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Blake C. Stacey

Anyone here have experience filing an amicus brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court?
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In particular, I'd like to say something regarding SJC-13747 Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Meta Platforms, Inc. et al., to the effect of "I've been hating Facebook for much longer than you, but words have meaning and you can't just say that notification alerts are 'addictive'".

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Neil Brown

New blogpost: "The UK's proposed measures for court orders to suspend IP addresses and domain names"

Perhaps I’m being grumpy, or daft, but quite a lot of this doesn’t seem to make much sense to me, from a technical point of view.

Feedback welcome, especially if I'm being stupid.

decoded.legal/blog/2025/04/the

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decoded.legalThe UK's proposed measures for court orders to suspend IP addresses and domain names
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Kim Scheinberg

@ewen @SpaceLifeForm
No, the people I'm talking about are currently active on Bluesky. For whatever reason, they're happier there

Some names:
Erin Kissane
Rebecca Tushnet
Maria Bustillos
Leta McCollough Seletzky
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
Blake Reid

Erin and Rebecca were the people whose absence made me take notice, but these were all regular Mastodon users with lots of followers

I think a lot of #lawfedi left when law twitter migrated en masse to Bluesky a few months ago. Understandable, but 🙁

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Heidi Li Feldman

Roberts’ order granting the Trump executive an administrative stay of the lower court order to return Abrego Garcia seems to have crossed with Abrego Garcia’s brief opposing the executive’s substantive appeal. Here is the passage from A-G’s brief opposing an administrative stay. 1/ #LawFedi

Here, the path to minimize harm is to deny an administrative stay. Every moment Abrego Garcia remains in El Salvador constitutes "irreparable harm" to him. Add002; SA163-164. An administrative stay that prolongs his time in El Salvador will inflict, rather than minimize, harm. Detainees in CECOT face "the risk of torture, beatings, and even death," J.G.G., 2025 WL 890401, at *16, while being "denied communication with their relatives and lawyers," Add025. The Government identifies no countervailing harm sufficient to outweigh the grave and irreparable harm Abrego Garcia suffers daily.
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Heidi Li Feldman

With the Fourth Circuit today upholding Judge Paula Xinis's order that the Trump regime effectuate Kilmar Alexander Abrego Garcia's return by midnight tonight, we are on the brink of a clearcut showdown between the federal executive and judicial branches. We may well find out just where the Roberts Court stands on the survival of U.S. constitutional democracy. heidi-says.ghost.io/the-clash- #LawFedi

Heidi Says · The clash is nighIt can be hard to wrest one's attention from Trump's destruction of the world financial markets, but this morning the United State has moved one step closer to an absolute showdown between Trump's executive branch and the federal judiciary. The way it is shaping up also has the potential to
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beSpacific

#SCOTUS Roberts issues administrative stay temporarily pausing Maryland man's return to US after he was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison. #DOJ emergency appeal states US District Judge overstepped authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US. "The US govt has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in US off street, remove him from country wout due process. unconscionable.” And there you have it.. #Lawfedi #law #courts #immigration

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Yappari

A Playbook for Standing Up to Trump:

“The three law firms that have filed suits to block Mr. Trump’s executive orders — Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — provide a model. So far, they are winning in court. Importantly, they have won the backing of many conservatives. As our counterparts on The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote, Mr. Trump’s campaign against law firms “breaks a cornerstone principle of American justice.””

nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President TrumpBy The Editorial Board
#GiftArticle#GiftLink#law
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Seán Fobbe

🔔 UPDATE April 2025 🔔

6818 German federal laws and regulations now available #OpenAccess as a comprehensive corpus ⬇️

✅ 42 variables
✅ #OpenAccess
✅ #PublicDomain
✅ Regular snapshots of German federal law from May 2020
✅ Structural diagrams for all laws (dendrogram, sunburst, circlepack)
✅ Formats: XML, CSV, PDF, TXT, EPUB, GraphML

All downloads: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3832111

Documentation: zenodo.org/records/15149110/fi

#Law #DigitalHumanities #LawFedi #OpenData #OpenScience #OpenSource #RStats @histodons @rstats @politicalscience @law @sociology

The data pipeline used to create the C-DBR corpus visualized as a network diagram. Each target is labeled. High-res version available for download with the corpus.
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GuyC59

@heidilifeldman

In 1994, President Clinton signed legislation restoring the Social Security Administration as an independent agency. Reasons for the law included avoiding the types of executive interference that we are seeing today. To my understanding the law remains the governing authority.

I'm a history buff not a lawyer. Please excuse a naive question, but under what legal authority is #DOGE operating as they work to dismantle Social Security?

Maybe #LawFedi can help us understand what recourse might be available under 1994 statute to stop them.

I put together a short video with additional background info that may be found here:
linkedin.com/posts/guywclinch_

www.linkedin.com#socialsecurityat90 #strongertogether #wearenotgoingback #ssahistgwc… | Guy ClinchSocial Security History: Independence #SocialSecurityat90  #StrongerTogether #WeAreNotGoingBack "SSA: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE SSA began life as an independent agency in 1935, became a sub-cabinet agency in 1939, and returned full-circle to independent status in 1995. Throughout the years, arguments had been heard in the halls of Congress that SSA should be returned to independent agency status. This debate was given impetus in 1981 when the National Commission on Social Security recommended that SSA once again become an independent Social Security Board. The 1983 National Commission on Social Security Reform (aka, the Greenspan Commission) again raised this issue and recommended a special study be commissioned of the matter. This special study was completed in 1984 and it outlined several options for making SSA an independent agency. This led to numerous legislative proposals in the ensuing years and in 1994 the legislation passed both houses of Congress unanimously. President Clinton signed the bill on August 15, 1994 (59 years and one day after FDR signed the original Act at a ceremony at SSA Headquarters in Baltimore. Sources: Organizational History: https://lnkd.in/edu9Sha9 Social Security Administration Created as an Independent Agency: Public Law 103-296 https://lnkd.in/gj8tpEx8 Bill: https://lnkd.in/eexvddCS Prior to this on September 14, 1993, the Hon. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the, conducted a hearing on the proposal to establish the Social Security Administration (SSA) as an independent agency. The hearing included testimonies from various witnesses, including: - Lawrence H. Thompson, Acting Commissioner of the SSA at the time. - Elmer B. Staats, former Comptroller General of the United States. - Arthur S. Flemming, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. - Robert J. Myers, former Chief Actuary of the SSA. Witnesses argued that executive interference could compromise the agency's ability to administer Social Security benefits fairly and effectively. There were discussions about how executive control might lead to decisions driven by short-term political goals rather than the long-term stability of the program. The independence of the SSA was seen as a way to protect it from such influences and maintain public trust in its operations. Source: https://lnkd.in/eJQMr5H2 The hearing played a significant role in shaping the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994, which eventually made the SSA an independent agency. The law establishes a bi-partisan Social Security Advisory Board and says, “annual budget...submitted by the President to the Congress without revision...”   More Social Security history: https://lnkd.in/e7aYDjRe & #SSAHistGWC #SocialSecurity #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #healthcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration 
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Heidi Li Feldman

Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d #LawFedi

(Please do not @ me about it being on google. I am not the creator of the sheet.)

Google DocsLegal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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