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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

'Behind Bars': Petroff article explains how secrecy shields private prison labor from public scrutiny

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Alyssa Petroff , a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, has published Behind Bars: Secrecy in Arizona’s Private Prison...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Reversal in eldercare case highlights limits of qualified immunity, low injury threshold of intentional torts

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Boston police officer assists an elderly pedestrian in 2014. (Alex Klavens CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) A dispute over elder care occasioned trea...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Upcoming NFOIC Summit features access all-stars

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Access-to-information (ATI, RTK, FOI) enthusiasts are invited and encouraged to attend the online 2022 summit of the National Freedom of Inf...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Proposed Biden rule would try again to compel airline pricing transparency; it worked out so well last time

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President Biden has his own plane. (U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) The U.S. Department of Transportation (DO...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Governor's proposed pay hikes evince typical bureaucratic ignorance of how working people earn

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Governor Dan McKee (Kenneth C. Zirkel CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia ) Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee's proposal for huge increases to sta...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...
Monday, September 19, 2022

In 'Operation L,' Polish Special Forces rescued women judges, lawyers from Afghanistan amid chaotic U.S. exit

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In an operation little known until recently, Polish Special Forces evacuated female judges and lawyers from Afghanistan in the wake of the c...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Land dispute implicates 'second element of second path of second stage' of anti-SLAPP analysis, and we're all supposed to pretend the world's better for it

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The Supreme Judicial Court studies its anti-SLAPP framework. Argonne National Laboratory CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr Anti-SLAPP analysis in ...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

FTC finally notices abuse of customers, shady business practices by car rental industry

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In an omnibus resolution late last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) green-lighted investigation of the car rental industry. Earlie...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Motel not liable for guest's suicide, court rules, despite family warning of risk, asking for room number

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CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday rejected Motel 6 liability for the suicide of a guest. The Septembe...