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Sad but true, probably
@notacopinaz.bsky.social
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There is almost nothing honorable about the judiciary.

Just your average 46 year old pro se litigant headed to Arizona Supreme Court.
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I've got a new Essay out in ‪@columlrev.bsky.social‬: MONELL'S UNTAPPED POTENTIAL. In it, I set out an overlooked argument for municipal liability-a claim for failure to supervise based on police departments' inattention to lawsuit allegations & information.🧵1/4 columbialawreview.org/wp-content/u...
May 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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radlegaltakes.bsky.social
True story. Throughout the day I would do my best to recognize every single positive thing I could be grateful for, even if it was something as simple as: “I’m grateful that the hole is so quiet, while the rest of the jail is so noisy.” I would then affirm out loud my gratitude.

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March 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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mikaelthalen.bsky.social
NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...
EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider
Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.
www.dailydot.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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donzeko.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible judicial conduct here
Judge resigns after saying he can't be on a jury since he thinks all defendants are guilty
Richard T. Snyder, who was elected as a New York judge and an attorney, was charged with misconduct before he left his post.
www.cbsnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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qjurecic.bsky.social
doesn't this undercut like ... all plea negotiations www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
Plea bargaining and plea agreements are governed by the same fundamental considerations that apply to step two of charging decisions. There is no room in plea bargaining for political animus or other hostility. Prosecutors may not use criminal charges to exert leverage to induce a guilty plea. Nor may a prosecutor abandon pending charges to achieve a plea bargain that is inconsistent with the prosecutor's assessment of the seriousness of the defendant's conduct at the time the charges were filed. For example, absent significant mitigating or intervening circumstances, it will rarely be appropriate for a prosecutor to seek racketeering or terrorism charges at the outset of a case but abandon those charges in connection with a plea deal.
February 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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radlegaltakes.bsky.social
Harlow’s “clearly established law” standard is a clearly established scam of circular reasoning.

#LawSky #AppellateSky #LawTwitter
December 31, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
3d Cir. upholds a 10-to-1 ratio of punitive-to-compensatory damages in a case involving a prison guard who sexually abused a prisoner twice. Says the 10-to-1 ratio is "fitting" in this case and does not violate due process.

www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232...
Even considered separately, both ratios pass constitutional muster. The first was 1.25 to 1 ($25,000 punitive to $20,000 compensatory); the second, 10 to 1 ($200,000 to $20,000). True, the latter ratio exceeds single digits—but by only a penny, not “a significant degree.” State Farm, 538 U.S. at 425. And because the single-digit ratio is only a rule of thumb, not a cap, it just alerts us to look for a “special justification.” CGB Occupational Therapy, Inc. v. RHA Health Servs., Inc., 499 F.3d 184, 192 (3d Cir. 2007) (internal quotation marks omitted). We have that here. Sexual assault inflicts the kind of noneconomic harm that is hard to put a price on, justifying a higher ratio. State Farm, 538 U.S. at 425. Plus, the rationales for punitive damages are to punish wrongdoing and deter it. Id. at 416. Oswald repeated his sadistic assault, making him more blameworthy and compounding Washington’s earlier suffering. Just as the criminal law punishes recidivists more harshly for failing to learn their lessons and choosing to flout the law again, so too does the civil law.
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM