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[Link] Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Groping TV Judge at Conference
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
A sheriff in Georgia pleaded guilty on Monday to groping a TV judge at a hotel bar last year while attending a law enforcement conference in the state.
[Link] San Francisco Just Decriminalized Shrooms
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
San Francisco has become the latest U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelics like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca.
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[Link] Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
Read: 5/8/2022 www.theguardian.com
The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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[Link] Trump Tried to Call a Jan. 6 Committee Witness and DOJ Has Been Notified
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Former President Donald Trump called a witness to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, the committee’s top Republican said Tuesday—a potentially illegal act that the committee has shared with the Justice Department. Wyoming Rep.
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[Link] New lawsuit calls Kotick’s handling of Activision-Microsoft merger “inexcusable”
Read: 6/5/2022 arstechnica.com
The Activision-Blizzard shareholders' response to a whirlwind of news over the past year—which include disturbing, company-wide allegations of sexual harassment and pay disparity, followed by a $68.
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[Link] Far-right InfoWars website files for bankruptcy protection
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facing multiple defamation lawsuits, the far-right website InfoWars on Sunday voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Texas.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. Watch Tower: So What?
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
In 2018, Watch Tower filed for a DMCA subpoena that would've required YouTube to hand over the identity of an animator who parodied the religious group in his videos. When that stalled, Watch Tower filed a copyright lawsuit.
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[Link] Proud Boys leader arrested on US Capitol attack conspiracy charge
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy over the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
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[Link] US lawmakers seek criminal probe of Amazon for lying about use of seller data
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
Amazon lied to Congress about its use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee said today. In a letter to the Department of Justice, the committee chairs asked prosecutors to investigate the company for criminal obstruction of Congress.
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[Link] Report: SEC investigating Activision Blizzard investors for insider trading
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating three investors for alleged massive insider trading just ahead of Microsoft's January announcement of merger plans with Activision Blizzard, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.
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[Link] Donald Trump criminal probe in question after prosecutors suddenly resign
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
The criminal case is related to but separate from a parallel civil case being run by New York's Attorney-General. Both started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr and were asked to stay when Mr Bragg took office in January.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial adjourned after attorney becomes ill
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s New York sex-trafficking trial was unexpectedly adjourned early Thursday because an “ill” attorney needed medical care.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell warned Epstein’s house manager not to ‘look at his eyes’, court hears
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home said Thursday that Ghislaine Maxwell warned that he should “never look” his boss in the eyes.
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[Link] Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yesterday, the prosecution attempted to pick apart that defense.
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[Link] Ex-defense secretary sues over withheld material from Trump era memoir
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former US defense secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the defense department that material is being improperly withheld from him as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes throws scientists under the bus
Read: 24/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Elizabeth Holmes would like the jury to know that scientists, at Theranos and at other companies, led her astray. One of those scientists was Ian Gibbons, who led Theranos’ scientific research efforts.
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[Link] The Brutal Racism of the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Whether the defense likes it or not, the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is all about race.
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[Link] Gopuff Delivery Workers Plan National Strike Ahead of Thanksgiving
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Some participating workers plan to not work their scheduled shifts as part of the strike, and others will refuse to fill in for them, organizers say. They hope this will have a “significant impact” on a company that promises delivery of food and goods in just half an hour.
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[Link] World’s Worst People Keep Assaulting and Harassing Flight Attendants
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The passenger started drinking their own alcohol, which is against federal law, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. When a flight attendant told the passenger to stop, that passenger sexually assaulted the attendant.
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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Were Justified Because Break-Ins ‘Scared’ Them, Defense Says
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael had every reason to fear a 25-year-old Black man running through his neighborhood and was justified in attempting to make a “citizen’s arrest” that led to the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an attorney for the defense said in one final appeal to jurors.
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[Link] A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic. The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.
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[Link] Biden Administration Intervenes In Donald Trump's Silly Lawsuit Against Twitter To Defend Section 230
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
As you'll recall, a few months ago, former President Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube claiming that his own government violated the 1st Amendment... because those three private companies kicked him off their services for violating their policies.
