Only the well-to-do folks who never interacted with it before seem surprised at the injustices of the legal system. And those who choose to complain about how that system treats Donald Trump are choosing a rather odd place to begin complaining.

Georgia is upset that some citizens don’t agree with it so it is not just arresting them for protesting, it is ALSO preventing them from banding together to pay bail for each other.

Remember that case where the FBI just seized and kept the contents a bunch of safe deposit boxes? Years later, a court is finding that was not legal.

Here is some advice on what to do when you receive a cease and desist letter from a giant tech corporation.

He didn’t speak English (only Mayan). A police officer died of natural causes while arresting him and he is charged with murder. Also, the judge apparently says he cannot be prosecuted since he doesn’t speak the language (that’s weird).

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.