Federal appeals court strikes down law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms after the Supreme Court cleared the way last year for courts to reexamine the nation’s gun laws under a new legal standard
Republicans across the nation started clapping and shouting in praise until someone screamed, "WAIT! Isn't that one of #HunterBiden's charges that our judge wouldn't let him plead to & wanted stiffer penalties for?" #USPol#SCOTUS#COURTS#Law#Drugs
A lawfirm with a track record of pushing the Supreme Court towards more and more extreme positions under the guise of protecting religious liberty is bringing a suit in MA on behalf of a Catholic couple who weren't licensed as foster parents because they stated they would not affirm an LGBTQ youth.
IAS, IPS and IFoS: Is India stifling criticism by retired bureaucrats?
The Indian government has brought in new rules that allow it to cancel pensions of retired bureaucrats who have served as high-ranking officers in some of the most coveted government jobs.
The #warrant, obtained in Jan, adds a new dimension to the scope of the federal inquiry into #Jan6, 2021.
The court papers, which emerged from an appeal by Twitter challenging the judge’s decision to issue the warrant, did not reveal what prosecutors were looking for….
But the papers indicate that #prosecutors got permission from the #judge not to tell #Trump for months that they had obtained the warrant…. The prosecutors feared that if Trump learned about the warrant, it “would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation” by giving him “an opportunity to #DestroyEvidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates,” the papers said.
#Twitter’s initial resistance to #complying w/the warrant resulted in a federal# judge holding the company in #contempt & levying a $350,000 #fine (#Musk)
A federal #court of #appeals upheld that #fine last month in a sealed opinion. On Wed, the court unsealed a redacted version of that #opinion, revealing details of the secret battle for the first time.
“Although #Twitter ultimately complied w/the #warrant, the company did not fully produce the requested information until 3 days after a #court-ordered deadline,” acc/to the 34-p opinion by a 3-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. “The district court thus held Twitter in contempt & imposed a $350,000 sanction for its delay.”
#Trump used the account actively in the run-up to the #Jan6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, promoting false claims of election #fraud, calling his supporters to Washington to “stop the steal” & mounting #attacks on his rivals. Obtaining data from #Twitter might have revealed patterns about Trump’s use of the account, whether others had access to it & whether there were any draft statements that were unsent.
“Based on ex parte #affidavits, the district #court found #ProbableCause to search the #Twitter account for #evidence of #criminal offenses. Moreover, the district court found that there were ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that disclosing the warrant to… #Trump ‘would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation’ by giving him ‘an opportunity to #DestroyEvidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates,’” the #AppealsCourt noted.
“[T]he whole point of the nondisclosure order was to avoid tipping off… (Trump) about the #warrant’s existence,” the panel ruled….
The judges emphasized that the #nondisclosure order was temporary and reasonably tailored to protect the significant probe. The company, they noted “remained free to raise general concerns about warrants or nondisclosure orders, & to speak publicly about the #Jan6 investigation.”
Finally, on Feb 1, 4 days after the production deadline, #Twitter raised a #legal objection to the #nondisclosure order.
“Although the company did not question the validity of the #SearchWarrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,“ Pan noted. “Twitter informed the govt that it would not #comply w/the #warrant until the district #court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”
I’m looking for #law#lawprof#lawadjacent folks to follow on here. Particular interests include trusts & estates, civ pro, family law, and online teaching. But general #law content welcome!
If that’s you or someone you follow, please let me know & I’ll follow! TY.
Imprisoning A Child is A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of The Law, Yet Police Freely Violate The Law, 77% Of Detentions In UP
Despite the Supreme Court calling the detention of children ‘a flagrant violation of the law’, right-to-information data reveals at least 79 such detentions, 61 from Uttar Pradesh alone over five years. Juvenile justice law clearly says that no child in conflict with the law can be placed in a police lock-up or jail.
The legal claims allege the #water companies have breached competition #law by failing to report discharges which would have affected the price they can charge to customers."
'I am positive they were the reason we didn't leave on time!': Passengers say Frontier thought they were the actual pilots after they put on pilot hats
A #lawyer allied w/Trump first laid out a plot to use #FakeElectors to subvert the #2020election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a #criminal#conspiracy.
The #WisconsinSupremeCourt ordered the reappointment of #attorney James R. Troupis to the #JudicialConduct Advisory Committee for a term that runs until March 7, 2026. The court's 4 #conservative justices supported his reappointment while 3 liberal justices dissented.
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