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[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] Jury Correctly Recognizes That Print-On-Demand Website Isn't A 'Counterfeiting' Business Engaged In Infringement
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Phew.
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[Link] Travis McMichael Admits Ahmaud Arbery Never Threatened Him Before Shooting
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ahmaud Arbery did not threaten Travis McMichael or signal that he was armed in the moments before he was killed, but McMichael shot him dead during their struggle anyway, the Glynn County courthouse in Georgia heard Thursday.
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[Link] ‘He Had My Gun’: Ahmaud Arbery's Killer Claims It Was Self-Defense
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael, one of three men who chased Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in a truck with a confederate flag vanity plate, testified Wednesday that he shot Arbery during the confrontation because he believed Arbery was trying to take his gun.
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[Link] Miramax Is Suing Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Quentin Tarantino’s plans to sell a collection of Pulp Fiction NFTs may be thwarted by a lawsuit from the film’s studio Miramax.
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[Link] ‘QAnon Shaman’ Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Prison for Capitol Riot
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Jacob Chansley “made himself the very image of the riot,” the judge who sentenced him said. Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” also known as Jake Angeli, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison today.
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[Link] Father of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killer: ‘I Would Have Shot Him Myself’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Had Travis McMichael not shot Ahmaud Arbery in the chest twice with his shotgun and killed the 25-year-old Black man, Travis’ dad Gregory McMichael said he would have done it instead.
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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense
Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com
As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.
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[Link] After Being Sued By ACE, Nitro IPTV Now Faces a New DISH Network Lawsuit
Read: 7/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In 2020, pirate IPTV service Nitro TV was sued by members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment for millions in copyright infringement damages.
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[Link] The iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
A tweak to the iPhone’s repairability that has been long prophesied and feared has finally come to pass, giving staggering new urgency for legislation that makes repair more accessible: The iPhone 13’s screen cannot be replaced without special software controlled by Apple.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] Department of Commerce Says We Need Fewer Repair Restrictions
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a federal agency that advises the president on telecom issues, has sent a letter to the Copyright office detailing a list of exemptions it believes should be made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
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[Link] ‘Unite the Right’ Organizers Are Facing a Court Case That Could Bankrupt Them
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - Yellow U.S. Marshall tape cordoned off the walkways into the federal courthouse in downtown Charlottesville on Monday morning, which, for the next month will be the focal point of a civil case that could bankrupt a white supremacist movement.
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[Link] Miya Marcano’s Family Just Sued Her Apartment Complex for Wrongful Death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Last month, Armando Caballero, a maintenance man for Arden Villas, allegedly killed Marcano, a college student who was a tenant and employee at the apartment complex in Orlando, Florida.
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[Link] Google countersues Epic Games for lost Play Store money
Read: 17/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases.
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[Link] 'Girls Do Porn' Victims Reach Settlement with Pornhub
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
Fifty victims who were coerced into having sex on camera by Girls Do Porn have reached a settlement with Mindgeek, Pornhub's parent company, according to a court document filed Friday. Terms of the settlement between the women and Pornhub were not disclosed.
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[Link] Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentences May Finally Stop Being Racist
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. But on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives moved to turn that around by passing a bill to end the sentencing disparity once and for all at the federal level.
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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.
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[Link] A Cop Killed Another Cop. A Woman Was Charged Instead.
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jenna Holm, who’s now 35, was holding the tip of a machete under her chin and walking down a Bonneville County street when two sheriff deputies confronted her in May 2020.
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[Link] Oath Keeper Snitched on Himself to FBI Agent During Tattoo Session, Docs Say
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Roberto Minuta, who’s facing serious conspiracy charges for his alleged role on Jan.
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[Link] DoJ vows to protect women seeking abortions in Texas after radical state ban
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
US attorney general Merrick Garland announced on Monday that the federal government will take action to protect those in Texas trying to obtain an abortion in the wake of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US taking effect last week.
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[Link] How Big Telecom Killed Rules That Would Have Prevented Hurricane Ida Outages
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
As Louisiana residents dig out from underneath the massive damage caused by Hurricane Ida, many are having to do so without essential communications options.
