Ryan Barack
@law4employees.bsky.social
Board Certified Labor and Employment Lawyer. Complex employment and civil rights litigation for humans. Tampa Bay based but always a Pittsburgh guy. www.employeerights.com
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When the rule of law is under attack, We Stand Up and Fight Back!
When the rule of law is under attack, We Stand Up and Fight Back!
I asked the AI and it said making stuff up for a report about healthcare seemed like a problem but it was really fine.
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Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I asked the AI and it said making stuff up for a report about healthcare seemed like a problem but it was really fine.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
Another huge opinion from 11th Cir.
Florida utility, its CEO and allegations “corporate malfeasance, bribery, off-the-books recordkeeping,surveilling journalists, creating ‘ghost’ candidates, corrupting independent media outlets, … “
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Florida utility, its CEO and allegations “corporate malfeasance, bribery, off-the-books recordkeeping,surveilling journalists, creating ‘ghost’ candidates, corrupting independent media outlets, … “
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
media.ca11.uscourts.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Another huge opinion from 11th Cir.
Florida utility, its CEO and allegations “corporate malfeasance, bribery, off-the-books recordkeeping,surveilling journalists, creating ‘ghost’ candidates, corrupting independent media outlets, … “
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Florida utility, its CEO and allegations “corporate malfeasance, bribery, off-the-books recordkeeping,surveilling journalists, creating ‘ghost’ candidates, corrupting independent media outlets, … “
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Eleventh Circuit upholds sanctions order against Trump and Habba.
Pryor authors opinion with Brasher and Kidd.
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Pryor authors opinion with Brasher and Kidd.
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media.ca11.uscourts.gov
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eleventh Circuit upholds sanctions order against Trump and Habba.
Pryor authors opinion with Brasher and Kidd.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Pryor authors opinion with Brasher and Kidd.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
We are honored to be partners with ACLU of Florida on this important fight.
BREAKING: We filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a state employee who was unfairly fired for private posts on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk. She’s fighting for her rights — because public employees have free speech too. We'll see you in court.
State Employee Sues Eastern Florida State College Board of Trustees for Retaliatory Firing Over Protected Speech - ACLU of Florida
www.aclufl.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We are honored to be partners with ACLU of Florida on this important fight.
We are honored to be partners with the ACLU of Florida in fighting for the free speech rights of government employees.
“Through this lawsuit, we’re standing up for every public employee whose rights have been chilled by government retaliation.”
www.aclufl.org/press-releas...
“Through this lawsuit, we’re standing up for every public employee whose rights have been chilled by government retaliation.”
www.aclufl.org/press-releas...
State Employee Sues Eastern Florida State College Board of Trustees for Retaliatory Firing Over Protected Speech - ACLU of Florida
www.aclufl.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We are honored to be partners with the ACLU of Florida in fighting for the free speech rights of government employees.
“Through this lawsuit, we’re standing up for every public employee whose rights have been chilled by government retaliation.”
www.aclufl.org/press-releas...
“Through this lawsuit, we’re standing up for every public employee whose rights have been chilled by government retaliation.”
www.aclufl.org/press-releas...
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A normal society would react to this by introducing regulations to prop betting or rolling back accessibility to online betting
Instead we'll just get a new TV spinoff, Law & Order: Sports Investigation
Instead we'll just get a new TV spinoff, Law & Order: Sports Investigation
HT to @dansuitor.bsky.social; the DOJ indictment against Clase and Ortiz has been unsealed. Not only were they rigging pitches for outside bettors based on Ball/Strike and pitch speed over/unders; they were sometimes betting on their own rigged pitches.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A normal society would react to this by introducing regulations to prop betting or rolling back accessibility to online betting
Instead we'll just get a new TV spinoff, Law & Order: Sports Investigation
Instead we'll just get a new TV spinoff, Law & Order: Sports Investigation
The video of the head of Conde Nast Human Resources refusing to speak with employees shows what looks a lot like protected concerted activity to me. 🤷👩⚖️⚖️
The most brutally awkward thing you'll see today: Condé Nast staffers confront head of HR Stan Duncan over layoffs outside his 34th-floor office.
