Re-watching '88 WS Game 2 (I was there as 8yo), and A's righty Storm Davis is clear grandfather for Trey Yesavage's mechanics. Deep dive needed @pitchingninja.com youtu.be/6gXRh4ftmDM?...

Gorsuch giving Sauer the business

Imagine being a manly and strong DOD that cannot handle ordinary media coverage

Not a popular guy! Companies considering cowering should bear that in mind and act accordingly

On top of everything else about the pretextual censorship of Jimmy Kimmel, it speaks very poorly of how Disney/ABC will stick up for their talent in the face of bad faith attacks. The town should and will take notice.

Neil Young last night. Rock as politics and protest. Classics like “Ohio” taking on new urgency these days

big Sunday xword for legal puzzlers

Some context for thinking about crime: Since the start of 2023, the murder rate in traditionally Republican states has been about 50% higher than in other states, even when you include D.C. (Figures are from CDC's cause-of-death reporting.)

I’ve helped raise money for my law alma mater for years, but as I just emailed them, I will stop doing so if a UCLA capitulation happens in any shape or form

We desperately need this in LA. Can’t wait

Harry Enten: "I think we can say Donald Trump has lost the political battle when it comes to what has happened in Los Angeles. Trump's net approval rating on LA - way, way underwater at -15 points... this is happening on what should be on Donald Trump's best issue ... he's losing on his core issue"

We out here. Bryant Park, NYC #NoKings

This is insane and completely outrageous. Hands off our Senator.

Shame this wasn't filed on Halloween. Lawsuit over gravestone design just begs for judge to write, "Because the design lacks sufficient originality, this copyright claim is... dead."

Frankly embarrassed it took me this long, but I just subscribed to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social’s must-read @status.news

“ChatGPT, is this reversible error?” Good lord

Legitimately had to wonder which of the several cases this was for

Just finished the fantastic new book on NYT v. Sullivan and the state of libel law by @davidenrich.bsky.social

Proud that Manatt has signed this important amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie and the rule of law

News: Supreme Court **denies** petition from Trump megadonor Steve Wynn, who was seeking to overturn NYT v. Sullivan as part of his effort to reinstate his lawsuit against the Associated Press. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Spot on--citing our case for Daniel Ramirez Medina

Should judges and the public take the administration's assertions of immigrants' alleged gang membership at face value? Of course not. The admin's own history of attempting this gambit with our client Daniel Ramirez-Medina in 2017 utterly destroys its credibility on this issue. I'll explain... 1/

What are we doing here, folks? The overreach is really something

Both outrageous and completely predictable

Tame Impala, Bon Iver, the War on Drugs, Fleet Foxes @ the Echo (all diff shows)

Telling SDNY to drop the Adams case and neutering the FCPA on the same day—the pro-corruption message is unmistakable

Reagan appointee. Full comments from the bench are 🎯: “I’ve been on the bench for four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”

And apparently the incoming head of the FCC has told CBS News' owners that the president's personal dislike of their protected speech will have regulatory consequences.

Who podded it better?

Skimmed at least 2 articles about the new Drake v UMG suit that don’t include an actual link to the pleading. Cmon folks…

Landlords, maybe don’t do this in a crisis or else expect the state AG to come calling (cc Rob Bonta)

Fairly remarkable site that’s already up to help assess fire damages if you have been unable to get an update

Finally some good news

Key thread here 👇

Never seen this before. let’s bring it back, @dodgers youtu.be/iL5jQ-AGuM4?...

A man chased down and choked a journalist in Colorado, demanding to see their ID and berating them about their nationality “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine, and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!,” he reportedly said

Quick thread on problems with this obviously frivolous suit. First, it reads like an AI-written airing of grievances and is based on a frivolous application of Iowa's *consumer* frauds law, which of course does not cover public polling and the reporting about that poll.

Among other facially ludicrous problems with such a suit, there was and could be no cognizable harm to the Trump campaign.

Is the “bias meter” stating its opinion? Making assertions of fact as to the contents of the pieces it critiques? I look forward to the inevitable the-bias-meter-defamed-me lawsuits and other unintended consequences

just finished Race Against Time by legendary MS reporter Jerry Mitchell. Incredible accounts of his dogged, years’ later investigations of civil rights murders. Started the hardback but finished by listening to the audiobook narrated by Mitchell himself, which I cannot recommend enough

This all makes a case for candidates disclosing to voters their proposed cabinet *before* the election, though i'm equally sure it would not much move the needle

Hi, folks, IP-media-entertainment-1A litigator here in LA. Longtime Bluesky lurker, but plan to start engaging more here in anticipation of the work that needs to be done in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

Googles “Streisand Effect”

Relevant today: the amicus brief I joined www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22... The key point: "Florida’s and Texas’s social media laws, if allowed to stand, would thwart the ability of platforms to moderate social media posts that risk undermining U.S. democracy and fomenting violence."

"The platforms’ editorial choices are fully protected by the First Amendment... Florida’s and Texas’s social media laws, if allowed to stand, would thwart the ability of platforms to moderate social media posts that risk undermining U.S. democracy and fomenting violence."

New Amicus Brief Filed in Supreme Court in NetChoice Social Media Cases (on Behalf of Brendan Nyhan, Amy Wilentz, and Me) on How Texas and Florida’s Social Media Laws Raise the Risk of Election Subversion electionlawblog.org?p=140023

This seems unquestionably correct.