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Unlikely Careers for Lawyers

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JAG Lawyer A Judge Advocate General is a unique opportunity for those who want to defend their country in court. In the episode “ Going From Law School to the Air Force JAG Corps ,” Professor Tony Ghiotto discusses his transition from the battlefield to the classroom. and advising them to “take the bull by the horns.”

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Justia Legal Guides: Disability Law Center

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Federal laws and regulations provide specific protections to people with disabilities. The SSA provides three internal levels of appeals : a reconsideration, a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), and review by the SSA Appeals Council. Some claimants get denied initially but eventually succeed on appeal.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

If a contract does that, it should not be enforceable as a matter of federal law. Indeed, under the conflict preemption doctrine, state laws, including contracts, cannot undercut federal policy. First, he assessed the interests that the relevant state law, as applied to the case at hand, aims to promote.

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A Family’s Plea: Appellate Court Urged to Reexamine Lawsuit Alleging TikTok’s Role in Daughter’s Death

Trellis.Law Blog

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel in the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments regarding whether a lawsuit against social media company TitTok should be revived despite a federal law that generally shields internet platforms from liability… Continue reading → The post A Family’s Plea: Appellate Court Urged (..)

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Catching Up on the Heavyweight Scraping Battle Between X and Bright Data (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

If the judge thinks its reasonable, the judge can allow it. But here, the judge invited the parties to engage in extensive letter-briefing on the motion to amend the claims. The judge decided that this was an actionable deprivation of use of its servers, and allowed the TTC claims to proceed. Here, X Corp.

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Court orders Texas to remove anti-migrant Rio Grande barriers–The Hill

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BY RAFAEL BERNAL AND REBECCA BEITSCH “Governor [Greg] Abbott [R] announced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier,” District Judge David Alan Ezra wrote. Texas is ordered to remove the buoys by Sept.

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It Turns Out You Can’t “Sue the CDA”–Fyk v. US

Eric Goldman

The judge’s response might be characterized as: WTF = What The Fyk? That the CDA is a federal law does not mean Mr. Fyk can bring a claim against the United States government; preventing such a flood of lawsuits is at the core of standing doctrine. He sued the government to declare Section 230 unconstitutional.

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