permanent #legal resident & an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at #Columbia who had been detained at his court appointment for becoming a #US #citizen on April 14. After he was released from federal custody on Wed following the lower court order, Mahdawi offered a defiant message to Trump & his ofcls: “I am saying it clear & loud. I am not afraid of you.”
#law #immigration #dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/01/us/trump-news/8cbefa1a-9ef1-59d0-aef7-4f0e5738ef11?smid=url-share
The night sky has long been caught between two notions of 'environment': one on the ground and the other among the stars. But these two realms are much more closely connected than previously believed. Protecting natural nighttime darkness by reducing light pollution may benefit from a shift in thinking that sees an explicit connection between Earth and cosmos. Read more about how adopting this view would bring both a different ethic and a jurisprudence to bear on the issue.
The #Trump admin today, May 1, asked #SCOTUS to allow it to strip temporary protected status [#TPS] from >300,000 #Venezuelan migrants, a move that would clear the way for their #deportation. The #DOJ asked the justices to put on hold US District Judge Edward Chen's order that halted #DHS Secy #KristiNoem's decision to terminate the temporary #legal status that previously was granted to some #Venezuelans by President Joe #Biden's admin.
"The report, published Tuesday, found the rate of police-reported crime in rural Canadian communities was 34 per cent higher than the urban rate. That disparity was especially pronounced across the Prairies and in rural British Columbia.
The report found violent crime had higher rates in rural areas. But unlike nearly every other violent offence, robbery rates in urban centres were 3.5 times higher than in rural areas.
Federal Court gives green light to part of ’60s Scoop’ class action lawsuit
"The ’60s Scoop refers to a period when governments in Canada oversaw the large-scale removal of Indigenous children from their homes to live outside of their communities, mostly with non-Indigenous caregivers."
#Indigenous #Canada #Legal #FirstNations
https://globalnews.ca/news/11159919/federal-court-sixties-scoop-survivors-class-action-lawsuit/
#EmilBove insisted that the #Instagram account in question had been used to make a threat, while line prosecutors said the statement at issue did not meet the #legal definition of a #threat. In late March, the #SocialMedia company suspended the group’s account for failing to meet its “community standards.”
Judge rules #Apple exec lied under oath, refers case for criminal proceedings… Here’s some of what the Judge said in her ruling: “This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is of the essence. The Court will not tolerate further delays. As previously ordered, Apple will not impede competition. The Court enjoins Apple from implementing its new anticompetitive acts to avoid compliance with the Injunction. Effective immediately Apple will no longer impede developers’ ability to communicate with users nor will they levy or impose a new commission on off-app purchases.” #legal #apps #AppStore #developers #AntiTrust #DeveloperFees #competition #monopoly
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied
Nike is facing a lawsuit from people who bought its NFTs
A group of people sued Nike this week over its decision to wind down its virtual show project RTFKT last year. The buyers of the digital assets accuse Nike of causing “the rug to be pulled out from under them,” and say they wouldn’t have bought its NFTs if they’d known they were “unregistered securities,”
#NFT #NFTs #cryptokicks #web3 #RTFKT #nike #legal #technology #tech
https://www.theverge.com/news/656960/nike-lawsuit-rtfkt-nft-virtual-shoes
…However, experts wonder whether it could have #legal implications. Though critics have argued from the beginning that #TRUMP could create a pathway for #bribery—by investing large sums into the coin, driving up its price, politically motivated actors could theoretically curry favor with the president—the dinner brings the risk of violating emoluments restrictions into stark relief.
The #FairUse question hangs over lawsuits brought by #authors, #news outlets & other #copyright owners against companies including #Meta, #OpenAI & #Anthropic. The #legal doctrine allows for the use of copyrighted work without the copyright owner's permission under some circumstances.
The authors in the Meta case sued in 2023, arguing the company used pirated versions of their books to train #LLaMa without permission or compensation.
The #Fosstodon controversy is an excellent example of why the #decentralization of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is not a panacea and not a substitute for #Justice.
As I have said on numerous occasions, what the world needs is broad agreement on comprehensive professional #moral, #ethical, #legal, and #procedural #standards for the operation of public private spaces that includes a firm commitment to #Equality and mechanisms for community and legal #accountability and an #appellate #process.
A Florida judge is considering a motion to prevent enforcement of a law allowing law enforcement to arrest undocumented immigrants. The ACLU challenges the legality, raising concerns over civil rights and privacy implications. What are your thoughts on the balance between state law and individual rights? #Legal #Privacy
Read more: https://steelefamlaw.com/EL3oa0
"Google CEO warns judge a breakup of search empire 'will have many unintended consequences'".
Yes, that's true, and no doubt the searcher experience will suffer as a result.
But the problems - the reasons why these DOJ+states lawsuits happened in the first place - are the INTENDED consequences of Google's uncompetitive practices.
That's the price you need to pay for chasing ever-increasing revenues at any cost.
Justice #Sotomayor called out #Trump’s Solicitor General D. John Sauer for the federal govt’s change in position on the role of #CharterSchools. In response, Sauer said, “What changed is there’s a new administration.”
A change in admins didn’t used to mean a change the govt’s #legal position.
Sauer said his argument in favor of the #Catholic charter school does not imply that #religious charter schools would be permitted to reject students based on their religions.
The UK's only transgender judge plans to take the government to the ECHR over a biological sex ruling.
A controversial decision recently issued by the UK's Supreme Court ruled that existing equalities legislation does not protect trans people from sex discrimination according to their preferred gender.
The UK's only openly transgender judge is now planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
blog! “Is enhancement the same as manipulation?”
How far can you enhance an image or video before you cross the line into manipulation?
The UK is currently prosecuting two men accused of a crime. Part of the prosecution's evidence is a video. In showing it to the jury, the prosecution have said:
the two minute and 41 second-long video is "extremely dark" but the…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/is-enhancement-the-same-as-manipulation/
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#AI #law #legal
#Legal experts have called the suit baseless & an easy victory for #CBS. But #Paramount is entering the talks prepared to make a deal.
In an April 18 meeting, the Paramount board outlined acceptable financial terms for a potential settlement w/ #Trump, acc/to 3 people…. The exact dollar amounts remain unclear, but the board’s move clears a path for an out-of-court resolution.
Sometimes the hardest decisions in life bear the sweetest rewards, as our writer learned when he left a suit-and-tie law practice in Connecticut for a barnyard in the Green Mountain State, and found untold enrichment. #lawyers #legal #rural
Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor
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