Via Kris Kasianovitz, Government Information Librarian for International, State and Local Documents, Head, Social Sciences Resource Group, Green Library, 123E, Stanford, CA 94305 – “For those who work with State and Local government information (legal, regulatory, legislative, executive, etc. – that’s most of us, yea?) – you might want to tune in to this webcast or if… Continue Reading
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson broadly rejects absolutist claims of executive power
Washington Post: “In her ruling that Don McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of Washington goes to great lengths to illustrate how far out on a constitutional limb President Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr have crawled with their absolutist claims of executive power. Jackson invokes “Animal Farm”… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues November 15, 2019
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues November 15, 2019 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
Trump ‘Absolutely Immune’ From NY Tax Subpoena, Justices Told
Law360 – “President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to find that he has “absolute immunity” from criminal investigations while president and to block the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena of tax and financial records from his accounting firm. The Second Circuit found President Donald Trump’s presidential immunity from state criminal process doesn’t extend… Continue Reading
Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
EFF – Government Must Have Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband Before Searching People’s Electronic Devices at the U.S. Border – “In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry… Continue Reading
Competition Law
Comparative Competition Law (CCL) Project (Anu Bradford (Columbia University Law School), Adam Chilton (University of Chicago Law School)) via Lyonette Louis-Jacques – “[T]here is scant empirical evidence on what leads to the adoption of competition laws and what effects these laws have on market outcomes. Our research seeks to provide a new empirical foundation for… Continue Reading
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Examining Her Path to the High Court Bench and its Intersection with the ACLU
Brinkley, Jennifer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Examining Her Path to the High Court Bench and its Intersection with the ACLU (June 1, 2018). Lincoln Memorial University law Review, Vol. 6, Spring 2019, Issue 1. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3463979 “This paper examines Justice Ginsburg’s history, her impassioned activism on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, her… Continue Reading
Divided by Design Findings from the American South
“Incubated at Emerson Collective and led by former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, E Pluribus Unum is an initiative created to fulfill America’s promise of justice and opportunity for all by breaking down the barriers that divide us by race and class….What We’ve Learned – we’ve coded every word of what we’ve heard to help… Continue Reading
Crushing Immigration Judge Caseloads and Lengthening Hearing Wait Times
“The current policies of the Trump Administration have been unsuccessful in stemming the rise in the Immigration Court’s backlog. Overcrowded dockets create lengthening wait times for hearings. At some locations, immigrants with pending cases now wait on average 1,450 days or more – over four years! – before their hearing is scheduled. Despite promises to… Continue Reading
$35B class action case against Facebook on use of facial recognition data
Courthouse News Service: “Rejecting arguments that Facebook users suffered no “concrete harm” by having their facial data mapped and stored, the Ninth Circuit advanced a $35 billion class action against the social media giant Thursday. Facebook sought to swat down the lawsuit last year after U.S. District Judge James Donato ordered it to alert users… Continue Reading
Artificial Intelligence, Legal Change, and Separation of Powers
Michaels, Andrew C., Artificial Intelligence, Legal Change, and Separation of Powers (September 24, 2019). 88 University of Cincinnati Law Review _ (2020, Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3459069 “A number of prominent contemporary legal scholars have recently argued in favor of replacing human legal decision-making with Artificial Intelligence, assuming that AI technology improves to a level… Continue Reading
‘Ignorance is not an excuse’: California draft rules on data privacy released
San Francisco Chronicle: “California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a series of draft regulations Thursday aimed at getting businesses to comply with the state’s landmark data privacy law, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, signed into law in June 2018, businesses must disclose to consumers the various kinds of… Continue Reading
