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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 14h

I cannot, based on reading this opinion, figure out how the defense could've possibly thought it was a good idea to introduce that testimony

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 17h

Different facts of course, but Eddy Grant won a lawsuit vs. Trump and the Trump campaign for sharing a meme using "Electric Avenue" without his permission.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18h

Yesterday brought news that country star Zach Bryan is dropping a song critical of ICE.

Today, the official DHS account trolls him by using one of his songs (without permission, one strongly presumes) over the kind of cinematic footage Trump loves, of masked federal agents clashing with Americans.

Screenshot of a tweet from @DHSgov dated 7 October 2025. It shows a video of federal agents, under the text "We’re having an All Night Revival"

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 23h

I guess I will live blog the argument. Unless I get too disgusted and stop.

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

Hello!

I am your friendly neighborhood First Amendment professor here to provide some background on Chiles v. Salazar, to be argued in Supreme Court this morning.

At issue is whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from inflicting the discredited practice of “conversion therapy” on minors

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 20h

Presumably he wants file another amended complaint to cure any deficiencies so he bypasses Rule 11 sanctions (at least for now).

Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 20h

Looks like Trump is trying to delay his own bogus lawsuit over the Selzer poll. Here he asks the court to withdraw his amended complaint in response to a motions to dismiss.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

What side of the car is the driver's seat?

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

What would be a good, moderately difficult but a little scary road to drive instead?

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

My son would 100% be driving this

Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lawsuit he told the Navy he won, right?

Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lawsuit that Trump told the entire US Navy that he already won

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

Side note, I think it's funny how "Temu" has become a colloquial derogatory term for fakes. It used to be "astroturf", so much that people forgot that Astroturf is a trademark. I don't know what Temu is doing about this.

Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

Temu alleges that Shein sends hundreds of fraudulent DMCA takedown notices against it, including for photos to which it doesn't have rights.

In this opinion, the court allows Temu's DMCA misrepresentation claims to proceed.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Whaleco v Shein opinion

www.documentcloud.org

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

That exchange is kind of Sorkin-ish but if he wrote the dialogue it would be the lawyer saying "I'm a lawyer"

Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

Temu alleges that Shein falsely claims ownership in the works, inundates Temu with tens of thousands of DMCA claims, and refuses to provide proof of ownership on request.

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

In its motion to dismiss, Shein argued that Temu hasn't alleged that it "knowingly" misrepresented copyright infringement. But that was easily taken care of in Temu's complaint.

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

Temu alleges that Shein sends hundreds of fraudulent DMCA takedown notices against it, including for photos to which it doesn't have rights.

In this opinion, the court allows Temu's DMCA misrepresentation claims to proceed.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Whaleco v Shein opinion

www.documentcloud.org

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 1d

And Trump is so stubbornly dimwitted that he doesn't know this isn't what his Executive Order does. You can find the video where his staff is explaining it to him and he still doesn't get it.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 4d

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared.

While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Zvi S. Rosen @zvirosen.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently in the first nine months of 2025 the US Copyright Office registered over 3,000 works which list AI content in material which is in the work but excluded from the claim. This is the standard practice now. The vast majority were text but hundreds in music as well.

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 2d

You know I can’t say I bat 1000 but I’ve never been reminded by a judge that I’m a lawyer

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 2d

was it Lebron?

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 2d

Building on this:

When I turned 30, I had no intention of being a lawyer, or even ever going back to school. I had not yet met my wife, the mother of our teenage son. I didn't own a suit. And I had never had a dog.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 4d

Footnote 4 is making my eyes bleed.

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 4d

Now that you've called attention to that part, I'll look at it, thanks

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. It
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since
a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social · 4d

So yes, a court did indeed find that Wu-Tang Clain ain't nuthin to fuck with.

But keep in mind this isn't a ruling that the album is a trade secret, only that the plaintiff can move forward with the claim and prove that it is. 5/5
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

PleasrDAO v Shkreli - Wu Tang trade secret opinion

www.documentcloud.org