pcaharrier

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Supreme Court of Virginia reverses convictions for purchasing lion cubs [pdf](vacourts.gov)
2 points by pcaharrier 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pcaharrier 7mo ago
The ruling is strictly limited to whether a private citizen can sue the federal government for money damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). It does not legalize the intentional withholding, theft, or destruction of mail, all of w
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No First Amendment Right to Force Government to Provide Live Feed of Macaques(reason.com)
2 points by pcaharrier 7mo ago|1 comments
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by pcaharrier 7mo ago
I actually think the law isn't terrible (at least not as far as state stalking laws go), but the argument that his lawyer (or the petitioner himself; it's not clear whether he was represented) strikes me as a little odd. The stalk
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by pcaharrier 7mo ago
"a crank who got a new neighbours who live differently than he does, and he doesn’t like it." Many such cases, if my previous work experience in the criminal justice system is any indication.
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by pcaharrier 7mo ago
Yes, even where there is no physical trespass, there very well may be other torts or crimes. Obviously, if you set fire to your neighbor's house, you can't get out of an arson charge by arguing that you "only" did it wi
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by pcaharrier 7mo ago
Bottom line: light can be a common law nuisance, but it doesn't (without more) constitute stalking.
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Does Light Consist of "Object[S]"?(reason.com)
3 points by pcaharrier 7mo ago|9 comments
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Ct. of App. of Tenn. rules Nashville shooter docs must be open for inspection(courtlistener.com)
2 points by pcaharrier 7mo ago|0 comments
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by pcaharrier 7mo ago
Yes, but only if the judge who gets the case believes in silly things like "Federal Rules of Evidence."
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
The website itself is here and I find it fascinating to put the translations side-by-side: https://www.iliadtranslations.com/
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GitHub project that compares translations of Homer's Iliad(github.com)
2 points by pcaharrier 8mo ago|1 comments
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
And even then . . . https://ij.org/if-you-break-it-you-buy-it-unless-youre-the-p...
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
As long as there's probable cause for some crime, the subjective motivations of the officer are almost never going to enter the legal analysis. Whren v. United States[1] was a case about a pretextual traffic stop, but the core reason
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
Let's call it "extremely difficult" - https://ij.org/if-you-break-it-you-buy-it-unless-youre-the-p...
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
>So in this case the government is raiding the home of someone who did not commit any crime, in the hopes of getting at people who might have. I looked at a lot of search warrant affidavits in a previous job and there's really nothi
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
I think this (from near the end) is also noteworthy (based on the two quotes from the late Justice Scalia at the beginning of the article): >Still another point illustrated by Justice Scalia’s reactions is the ubiquity of cultural cognit
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by pcaharrier 8mo ago
Questions, yes, but specifically questions about the facts in the video (not merely "what should happen to the protesters or police?"). "As one would expect, these differences in case-disposition judgments are mirrored in the
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"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)(stanfordlawreview.org)
74 points by pcaharrier 8mo ago|69 comments
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Why Deepfake Technology Forces Courts to Rethink the Reliability of Evidence(technologylaw.ai)
1 points by pcaharrier 8mo ago|0 comments
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
I don’t think Butterick is claiming SaaS doesn’t exist. He’s setting boundary cases for an economic argument about distributed software. SaaS isn’t an endpoint in that model; it sits in the middle, alongside subscriptions and licenses, wher
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
Provocative title notwithstanding, it seems like the author's core argument is correct: "to the extent that it doesn’t influence economic choices, piracy does not exist."
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Does Software Piracy Exist?(matthewbutterick.com)
8 points by pcaharrier 9mo ago|4 comments
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
"it's why books like Mein Kampf or Lolita don't also show up on these lists despite being very intentionally kept off the shelves by librarians." It seems like they would count those books as being banned if they had a
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
Just about, indeed! "Nonprofit hires woman, but she quits after a few days, asks for pay for that time; they refuse, and things get worse from there. But! They don’t turn off her email access to a board member’s email. She and a friend
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
Yes, Congress writes the laws, and the executive executes them. That’s certainly true in the general case. But when we talk about independent agencies like the FCC, the relevant question isn’t just the functional division of labor, but rath
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
Well, yes, the office of president was created to be weak relative to the British monarchy. But the substance of executive power (i.e., what actions are authorized) isn't really the issue, but rather whether anyone other than the presi
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by pcaharrier 9mo ago
Article 2, Section 1 says: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." Compare with Article 1, Section 1: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the U
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What the [UK] Property (Digital Assets etc.) Act 2025 Means for Cryptoassets(technologylaw.ai)
2 points by pcaharrier 9mo ago|0 comments
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The Risk of Being Kidnapped by a Stranger?(letgrow.org)
1 points by pcaharrier 9mo ago|0 comments

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