Wishing everyone who celebrates #RamadanMubarak

Made some light lamps for Ramadan ✨️ #b3d

www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-dea.... I saw countless Chinese EVs in Pakistan last time I was there. They’re… good.

The calls are coming from inside the house. One location ping is nothing. A thousand pings is a biography. That is digital exhaust, and it is where Fourth Amendment doctrine starts to sweat. #Privacy #DigitalExhaust #FourthAmendment #CivilLiberties #appellatesky www.iboymag.com/essay-sgul-l...

If the Solicitor General is to be called General—when really Solicitors General are Solicitors, not Generals— I think it only appropriate that we henceforth refer to any Associate Justice as Associate.

For those who are grateful that they protect #privacy by opting out… your neighbors have it, every establishment around has it… no man is an island and all that.

Something for my children to look forward to inshallah. 🇺🇸

This might be my nerd like instinct, but don’t government vehicles have government plates? This appears to have NY plates.

@saadgul.bsky.social - relevant to your interests.

A future that was never forecast. #privacy #iot

Testimony no. I can see this happening at a deposition.

When #AI meets #appellate law. #appellatesky www.linkedin.com/pulse/credib...

Durham County. For a federal office. Someone didn’t take civil procedure.

A venue statute for delivery rooms: be a citizen, pay taxes, pass the bar, and still get bounced because your birth certificate has the wrong zip code.

I have a lawyer yakking litigation strategy on the plane. Seriously. Shut up. #lawsky

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

Clearly, he’s on a mission from God.

Inconceivable!

How come every damn flight is “completely full” every dsy, and asks for volunteers to check bags. Having done that for American Airlines, being bounced around for months, and then denied compensation for a “late claim” (as soon as their people would process it… nope.)

Raffi, I’m truly sorry. I was honored to meet your father at SCOTUS; his warmth and pride in you were unmistakable. In the Muslim tradition, we say, “From God we come and to Him we return.” Wishing you and your family strength and gentle days ahead.

Mourning mentor and friend, Charles “Chuck” Cole, who led #Steptoe appellate with brilliance and kindness. Wise, patient, and unfailingly humane in a profession that doesn’t always reward those traits. He was a man, take him for all in all; I shall not look upon his like again #appellatesky

Wow

@gregdoucette.bsky.social @saadgul.bsky.social

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing everyone a happy thanksgiving

To have it happen once is an unfortunate accident, to have it happen twice…

AI law went from vibes to code. EU’s AI Act bars some uses. US regulators have proposed 59 AI rules. Britain decided to enact self compliance pledges into law. The hands-off stage has left the chat. #AI #law #privacy

Ah #AI tells me that speech about Muslim issues (not anti-Muslim bigotry… Muslim issues in general) is considered “high risk” and runs into “guardrails” that don’t affect other groups. With this approach, the future will be interesting. #ChatGPT

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An #AppellateSky aside, 50 Ways to Lose your Writ: Chorus: Remedy at law, Shaw Why were you late, Kate You filed way too soon, June Just get yourself screwed Res judicata, Ata You don't need to rewrite it Just get it reviewed, Dude And get yourself screwed

Ah #AI tells me that speech about Muslim issues (not anti-Muslim bigotry… Muslim issues in general) is considered “high risk” and runs into “guardrails” that don’t affect other groups. With this approach, the future will be interesting. #ChatGPT

spaceballs, the heist!

bit.ly/3JOvhG3 he would’ve said “take the deal.” #lawandorder

I don’t know any state that doesn’t. Had a related case once-apparently goes back to ye olde Europe, Montesquieu, separation of powers, and that the authority of the executive branch didn’t rest entirely in the Governor.

Not saying I once lived in this apartment, but not denying it either.

Ah, the number of times a lawyer tells a dinner or social gathering about something related to the discussion, to gasps and “they couldn’t do that! It would be against the law!” O sweet child…. #lawsky

“Navigating state #privacy statutes is rather like untangling spaghetti—one wrong move and you’ve got a sauce-stained lap and an annoyed judiciary.” #appellatesky

Has she ever been right about anything?

Been there.

“Be you ever so high, the law is above you.” (Thomas Fuller, quoted by Lord Denning in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers [1978] AC 435.) The one-line answer to “Don’t you know who I am?” #RuleOfLaw #appellatesky

Inconceivable!

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

“They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Brandeis, J., dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928). #privacy #appellatesky

Congratulations to old schoolmate Mosharraf Zaidi, ever a good sport in social-media dust-ups, on being named spokesperson to the Prime Minister of Pakistan; corrections now come with a crest.

Sarbanes–Oxley (SOP)

There’s no such thing as bad publicity?

Law & Order and its various spinoffs have done more to erode the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments than the Supreme Court

Ah, American Airlines! 1. Insist your bag in merely delayed and you’re rushing to file a claim when flt lands. 2. Offers 7 different excuses by my count for denying compensation 3. Denies compensation bc their “records show” a claim filed when flt landed was “not timely”

Keys to Wake Forest's success: a QB who can throw a ball within 5 yards of any Wake player.

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent "‘Be what?’ ‘Pro-active, I think. It’s a word he’s using a lot.’ ‘What does that mean?’ ‘Well…in favour of activity, I suppose.’ ‘Really? Dangerous. In my experience, inactivity sees you through.’"