Paul Alan Levy

Ballade on the composer-pianist

My friends' birthdays are worth noting for their own sake, not least because it gives me an excuse to point them to this cool rendition of "Happy Birthday"
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ACLU commonly posts decision to itsown site instead of givingcourtlistener links

Outstanding legal job for the right person

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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

Lock him up!

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Gotta persuade Bsky to allow typo fixes!

Nice photos, Tom!

The Reporters Committee generally organizes amicus briefs rather than suing in its own name.

Nice to see former RCFP director Katie Townsend as second chair on this case, though

Techdirt is an outstanding source of news and analysis

The ACLU of DC has won a great preliminary injunction against warrantless arrests for civil immigration violations without probable cause and without determination of flight risk

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Love the fact that Bovino's public statements repeatedly show up as evidence, for example

Do you know any of the IP faculty at Fordham? Are they serious scholars? Are they aware of this issue?

Was it Murder?: A Law of War Primer On Friday, the Washington Post reported that after striking the first alleged drug boat in September, surveillance feed showed that there were two survivors of the attack.

Good explainer here from a former GC for each of the US Army and US Air Force (now at A & P)

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Opinion Filed – #81 in United States v. Julien Giraud, Jr. (3rd Cir., 25-2635) – CourtListener.com PRECEDENTIAL OPINION. Coram: RESTREPO, SMITH and FISHER, Circuit Judges. Total Pages: 32. Judge: FISHER Authoring. [25-2635, 25-2636] (CJG)

The Third Circuit is the first to weigh in on the lawfulness of second successive presidential appointments of acting United States Attorneys, rejecting the Trump Admin's appointment of Alice Habba

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including "and" and "the"....

About the Public Citizen Texas Office - Public Citizen About the Texas State Office

Public Citizen's Texas office frequently writes about this problem
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Actually, one major paper about which many BlueSky posters can never whine enoughhas experienced vast expansion of paid subscriptions. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Many BlueSky posters detest the mainstream media as much as Trump does. Go figure.

Well of course. DHS does not have the POWER to prosecute. So "persecute" is all they can do!

It’s a Racket! | Jed S. Rakoff Cryptocurrency has largely managed to remain free of government regulation, and as a result has often become a vehicle for fraud and criminality.

Judge Rakoff (SDNY) on crypto

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That's certainly how MY forebears got here

Protecting Anonymous Political Satire - CLP Blog Is this cartoon, posted to the satirical Facebook page Benito Beet Beat, a true threat that is outside the protection of the First Amendment? That is what the County of San Benito California contends....

Magistrate Judge Marchi protects satirists of the elected officials of a small California county from being identified pursuant to subpoena

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Eleventh Circuit upholds award of nearly $1 million in fees against Trump and Alina Habba as a sanction for frivolous litigation brought in bad faith. Court specifically upheld finding of a pattern of abusing the courts
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Should be cited in other Trump suits

Motions panels are set from month to month. There is always potential for good ones and bad ones.

Note that CJ Is Sri Srinivasan

Maybe Trump and his warrior clique don't understand that increased militarization is likely to foment violence, not deter it

Or maybe they hope for confrontations because it helps them politically, and really, they don't care about folks who live here being harmed

Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office

Autopen, anyone?

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION v. THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2:25-cv-06502 - CourtListener.com Docket for EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION v. THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2:25-cv-06502 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high qualit...

Penn refuses Trump Admin demand -- send us a list of your Jews

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Julie Murray | American Civil Liberties Union

FWIW my former Litigation Group colleague Julie Murray has been heading a group at the ACLU on that same theme
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You might find this shocking, but institutions with assets and with enemies who would love to sue them do this thing called a libel review

I gladly subscribe to the dead tree edition of NYT.

Despite all whining I see on certain BlueSky accounts, the NYT's subscription numbers keep growing. And that's PAID subscriptions. Thank goodness.

YouTube video by RastaChaka Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam

Mourning Jimmy Cliff -- my freshman college dormmate was from Jamaica so beginning in the fall 1968, I was immersed in reggae and ska
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Order on Motion to Dismiss – #140 in United States v. James (E.D. Va., 2:25-cr-00122) – CourtListener.com ORDER AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (2) All actions flowing from ...

/2/ Parallel ruling in favor of Letitia James

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