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[Link] ‘AntiVaxMomma’ Allegedly Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
Jasmine Clifford, the 31-year-old “AntivaxMomma,” allegedly sold about 250 forged COVID-19 vaccine cards on Instagram from May 2021 to July, according to the Manhattan DA. The scheme involved selling these cards over Instagram that falsely stated an individual had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.
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[Link] Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A coalition of Hollywood studios, with the addition of Amazon and Netflix, has obtained an injunction to restrain Jason Tusa, the alleged operator of Altered Carbon, Area 51, and several other pirate IPTV services.
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[Link] A New Service Promises to Make Getting a Divorce Cheap and NBD
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
That is, according to science, which says that 'tis the most popular season to consciously uncouple. Look, we’re not here to judge anyone getting divorced, especially since about half of American marriages end up that way, according to the World Population Review.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Jake Paul Fight Piracy: Judge Dismisses Triller’s Main Lawsuit, Others On The Brink
Read: 13/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A court in the United States has dismissed Triller's original lawsuit that targeted a site alleged to have pirated the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren fight. In another lawsuit, Triller failed to inform a court that an investigation was underway and faces a case dismissal.
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[Link] A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He’s Running for Sheriff.
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
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[Link] ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Seeks to Reduce 14-Year Prison Sentence Due to COVID Pandemic
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has asked the court for a reduction of his 14-year prison sentence. The disbarred lawyer says that he faced extraordinarily difficult living conditions in prison due to the COVID pandemic.
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[Link] Biden asks Congress to extend COVID-19 eviction ban set to expire this week
Read: 30/7/2021 www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday to extend a moratorium on evictions to protect millions of U.S. renters and their families that is set to expire this week amid a deadly rise in coronavirus infections, the White House said.
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[Link] Report: Judge Throws Out Antitrust Cases Brought Against Facebook
Read: 2/7/2021 uploadvr.com
The United States Federal Trade Commission has 30 days to refile its complaint against Facebook after a federal judge on Monday threw it out as well as another case brought by dozens of individual states. You can read through the opinions written by judge James E. Boasberg for the U.S.
[Link] Prosecutors investigating Trump tell witness to prepare for grand jury testimony
Read: 31/5/2021 www.cnn.com
Manhattan prosecutors pursuing a criminal case against former President Donald Trump, his company and its executives have told at least one witness to prepare for grand jury testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter -- a signal that the lengthy investigation is moving into an advance
[Link] Man who helped create bomb-making videos for Islamic State pleads guilty
Read: 15/5/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 31, of St. Augustine, Florida, and then Roanoke, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida said.
[Link] Suspect in Capitol riot who left a note for Nancy Pelosi says he called her the 'less offensive' 'biatch,' not 'b----' in new argument for bail
Read: 28/4/2021 www.businessinsider.com
An Arkansas man arrested and charged in connection to the Capitol insurrection is arguing slang semantics in a new request for bail.
[Link] Capitol Rioters Face the Consequences of Their Selfie Sabotage
Read: 9/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Joe Biggs and his fellow Proud Boys left an incriminating social media trail for federal investigators before and during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6. WASHINGTON — On Jan.
[Link] Supreme Court rules API copying is fair use
Read: 7/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The Supreme Court has sided with Google in its decade-long legal battle with Oracle over the copyright status of application programming interfaces. The ruling means that Google will not owe Oracle billions of dollars in damages.
[Link] The man who put his feet up on a desk in Pelosi’s office during the Capitol riot throws a tantrum in court.
Read: 4/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETMarch 4, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETRichard Barnett of Gravette, Ark., posed for photographs while sitting at a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the siege at the Capitol.Credit...
[Link] Biden plans to limit private prisons and transfer of military equipment to police
Read: 27/1/2021 www.reuters.com
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[Link] ‘Constitutionally Illiterate’ Tennessee Authorities Arrest Man For ‘Posting an Anti-Police Meme’ on Social Media
Read: 26/1/2021 lawandcrime.com
Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Dickson Police Department on Friday arrested a man accused of posting a fake photograph on social media depicting two men urinating on the grave of a police officer who was tragically killed on duty in 2018.