The Presentation of Video Evidence in Court Can Hold Sway in Cases Like the Beating Death of Tyre Nichols
Video is tricky, even when the user isn’t trying to spin its audience.
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CalPERS’ Refusal to Put Clearly Insolvent Long-Term Care Insurance Plan in Bankruptcy Increases Harm to Policyholders and Makes Board and Responsible Executives Liable
CalPERS continues to behave badly.
Read more...ChatGPT Is a Data Privacy Nightmare. If You’ve Ever Posted Online, You Ought To Be Concerned
More reasons to regard ChatGPT as CheatGPT.
Read more...Meatpacking. Healthcare. Housing Rentals. Industries Across the Board Using Tech to Fix Wages and Prices
DOJ says it’s going to crack down as lawsuits pile up against real estate Goliaths and US officially becomes a “rent-burdened nation.”
Read more...How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike
A suit by Glacier Northwest, seeking to recover costs it incurred during a strike, is now before the Supreme Court.
Read more...California’s Plan to Disappear the Homeless
CARE courts to force treatment on those deemed mentally ill and could result in state conservatorship.
Read more...Abortion Debate Ramps Up in States as Congress Deadlocks
States across the country are either moving to protect abortion rights or further restrict them.
Read more...SBF’s Substack Shows He Will Always Be in Our Face
Sadly, even prison is not likely to rid us of this turbulent financier, SBF.
Read more...Chasing Big European Corporate Miscreants Through New York Courts: An Update Via a Barclays Filing
A filing against Barclays presents quite the rap sheet, and also illustrates why it takes legal bloodymindeness to take on these miscreants.
Read more...How Wall Street Takeover of Rental Market Is Fueling the Homelessness Crisis
New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Is Baack! The Latest Filing, re the Calcaterra Report Coverup
For those who like legal jousting and elegant drafting, the Kentucky Retirement Systems battle is back, now focused on Regina Calcaterra.
Read more...‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources
Law professor Mary Wood breaks describes how the public trust can protect rights to clean air, water, and land.
Read more...An Entire Decade of Benefits Denial for Vets After Camp Lejune Toxic Chemical Exposure?
A recently-passed law is designed to help servicemembers who suffered toxic chemical exposure at Camp Lejune finally get compensation.
Read more...FTX’s Collapse Mirrors an Infamous 18th Century British Financial Scandal
Perilous little is novel in finance, particularly scams like FTX.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: Rosneft Refinery in Schwedt as a Microcosm of Europe’s Sanctions-Induced Energy Mess
A Rosneft refinery in Germany illustrates how difficult it is to get back to anything resembling status quo ante under sanctions.
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