July 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Fla. Blogger Says Anti-SLAPP Law Allows Immediate Appeal
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Fla. Blogger Says Anti-SLAPP Law Allows Immediate Appeal By Carolina Bolado A blogger trying to fend off a defamation suit from a local public official has urged the Florida Supreme Court to let him appeal a nonfinal order denying his bid to end the suit, arguing that the state's anti-SLAPP law allows for interlocutory appeals. Brief attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1700642?nl_pk=a931e1a0-e840-4de…

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Scammed Companies Can Take Disbarred Atty's Court Funds
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Scammed Companies Can Take Disbarred Atty's Court Funds By Emily Sawicki Dialysis giant DaVita and others scammed by a disbarred Colorado attorney may garnish nearly $175,000 of the ex-lawyer's money, a state judge has determined, finding that a criminal court had released the funds weeks after the same judge paused proceedings pending release of the cash. Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1699996?nl_pk=a931e1a0-e840-4de…

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Malpractice Jury Should Be Shown Metal Bar, NC Court Told
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Malpractice Jury Should Be Shown Metal Bar, NC Court Told By Travis Bland A metal bar that is key to a North Carolina's man defense in a battery suit should be shown to the jury in the man's malpractice case alleging his lawyer's work on the matter suffered because he was too busy campaigning for a state judgeship, the man's current attorney told a federal judge Monday. Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1700381?nl_pk=a931e1a0-e840-4de…

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Apple Gets Epic Loss Paused As 9th Circ. Judge Rips Appeal
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Apple Gets Epic Loss Paused As 9th Circ. Judge Rips Appeal By Dorothy Atkins The Ninth Circuit on Monday paused an order in Epic Games' favor that found Apple's anti-steering provisions in its app store violate antitrust laws to await the outcome of Apple's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, but one judge slammed Apple's arguments, saying they "cannot withstand even the slightest scrutiny." Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1700711?nl_pk=2063be2d-1a29-43b…

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Cos. Need To Pay Attention To NY's LLC Transparency Act
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Cos. Need To Pay Attention To NY's LLC Transparency Act Though businesses are already gearing up to comply with the new requirements of the federal Corporate Transparency Act, they must also keep an eye on New York state's pending LLC Transparency Act, which largely tracks the CTA but contains notable differences, say attorneys at Pillsbury. Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1700059?nl_pk=99a2a594-20ad-4b2f-a2…

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Court Won't Toss Monopolization Case Over Securities IDs
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Court Won't Toss Monopolization Case Over Securities IDs By Matthew Perlman A New York federal court cut several claims against S&P Global and others in a suit over a long-used identification system for financial instruments but refused to toss allegations that they monopolized the market. Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1700413?nl_pk=99a2a594-20ad-4b2f-a2…

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Inside NY's Secret, Politically Driven Judicial Security System
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Inside NY's Secret, Politically Driven Judicial Security System By Frank G. Runyeon When Janet DiFiore took office in 2016 as New York's chief judge and marshaled the largest protection detail in the history of the state court system to chauffeur her, security sometimes took a back seat to other concerns. Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1699228?nl_pk=bd316618-088c-4274-ab…

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OpenSea Verdict Backs DOJ Digital Asset Insider Trading View
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

OpenSea Verdict Backs DOJ Digital Asset Insider Trading View The recent conviction of a former OpenSea manager in New York federal court confirms, for the first time, that the U.S. Department of Justice can prosecute insider trading activity involving digital assets under the traditional fraud statutes, irrespective of how an asset is legally classified, say attorneys at BakerHostetler. Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1699581?nl_pk=bd316618-088c-4274-ab…

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Block Inc. Sues Visa, Mastercard Over Interchange Fees
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Block Inc. Sues Visa, Mastercard Over Interchange Fees By Katryna Perera Visa and Mastercard have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of charging the maker of the popular Square card reader with artificially high interchange fees as a result of their concerted anti-competitive practices. Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites » https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1700545?nl_pk=bd316618-088c-4274-ab…

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Victory has a thousand Vaders
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

CypherPunk 2023 - who could have producted! https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/binary-news-network/flux-s-groundbre… Failure is an Organa file Cypherpunk ethics is captured by the normative cypherpunk slogan “privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful.” Cypherpunk epistemology is a form of data activism that calls for a hands-on response to the datafication of surveillance and relies upon both pro-active (transparency) and re-active (privacy) strategies. While the cypherpunks are famously concerned about privacy, because cypherpunk philosophy also calls for “transparency for the powerful,” cypherpunks have practiced a distinctive form of cypherpunk sousveillance. By understanding that cypherpunk theory and practice . . . " cypherpunks were a highly educated, mostly libertarian community permeated by aspects of anarchism which arose from a societal disaffiliation inherited from the counterculture. This article further argues that the cypherpunks were also influenced by the hacker ethic and dystopian science fiction. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1935547

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