Policy Building Blocks: Preliminary Injunctive Relief
Few areas of law have lately been as relevant, and the focus of so much dispute, as preliminary injunctive relief. Because the subject has come up so many times already,…
Leaking By Leaving: Guest Finds Trump-Putin Summit Docs In Alaskan Hotel Room
While this latest bit of low-key embarrassment may not be a black eye for the administration, it certainly isn’t putting any more lipstick on this pig. Whatever you may think…
Federal Judge Delivers Judicial Smackdown To FTC’s Politically Motivated Attack On Media Matters
A federal judge has delivered an extraordinary rebuke to the FTC’s Andrew Ferguson, finding that his investigation into Media Matters was motivated by “retaliatory animus” rather than legitimate antitrust concerns.…
Daily Deal: Adobe Acrobat Classic + Microsoft Office Professional License Bundle
Get Adobe Acrobat Classic 3-Year and Microsoft Office Pro 2021 licenses: your all-in-one bundle for editing PDFs, creating docs, and working smarter on Windows. With Adobe Acrobat Classic, you can…
Data Shows ICE Deportation Efforts Are Way More Aggressive In ‘Blue’ States
Trump and his GOP enablers wouldn’t know subtlety if it held them down and punched them in the face repeatedly. Being a little bit crafty is never an option for…
Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken
A fusion of authoritarianism and corporatism is destroying what’s left of already soggy U.S. federal consumer protection and corporate oversight. You might not know this because the U.S. press and…
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Strawb with a reply to a couple parts of a comment on our post about “Trump derangement syndrome” turning…
This Week In Techdirt History: August 10th – 16th
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the idea that banning TikTok thwarts Chinese intelligence was ridiculous, and how any real threat probably comes from America’s…
As The Nintendo, Palworld Lawsuit Continues, Switch 2 Store Hosts Blatant Palworld Clone
We’ve talked a bunch about the lawsuit drama between Nintendo and the Pokémon Co. against PocketPair, the makers of the hit game Palworld. The short version goes something like this.…
Report: Apple’s smart home ambitions include “tabletop robot,” cameras, and more
Rumors about a touchscreen-equipped smart home device from Apple have been circulating for years, periodically bolstered by leaked references in Apple’s software updates. But a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman…