Moscow has refused to hand over the building after Poland ordered the consulate to close last year.
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Monday’s batch of orders brought a rare bit of good news at the Supreme Court. The justices announced that they will hear _Kian v. Florida_ next year, setting the stage for the court to strike down Florida’s Jim Crow–era law allowing six-member criminal juries.
The Sixth Amendment requires, among many other things, that criminal trials be conducted before an “impartial jury.” In nearly every…
Google’s AI overviews are accurate 91% of the time! Which means 9% of the time, the AI is just making stuff up. [NYT, archive] That’s not good enough when the AI hallucinates that someone’s a crook. Two publishing houses in Munich sued Google for defamation when the AI overview made out they were involved in […]
The reported victim, Semyon Skrepetsky, was an artist whose work ridiculed Putin.
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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—A Richmond judge denied two motions against the Democrat Party of Virginia and Gov. Abigail Spanberger Monday in a defamation case, and the plaintiff told the Daily Signal that he plans to appeal the decisions. “I will be appealing these decisions,” Thomas Speciale, a retired Army intelligence officer and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate,...
In an emergency motion, the NCAA on Monday petitioned the Court of Appeals for the 7th District of Texas to stay a trial judge’s ruling that allows Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play in the upcoming college football season. Sorsby recently admitted to betting on his own team, and he placed more than 9,000 sports […]
The Big 12 on Sunday sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Texas Tech University and several Texas Tech officials, arguing that Paxton and Texas Tech’s threats to sue the conference if it punishes the university for playing quarterback Brendan Sorsby violate the First Amendment and federal antitrust law. Paxton last week threatened to sue the […]
The FBI says it has already seized multiple drones and made at least one arrest since World Cup matches began last week, warning that individuals flying aerial devices near event sites could face fines of up to $100,000.
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It is believed that the woman conducted medical tests on the foetuses at her home.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has today announced that under-16s in the U.K. are to be banned from social media.
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In the first two years of post-_Dobbs_ America, 412 people were charged with “pregnancy-related” crimes, with 399 of these being related to substance use—including alcohol. These charges, which most frequently alleged either child abuse or neglect of the fetus, were made possible by politicians who have slow-dripped the language and ideology of fetal personhood into lawmaking for decades, a…
The legal saga featuring Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has already disrupted college sports, with a judge this week ruling the 22-year-old can play despite having bet on his team—heretofore a cardinal sin in sports, and one that can lead to a permanent ban in the NCAA just like in other sports associations. But the real fireworks […]
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The Supreme Court did something extraordinary on Thursday night: It refused to help the state of Alabama carry out an execution. Since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has almost never intervened in capital cases on the defendants’ behalf. The justices have even overridden lower courts’ stays so that executions could take place on the…
Conservative commentator and aspiring politician Lyle Shelton has faced another set back in his years long vilification case against two drag performers. The former ACL director fronted the Supreme court ...
The post Lyle Shelton Loses Again In Drag Story Time Vilification Case appeared first on Star Observer.
Insta360 has countersued DJI for what it asserts are violations of five utility patents covering technology used in gimbal and 360-degree cameras. Insta360 claims these technologies are incorporated into several major DJI products, including the Osmo Pocket, Ronin/RS, Osmo Mobile, and Osmo 360.
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Police have launched an investigation after a popular macro photographer had over $10,000 worth of his specialist camera gear stolen from his locked car.
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Sports are governed by rules. Those rules separate a ball from a strike, a fumble from an incomplete pass, and foul balls from a fair. Without rules, sporting events are nothing more than random people getting some exercise. And without people to enforce those rules, there is no integrity, no fairness, and no genuine competition.
By those standards, college sports is currently the world’s most…
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The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump just took a pivotal step toward removing government-endorsed discrimination from America’s legal system and undermining the institutional apparatus of critical race theory. Critical race theory teaches that America is systemically racist and that even racially neutral policies are truly racist if they result in better outcomes for...
This morning, DJI filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Insta360, asserting it violated both design and utility patents. Insta360 is preparing its defense.
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DJI has filed two patent lawsuits against Arashi Vision Inc., which does business as Insta360, regarding its new Luna gimbal camera. One lawsuit alleges two violations of design patents while the other alleges four utility patent violations.
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The legislation is intended to clamp down on what is known in Poland as patostreaming (a portmanteau of "pathological" and "streaming").
Stanford football player Charlie Mirer and USC football player Talanoa Ili sued the NCAA, CSC, power conferences and others on Tuesday over alleged violations of California and federal law in the way the House v. NCAA settlement restrains economic opportunities. They seek for their case to eventually be certified as a class action on behalf of […]
On June 9, Chief Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Mary H. Murguia issued an Order in the case of Jeffery B. Sedlik v. Katherine von Drachenberg, aka Kat Von D, et. al. granting an en banc rehearing by the full court.
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The special masters for the NFL concussion settlement on Monday found that five law firms representing 98 retired NFL players with Parkinson’s disease claims “surreptitiously outsourced” decisions on diagnoses and “compromised their clients’ claims.” Special masters are subject-matter experts appointed by judges to manage implementations of settlements in complex litigation. They have authority…
The 2024 death of Mateusz Sitek caused outrage in Poland and prompted the government to further toughen border security measures.
The newest legal crisis in college sports is also the latest sign of the complex relationship between college athletes and their schools, conferences and the NCAA in the increasingly commercialized world of college sports. Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who reportedly received a $5 million deal to join the Red Raiders as a transfer from […]
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In 2018, David Tyson Jr., an African American, sued Richardson Independent School District in Texas for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In the district’s 164-year history, Tyson was the only person of color ever to serve on the school board. Yet, at the time of the lawsuit, white students made up less than 30 percent of the district while Black and Hispanic students made up nearly…
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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It is one of Poland's largest anti-drug operations in recent years.
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