Transgender teen can't legally change name until age 21, Mississippi Supreme Court rules, even though both parents support change https://www.advocate.com/law/mississippi-transgender-teen-name-change

Bans on gender affirming care are so obviously not rooted in science or parental rights.

#law #FediLaw #LGBTQ #trans #animus #ChristianNationalism

Trans teen can't change name until age 21, MS court rules

The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a 16-year-old trans boy cannot legally change his name even with the support of both his parents.

Advocate.com

Bill requiring Ten Commandments display in Arkansas public buildings becomes law https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2025-04-15/bill-requiring-ten-commandments-display-in-arkansas-public-buildings-becomes-law

This includes every public school classroom from K to colleges

And not just any Decalogue. The law specifies language, which includes
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife..."

Apart from being age inappropriate for five year olds, sexist much?

#law #religion #FediLaw #ChristianNationalism

Bill requiring Ten Commandments display in Arkansas public buildings becomes law

A copy of the Ten Commandments must be on display in every state-owned building, as well as every public school and college classroom in Arkansas.

UALR

Case of the Day: Tesla v. Balan. The Ninth Circuit has a fun procedural decision about subject-matter jurisdiction and domestic arbitration.

#fedilaw #arbitration

https://lettersblogatory.com/2025/04/16/case-of-the-day-tesla-v-balan/

Case of the Day: Tesla v. Balan | Letters Blogatory

In Tesla v. Balan, the Ninth Circuit held that courts lack jurisdiction to confirm 'zero-dollar' arbitral awards under FAA Chapter 1.

Letters Blogatory
‘Stop Brexit Man’ cleared of flouting ban on playing music outside parliament

Court ruled Steve Bray’s anti-Tory and anti-Brexit protest featuring The Muppet Show and Darth Vader themes was lawful expression of his views

The Guardian

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html

From response letter of Harvard's lawyers: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal govt."

More of this "fuck off" energy please.

Just say NO.

[Lawyers from Quinn Emannuel and King & Spalding for those keeping track]

#law #fediLaw #Harvard #Trump #Fuckoff

Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands

Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.

The New York Times

@stephanie Okay, I found 10 CFR 430, "ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAM FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS."

There's definitions at squiggle 430.2 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/430.2), and here’s what it says for "showerhead":

"Showerhead means a component or set of components distributed in commerce for attachment to a single supply fitting, for spraying water onto a bather, typically from an overhead position, excluding safety shower showerheads.”

It does not appear to have been amended today.

#fedilaw

10 CFR § 430.2 - Definitions.

LII / Legal Information Institute
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family

Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from a spring break trip with his family.

Detroit Free Press

A Playbook for Standing Up to Trump:

“The three law firms that have filed suits to block Mr. Trump’s executive orders — Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — provide a model. So far, they are winning in court. Importantly, they have won the backing of many conservatives. As our counterparts on The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote, Mr. Trump’s campaign against law firms “breaks a cornerstone principle of American justice.””

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion/trump-law-firms-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.9Lr7.lRcvxxKzhC0e&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#GiftArticle #GiftLink #law #fedilaw #lawfedi #NYT #RuleofLaw #BigLaw #resist #resistance

Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump

Law firms and universities do not need to capitulate. Here’s how they can fight back.

The New York Times

@heidilifeldman

#USpil #TrumpCoup #Legal #FediLaw #Resist #HandsOff!

You are very welcome, but in fact, thank *YOU* for standing up and not being a #collaborator.

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Now, I'm not a fan of his, but at the rate that even fellow Americans are being converted in Latin-American style #LosDesaparecidos 1)... well, he has a point making a historical comparison with Nazi occupied #France 🇫🇷.

Vive la Résistance!

The internet never forgets!

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