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Monday, October 26, 2020

Legal scholars overlook scholarship about state FOIA, but dedicated academics toil for state transparency

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Professor Robert Steinbuch and I aim to draw attention to the undersung work of state-law transparency  scholars through our recent publica...
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Sunday, October 25, 2020

'Right to repair' of Mass. Question 1 would close loophole, aid consumers; industry opposition misleads

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Teen mechanic in Philippines, 2014 (Rojessa Tiamson-Saceda, USAID, via Pixnio CC0 ) Massachusetts has a right-to-repair initiative ( Questi...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Shop Shatner and don't ask too many questions

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William Shatner, 2016 ( Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I'm a pretty big William Shatner fan.  James T. Kirk was my favorite TV captain...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Canadian privacy advocate deploys anti-SLAPP law in suit by electronic exam proctoring company

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John Oliver's Big Coal SLAPP nemesis, Bob Murray, retires Pixabay by Aksa2011 An IT specialist at a Canadian university is defending a...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Opioids, coronavirus add up to dangerous interaction

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pxfuel.com Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to criminal charges in the marketing of OxyContin, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced yeste...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Plaintiff verdict upheld for IIED, hostile environment upon shocking attorney maltreatment of employee

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld a verdict against a lawyer for shocking maltreatment of an employee. mohamed_hassan ( pixabay....
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Jarosiński to talk cloud law, from Europe to Zoom, in free transnational legal webinar series

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Jarosiński Wojciech Jarosiński , a friend and colleague, will speak in November on "The Cloud: A New Legal Frontier."  The talk i...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Court: Irish officials must justify non-disclosure under FOIA exemption for commercial information

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Ireland Supreme Court chamber ( Michael Foley CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) In two judgments in late September, the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled tha...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Grand jury secrecy is important, but not sacred

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pixy.org ( CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) [UPDATE: As I was writing this piece on Friday, the Kentucky court released audio of the grand jury proceeding...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Multi-ethnic kid crew fights bloodsucking gentrification

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Are you in need of a Stranger Things fix? Season 4 resumed filming a couple of weeks ago. In the meantime, Netflix's Vampires vs. the B...