Four of the employees featured in this exclusive video from the confrontation were then fired for "extreme misconduct."
The whole story: bit.ly/49EUgGk
Four of the employees featured in this exclusive video from the confrontation were then fired for "extreme misconduct."
The whole story: bit.ly/49EUgGk
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The video of the head of Conde Nast Human Resources refusing to speak with employees shows what looks a lot like protected concerted activity to me. 🤷👩⚖️⚖️
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“We know - just as Donald Trump does - that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.” NYC Union-Endorsed Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“We know - just as Donald Trump does - that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.” NYC Union-Endorsed Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani
Major win for my firm in Johnson v. Nocco (M.D. Fla.). Court holds that arrest of passenger for refusal to provide ID violated the 4th Amendment.
We’ll keep fighting to ensure law enforcement respect all of our constitutional rights.
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We’ll keep fighting to ensure law enforcement respect all of our constitutional rights.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Major win for my firm in Johnson v. Nocco (M.D. Fla.). Court holds that arrest of passenger for refusal to provide ID violated the 4th Amendment.
We’ll keep fighting to ensure law enforcement respect all of our constitutional rights.
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We’ll keep fighting to ensure law enforcement respect all of our constitutional rights.
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If I opened a late night restaurant near a college that only sold pizza bagels would I make millions or billions?
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If I opened a late night restaurant near a college that only sold pizza bagels would I make millions or billions?
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
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Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
“If you’re a law firm, … saying … we're going to represent who we want, and we're going to stand up for what we think is our core mission of upholding the law. And maybe we'll lose some business for that, but that's what we believe. That's what's needed.”
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WTF with Marc Maron 10/13/25
Barack Obama
WTF with Marc Maron 10/13/25
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October 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“If you’re a law firm, … saying … we're going to represent who we want, and we're going to stand up for what we think is our core mission of upholding the law. And maybe we'll lose some business for that, but that's what we believe. That's what's needed.”
Barack Obama
WTF with Marc Maron 10/13/25
Barack Obama
WTF with Marc Maron 10/13/25
Florida Republican State Senator Erin Grall has filed a new parental rights bill to require people under 18 to get their guardians’ permission in order to be treated for sexually transmissible diseases or receive information on contraception.
Erin Grall files bill that would require minors to get guardians’ permission for STD treatment
With the Legislature reconvening next year, Sen. Erin Grall filed a bill to strengthen parental rights over minors' health care.
floridapolitics.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Florida Republican State Senator Erin Grall has filed a new parental rights bill to require people under 18 to get their guardians’ permission in order to be treated for sexually transmissible diseases or receive information on contraception.
Florida Polytechnic eliminated its general counsel claiming it’s a cost savings measure. I will bet dollars to donuts they hire an expensive and politically connected Republican law firm to now do their legal work. The grift never stops.
October 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Florida Polytechnic eliminated its general counsel claiming it’s a cost savings measure. I will bet dollars to donuts they hire an expensive and politically connected Republican law firm to now do their legal work. The grift never stops.
LISTEN IN: To MidPoint on WMNF Free Speech Roundtable on Wed. 9/24, 10 am on 88.5 fm wmnf.org. Join lawyers Ryan Barack of employeerights.com, James Shaw former Chair ACLU of FL Legal Panel and Tiffany Hilton, former V.P. ACLU of FL for a discussion of free speech rights and the 1st Amendment.
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September 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
LISTEN IN: To MidPoint on WMNF Free Speech Roundtable on Wed. 9/24, 10 am on 88.5 fm wmnf.org. Join lawyers Ryan Barack of employeerights.com, James Shaw former Chair ACLU of FL Legal Panel and Tiffany Hilton, former V.P. ACLU of FL for a discussion of free speech rights and the 1st Amendment.
Here is Judge Merryday’s order striking Trump’s complaint. Merryday is a stickler for the rules and an order like this should have been expected. In some ways this helps Trump because it tells his lawyers to clean up their pleading without having to respond to a substantive motion to dismiss
New filing: "Trump v. New York Times (defamation etc.)"
