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Explainer: Supreme Court to Hear Landmark Tennessee Gender-Affirming Care Case–thejurist.org

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Chloe Miracle-Rutledge | Georgetown University Law Center, U The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a landmark case involving a Tennessee law that prohibits gender-affirming healthcare for minors. United States v.

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Allegations of a Bribe-Driven Facebook-OnlyFans Conspiracy Unsurprisingly Fall Apart in Court–Dangaard v. Instagram

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After hearing this allegation at least twice, the Court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to go present proof of such a bribe and to specifically subpoena the banks that were allegedly involved in laundering the bribe. You can essentially hear Judge Alsup’s teeth gnashing in the opinion.

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Law schools ranked by employment | IRL office debate | A Declaration of Independence reading

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Listening, hearing then taking action. In the ABA Journal’s continuing series on the impact of Covid-19 on the legal profession, Asked & Answered host Stephanie Ward interviews law school dean Hari Osofsky about the shift to online learning and the future of legal education.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright. Here, the court took a slightly different approach to this problem compared to what I have seen in the past. Despite X Corp.’s

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NY cannabis officials admit it’s time to rework enforcement against illegal weed shops–Gothamist (WNYC)

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Kathy Hochul tweaked state law earlier this year to increase the potential fines for unlicensed cannabis sales and bolster enforcement against shops that flout the law. By Caroline Lewis Gov.

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TikTok ban goes to the court: 5 essential reads on the case and its consequences

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The court hearing is the latest development in a lengthy saga over the fate of an app that is widely popular, especially among young Americans, but that many politicians in Washington fear poses or is a security risk. During the appearance before a panel of judges at the U.S.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

That section states that rights under state laws that are “equivalent” to rights under copyright law are preempted. The case law in the Ninth Circuit — the other appellate circuit central to developing copyright law, especially regarding new technologies — seems to support the Seventh Circuit’s majority approach.

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