I just want to say that if I ever get on the Supreme Court I am going to be reasonable. I will not require you to ply me with private jets and yachts to private estates and exclusive famous resorts and $5k bottles of wine.
Business class (or even economy plus) to an AirBnB in Maui and six or seven boxes of those Cutwater Mai Tais would totally do the trick. Then I will TOTALLY stop deferring to Chevron. I will not defer to ANY gas stations.
I am a man of the people.
I'm digesting the opinion now, but it's groundbreaking that the plaintiff could win anything on summary judgment, as a matter of law, here, against a news organization, on a defamation claim. it is bad news for fox, despite the fact that some of the elements will "still" have to go to trial.
Davis found that Dominion proved defamation per se, particularly on the point of falsity, see his use of ALL CAPS, bold and *italics*, in the passage below.
I put together a Substack post collecting all the live-tweet threads of the N.D. Cal. "420" trial (https://thechancerydaily.substack.com/p/in-re-tesla-securities-litigation/comments) and--combined w/live-tooting the SolarCity argument this morning (https://masto.ai/@chancerydaily/110104738390928605), and trying to capture the Fox/Snap ruling live for distribution here (https://masto.ai/@chancerydaily/110107196458082572) and to our main mailing list--I am so present to how much focused attention and adrenal stress it takes/causes to do this kind of coverage.
I tired y'all. Need juice box.
France is making an aggressive push to promote nuclear power in the EU, seeking to rally allies for battles to come in a stand-off with Germany over the bloc’s energy policy.
Paris persuaded 10 countries, including Hungary and Bulgaria, to join a “nuclear alliance” calling on Brussels to do more to back atomic energy, a move they argued would help meet climate goals while protecting the EU’s energy independence.
https://www.ft.com/content/f7a79b52-ff1a-4336-82c1-ed359df60173
"The evidence shows a founder CEO single-largest shareholder's self-appointed techno-king of Tesla alone promulgates masterplans for the company. running w/out board supervision and a board which is sufficiently empowered by him to sit idle while he single-handedly wages war with the company's primary regulator to engage the company's engineers for his private interest and contribute sadly to the deterioration of more than half of Tesla's market capitalization in a matter of a few months."
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I just listened to Joshua Browder on Bob Ambrogi's Law Next podcast,¹ and ICYMI he pretty much admitted to doctoring the receipt from RIP Medical Debt when he confirmed that he didn't actually make the donation until 4 mins after @kathryntewson prodded him.²
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¹ https://lawnext.libsyn.com/ep-193-a-bit-of-a-nothingburger-joshua-browder-speaks-to-the-donotpay-controversy
² For context see https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/30/donotpays-ceo-appears-to-modify-donation-receipt-after-being-called-out-on-unfulfilled-promise/
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