Doc #5: ORDER striking the complaint. Signed by Senior District Judge Steven D. Merryday on 9/19/2025. (CJO) (Entered: 09/19/2025)
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Doc #5: ORDER striking the complaint. Signed by Senior District Judge Steven D. Merryday on 9/19/2025. (CJO) (Entered: 09/19/2025)
Download PDF | View Full Case
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September 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Here is Judge Merryday’s order striking Trump’s complaint. Merryday is a stickler for the rules and an order like this should have been expected. In some ways this helps Trump because it tells his lawyers to clean up their pleading without having to respond to a substantive motion to dismiss
The Florida Bar filed a comment on the petition of the Fla Attorney General and others to allow out of state attorneys to practice law in Florida without having to pass the Bar Exam. You can read it here. acis-api.flcourts.gov/courts/68f02...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Florida Bar filed a comment on the petition of the Fla Attorney General and others to allow out of state attorneys to practice law in Florida without having to pass the Bar Exam. You can read it here. acis-api.flcourts.gov/courts/68f02...
Folks need to be reading 404 Media which continues to have the most important and interesting reporting on tech issues, like this story about how a very well known dashcam company was very easily hacked and is selling the videos you are recording to governments.
www.404media.co/this-company...
www.404media.co/this-company...
This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Folks need to be reading 404 Media which continues to have the most important and interesting reporting on tech issues, like this story about how a very well known dashcam company was very easily hacked and is selling the videos you are recording to governments.
www.404media.co/this-company...
www.404media.co/this-company...
State of Florida is painting over ALL street murals statewide. They cannot acknowledge any acceptance of gay, trans or black folks so anything that does needs to be silenced. If that requires destroying the artwork of children or parents so they can claim to be content neutral they are ok with that.
August 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
State of Florida is painting over ALL street murals statewide. They cannot acknowledge any acceptance of gay, trans or black folks so anything that does needs to be silenced. If that requires destroying the artwork of children or parents so they can claim to be content neutral they are ok with that.
On Aug 1 the Ninth Circuit lifted a stay in AFGE v Trump, essentially allowing Trump to end labor rights for federal employees. The Executive Order holds that virtually all federal employees, except for the few unions politically aligned with Trump, primarily work in national security.
Federal judges side with Trump on ending union bargaining for federal workers
A federal appeals court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, lifting a temporary block on a March executive order that prevented government workers from union bargaining. The three judge…
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August 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
On Aug 1 the Ninth Circuit lifted a stay in AFGE v Trump, essentially allowing Trump to end labor rights for federal employees. The Executive Order holds that virtually all federal employees, except for the few unions politically aligned with Trump, primarily work in national security.
Trump’s new executive order on college sports isn’t about saving anything. It protects a system built on unpaid labor while billions flow to universities, coaches, and corporate partners.
It discourages revenue sharing and tells the DOL and NLRB to keep calling athletes “not employees.”
It discourages revenue sharing and tells the DOL and NLRB to keep calling athletes “not employees.”
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Saves College Sports
SAVING COLLEGE SPORTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect student-athletes and collegiate athletic scholarships and
whitehouse.gov
August 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Trump’s new executive order on college sports isn’t about saving anything. It protects a system built on unpaid labor while billions flow to universities, coaches, and corporate partners.
It discourages revenue sharing and tells the DOL and NLRB to keep calling athletes “not employees.”
It discourages revenue sharing and tells the DOL and NLRB to keep calling athletes “not employees.”
In Fulton v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners, the 11th Cir holds that Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause provides a direct cause of action against local governments—even without a statutory remedy like § 1983. Takings Clause is “self-executing,” entitling property owners to just compensation.
Eleventh Circuit Recognizes Direct Cause of Action Under the Takings Clause
In Fulton v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners, the Eleventh Circuit held that the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause provides a direct cause of action against local governments—even without a statut...
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July 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In Fulton v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners, the 11th Cir holds that Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause provides a direct cause of action against local governments—even without a statutory remedy like § 1983. Takings Clause is “self-executing,” entitling property owners to just compensation.
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Who are the out-of-state developers financing the effort to create a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee - and why are they banking on a collapse of society as we know it?
July 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Who are the out-of-state developers financing the effort to create a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee - and why are they banking on a collapse of society as we know it?