Rebecca Tushnet
Rebecca Tushnet is an American legal scholar. She serves as the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard… more
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But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers.
So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.
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Judge Daniel previously sanctioned Hughes Sokol $500 under Rule 11(b)(3). On Friday, he granted reconsideration and decided that, for now, a warning is sufficient.
![MINUTE entry before the Honorable Jeremy C. Daniel: The plaintiff's motion to
reconsider [20] is granted. The Court vacates the sanction imposed on September 2, 2025
in Dkt. No. 18. The reasoning set forth in that order still applies. However, upon further
reflection, the Court thinks a warning is appropriate. As with the plaintiff's response to the
rule to show cause, the plaintiff's motion for reconsideration largely misses the mark. It
does not matter that the plaintiff considered the relief sought to be "narrowly tailored."
What matters is that the plaintiff made claims that lack evidentiary support. How the
plaintiff can allege in good faith that this defendant would do certain things when
plaintiff's counsel concedes that he has not dealt with this defendant before is
beyond this Court's comprehension. That the Court previously granted motions to seal
does not help the plaintiff either. The issue is the plaintiff's conduct in this case, not prior
cases. That the Court failed to appropriately scrutinize past motions to seal does not justify
continued violations of Rule 11. The Court has learned from its mistakes and suggests that
plaintiff's counsel do the same. That this is the first time the Court has called out the
plaintiff's unsupported claims does not help plaintiff's counsel. "Repetition," as used in
Rule 11, refers to future, not past, conduct. One cannot deter the past, plaintiff's arguments
notwithstanding. Finally, there was nothing ambiguous about the rule to show cause order.
The entire order centered on the plaintiff's motion to seal. (See R. 13.) Mailed notice. (vcf,
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They see their mission the same way the Trump administration sees it - as a state of war, not against immigrants, but against cities.
They correctly understand themselves to be at war against Chicago and all who live in her.
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![For example, the plaintiff seeks to enforce the “LEBRON” word mark in a case where the defendant’s advertised and sold a pair of retro Jordans, which have nothing to do with the LEBRON mark. Case: 1:25-cv-03777 Document #: 37 Filed: 10/10/25 Page 1 of 4 PageID #:748
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The plaintiff has since filed a supplement to address those concerns. The plaintiff argues that, “[t]here is no statute or Seventh Circuit decision requiring that permanent injunctions prohibiting trademark infringement and counterfeiting must be limited to the specific marks that a plaintiff caught a defendant infringing.” That is not true. “[A] plaintiff seeking a permanent injunction must satisfy a four-factor test before a court may grant such relief.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hvwhptk4oerwsuzau66ikwfy/bafkreiazcoio4uabb4aowjbdkxonkote3khrksxfglniw5xwxhn7q3hmwu@jpeg)
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This shit is indeed bananas
The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
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this piece from @whyy.org is great
an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive
whyy.org/segments/oze...
When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen
www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...
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![MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g6asx7scljsgdu3vqwtyfszj/bafkreicl3kfjx7xje7b3dlxsdwo2c7nq4wq5yhskho45valakmqacw5lk4@jpeg)
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This statement essentially admits that the State Department is engaging viewpoint discrimination in revoking these visas.
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Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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