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Trump Loses CNN Defamation Case As Own Appointees at Conservative Appeals Court Rejects 'Big Lie' Election Coverage

Donald Trump's £370 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, centered on the 'Big Lie' phrase, was dismissed by a federal appeals court, closing off appellate avenues.

International Business Times UK

Corpus Linguistics, LLM AIs, and the Assessment of Ordinary Meaning

As we show in a draft article, corpus linguistic tools have been shown to do what LLM AIs cannot—produce transparent, replicable evidence of how a word or phrase is ordinarily used by the public.

Federal Judge, ICE Agents Linked to Compromised Spyware Use

The surveillance company mSpy just suffered its third data breach in a decade, exposing government officials snooping for both official and unofficial reasons.

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Black-Women-Only Grant Program Likely Violates Federal Law, Isn't Protected by First Amendment

From American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Mgmt., LLC, decided today by the Eleventh Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judge Robert Luck: [We hold that] the Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, an entrepreneurship funding competition open only to businesses owned by black women, [likely]…

Judge Suggests Courts Should Consider Using "AI-Powered Large Language Models" in Interpreting "Ordinary Meaning"

That's from Judge Kevin Newsom's concurrence yesterday in Snell v. United Specialty Ins. Co.; the opinion is quite detailed and thoughtful, so people interested in the subject should read the whole thing. Here, though, is the introduction and the conclusion: I concur in the Court's judgment and join its opinion…

Does the Law of Standing "Need a Rewrite" After TransUnion?

Another federal appellate judge expresses discontent with current standing doctrine.

Court hears appeal by prosecutor suspended by DeSantis

Federal judges on Tuesday heard arguments over whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrongly suspended an elected state prosecutor last year because of comments he made opposing abortion prosecutions

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An appeals court finds Florida's social media law unconstitutional

An appeals court finds Florida's social media law unconstitutional

In a blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said social media companies' moderation and curation efforts were protected by the First Amendment.

Appeals court: Florida law on social media unconstitutional

Appeals court: Florida law on social media unconstitutional

A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for allegedly discriminating against conservative thought is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment

The Independent UK

"Illegal Aliens" "May Be 'Disqualified from' Possessing Arms Without Violating the Second Amendment"

So the Eleventh Circuit held today in U.S. v. Jimenez-Shilon, in an opinion by Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judges Elizabeth Branch and Andrew Brasher; the opinion focused on Framing-era history, and concludes, [Under eighteenth-century law,] aliens could not surreptitiously enter a foreign nation in violation of the immigration prerogatives…

Challenge to Univ. of Central Florida's "Bias-Related Incidents" Policy Can Go Forward

More from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story); seems quite right to me: The bias-related-incidents policy creates a mechanism by which a UCF student can be anonymously accused of an…

Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down Univ. of Central Florida's "Discriminatory Harassment" Speech Code

An excerpt from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story), which generally strikes me as quite right: [In] determining the propriety of preliminary injunctive relief[, we consider, among other things, whether…

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