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The Guardian: Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst . “A professional YouTuber in Queensland has been ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs to the former world record score holder for Donkey Kong, after the Brisbane district court found the YouTuber had defamed him ‘recklessly’ with false claims of a link between a lawsuit and another […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/the-guardian-donkey-kong-champion-wins-defamation-case-against-australian-youtuber-karl-jobst/

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The #legal #rights people have if #ICE stops them

A sense of anxiety is gripping noncitizen residents of the #UnitedStates.

The 2nd #Trump admin kicked off w/a shock-&-awe effort aimed at arresting & deporting many immigrants without legal status. But stories are now emerging of both longtime legal permanent residents & visa holders being detained by ICE & other #immigration *officers*.

#law #Constitution #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Rendition #Abduction #CivilRights
npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-53424

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But we don’t live there anymore. We live in a country where the fed govt allies itself w/Russian & South American #dictators while taking sides against #democratic #allies. A country that threatens its neighbors w/annexation. A country that views the #GenevaConventions as namby-pamby suggestions that only apply to suckers & losers. A country that uses #SecretPolice.

And perhaps most importantly, a country where the regime no longer abides by rulings from the existing #legal system.

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#NY has a #ShieldLaw that is intended to protect #AbortionProviders who send medications to patients in other states.

New York is 1 of 8 states that have enacted “telemedicine abortion shield laws” after #SCOTUS overturned the national right to an #abortion in 2022. The laws prevent ofcls from extraditing abortion providers to other states or from responding to subpoenas & other #legal actions…

The action by the NY court is the first time that an abortion shield law has been used.

Reuters: Anthropic wins early round in music publishers’ AI copyright case. “Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), opens new tab and other music publishers to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/27/reuters-anthropic-wins-early-round-in-music-publishers-ai-copyright-case/

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@heidilifeldman

I agree, you might add #LawFedi, #FediLaw, #Legal, and #LegalNews to your text for reach.

Also, a headline helps quite a bit, as well as an image or link.

👉#ClientRepresentation: Trump Administration on Course To Destroy Rule Of Law👈

Also, this reminds me of Russia's treatment of lawyers having defended political dissidents.

apnews.com/article/russia-oppo

It is a clear case of #FirstTheyCame:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/

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