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NYT Headline and lede read: Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.

Ya think, NYT?

I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc… My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it recur at some point. For me it was sooner tha…

An important read about current cancer research, government funding, and one person’s journey through her cancer dx—by the brilliant Cathy Gellis

Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure? A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

“I am an originalist, and if the original meaning of the Constitution compelled this outcome, I would … agree that the Supreme Court should respect it until the Constitution is amended…  But both the text and the history of Article II are far more equivocal than the … Court has been suggesting. “

7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Christopher Columbus President Trump has vowed to bring Columbus Day ‘back from the ashes.’ But here are some shocking things you may not know about the much-celebrated historical figure behind it.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
Or you can celebrate CC, a known genocidal rapist, as our (liable for sexual assault and suspected of child rape himself) President encourages.

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

Excellent piece on why the compact is one of the stupidest “policies” by an administration full of stupid ideas.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

There was one I learned of in a posh liberal suburb of Seattle and it existed for awhile —maybe 1-2 years—before some engaged parents learned about it and were able to get it closed. They literally had to go through the building taking down hateful but encoded white supremacy posters. I

CNN's Van Jones Apologizes for 'Dead Gaza Baby' Rant CNN's Van Jones apologized for comments he made on Bill Maher's show Friday night which drew intense backlash from critics.

DESPICABLE: Van Jones Apologizes for Turning ‘Dead Gaza Baby’ Into a Punchline on Bill Maher’s Show. Actually Van did worse than "joke." He peddled the Netanayhu LIE that the images of dead Palestinian children were just part of disinfo campaign by Qatar. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

Wow. Blows my mind that I have been using this incorrectly my whole life. (The same was true when I learned what nauseous actually means but in that case I keep using the “wrong” term and chalking it up to modern usage). Thanks for the enlightenment!

Thanks! I’m not sure I know the difference between those two but I trust you are right; I will look it up and see if I can correct the original alt.

Headline of newspaper underneath photo of Trump at podium. Text says “Trump ‘Determined’ the US is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told”

Never thought I’d find myself nostalgic for the days of secret “Torture Memos” being used to justify war in pitching Congress. (Back when Congress had to agree.)

Also how many phone numbers does Al Franken have??
I’ve hit STOP and “reported junk” at least twice on that guy, but dems gotta dem I guess.

Seriously though, what’s the conversion rate on these out of the blue texts asking for money for people in random districts around the country??

Phones sold to Democrats need to come with a STOP button.
(Or …Dems could stop spamming us with urgent texts 8-10x a day from all over the country, also an option)

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

“It’s yet another way this regime practices eugenics. By refusing disabled people the accommodations they need, they’re targeting them for elimination.

People die in ICE custody every year, but we often don’t hear about them. Their stories go untold, their pleas unheard and the eugenics unopposed”

This Law School Is Offering Guaranteed Scholarships To All Incoming Students Thanks To New Student Loan Caps - Above the Law Which law school will be the next to hand out guaranteed scholarships like this?

Proud that Santa Clara Law has stepped up to help law students afford legal education as federal loan amounts undergo major changes next year.

Constitution Day event

For Constitution Day, Santa Clara Law had a great discussion about the "Rule of Law"

Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

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Disappointing. Do better, Perkins.

No.

SCOTUS time. :::drink:::
Good luck to us & democracy.
We’re gonna need it.

If/when there is another election, we'll see how this is applied to Democrats.

But, of course, this is dripping with hypocrisy from Republicans...as EVERYTHING with them always is.

#SupremeCourt

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Bye

Again, depending on what fan works you’re talking about, you’re just plain wrong. Anybody who knows me will attest I rarely say things like that. But you don’t know what you’re talking about. Not going to engage further with you. This is labor for me, and uninformed flame-throwing for you.

You can start by reading the text of 17 USC 107. Then look for summaries of the case law on line, from, say Campbell v Acuff Rose, Kelly v Arriba soft through Authors Guild v Google and even (recent) Warhol. Then spend some time online reading. Come back and engage when you’re done.

No thanks. It’s my job to teach (c) law. If you were my student, I’d be happy to teach it to you. Or if you were not simply trolling for a fight, to point you to resources to educate yourself rather than polemicizing. We don’t know yet what courts will do. But the problem isn’t as you describe it.

What’s your evidence that fanworks wouldn’t meet the threshold? Even your categorization betrays your misunderstanding. Some fan works might. Others might one. That’s how fair use goes! Case by case, unless within a defined category with repeat factual patterns.

Wow. There are too many mistaken understandings here to try to rebut or correct them all. Ordinarily I don’t go after people online to school them on copyright law (which is easy to get wrong). But you came for someone who knows the law and you don’t.

These are not the criteria used to determine what transformative means. You are using a lay person’s (or perhaps an artist’s) definition of transformative, not a lawyer’s. Or, if you’re a lawyer, you need to read or reread the relevant cases. This is not what transformative (necessarily) mean(s).