New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing “addictive feeds” to children under 18 without parental consent. Tech Crunch has more, including where the bill goes next and how “addictive feed” is being defined. https://flip.it/8cubJE #Tech#Technology#SocialMedia#Law#Politics#NewYork
#RussVought has helped craft proposals for Trump to deploy the #military to quash #CivilUnrest, seize more #control over the #DOJ & assert the power to withhold congressional appropriations —& that’s just on Trump’s 1st day…
Since #Trump left office, Vought has led the Center for Renewing America, part of a network of #conservative advocacy groups staffed by fmr & potentially future Trump admin ofcls.
"Now, we have to debate about my right to say what I want to say instead of debating about what I actually said"
Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah discussing the controversy surrounding his article titled 'Toward the Nakba as a Legal Concept.'
With its high production values, conversational style, and a storyline unfolding in real time across episodes, 2014’s "Serial" fueled a new wave of interest in true crime and transformed podcasting. The show also helped free Baltimore high school student, Adnan Syed, convicted of murdering his teenage ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Vox tells us more, including how "Serial" changed the way we think about the criminal justice system. https://flip.it/c3CEC6 #Culture#TV#Law#Serial
A case brought by the DOJ was just denied a jury trial because Google cut a check for $2 million dollars.
Business practices that likely impacted business and consumers to the tune of billions in potential damages, a company that generates $60 Billion in revenue on search and ads every fiscal quarter, a judge looked at the DOJ brief and said:
Court decision o' the day, allowing a false-advertising class action to proceed against Cold Stone Creamery because its pistachio ice cream contains no pistachio. The decision is full of bad puns and song lyrics about ice cream including Weird Al's "I Love Rocky Road".
Hey #law and #legal adjacent folks on general interest instances, should the mood strike you esq.social is over here whenever you want to check us out.
On Thurs, #Arizona state Sen #JakeHoffman (R) also pleaded not guilty. Later in the day, Hoffman & another co-defendant, state Sen #AnthonyKern (R), were in the crowd when #Trump made his first appearance in the battleground state since his #criminal#conviction in #NewYork. To cheers, the fmr president called his NY #criminal trial “rigged” & said that “there was no crime.”
“When you bribed Robert #Menendez, did you do that alone or w/other people?” a prosecutor asked Uribe.
“With other people,” he responded, & then named Wael Hana, an Egyptian American businessman who founded a NJ halal meat co that prosecutors say was used to funnel #bribes to the senator & his wife.
Menendez & his wife are charged w/conspiring to accept cash, gold bullion & other bribes for Menendez to direct aid to #Egypt & to meddle in #criminal cases in NJ. One of those cases involved Uribe