Vox’s article gets this right: the 5th circuit is UTTERLY wrong to say that the organizer of a protest is liable for anything that happens near the protest. Anything else eliminates freedom of association.

An analysis of how building codes affect the housing crisis.

Governor Ron DeSantis removed a prosecutor from office because he was a liberal; much, much later a federal appeals court rules that wasn’t an acceptable reason.

The (US) legal system uses MD5 hashes to detect unique documents. It’s been broken since 2008. Apparently hardly anyone in law or legal technology knows this.

The Speak Out Act (S.4524) is an Act of Congress which prevents the enforcement of non-disclosure agreements in instances of sexual assault and harassment.

This federal law has been in place for a li’l over a year. Good to know about, for those who are under NDAs. I hadn’t heard of it until today.

President Biden taking steps to protect those convicted of marijuana possession.

SCOTUS doesn’t actually accept full cases (most of the time), instead they accept a single question about a case (and you’re not allowed to argue other issues). This, according to the article, helps them to behave more like a super-legislature than a court.

A 10-yr-old arrested and thrown in jail, now pleads guilty because he was threatened with even more serious charges and is sentenced to months of probation, solely for peeing in a parking lot.

A glass blower started making glass-in-glass jellyfish. Another glass blower imitated it. They were sued for copyright violation; on appeal it was decided “ jellyfish in glass” was too broad to be copyrighted.

Cory Doctorow: I’ve been saying for decades – if it’s possible for sellers to degrade your product long after you bought it then eventually they will. And it keeps happening.

Someone invented a mouth bacterium that doesn’t produce lactic acid and outcompetes those that do. The FDA required a test that was impossible to perform. Now a startup will sell it as a probiotic.

I had no idea you could bury secret metadata in the PDF you filed with the court in order to control which judge you get. That’s corrupt.

Did we really need another warning of the dire consequences of climate change in this country? The answer, legally, was yes

Does the Empire has the right to self-defense against Alderaan?

Judge rules Saskatchewan farmer’s use of thumbs-up emoji was contractual agreement