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Epic Accuses Apple Of Stalling Antitrust Doc Production
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Epic Accuses Apple Of Stalling Antitrust Doc Production <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1844008?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> By Dorothy Atkins Epic Games accused Apple Inc. at a hearing Wednesday of dragging its feet on producing internal documents that a California federal judge recently ordered the tech giant to hand over to help decide if Apple complied with her ban on App Store anti-steering rules. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1844008?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1844008?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…>

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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1843185?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1843185?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1843185?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…>

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Netflix Settles Central Park 5 Defamation Case Ahead Of Trial
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Netflix Settles Central Park 5 Defamation Case Ahead Of Trial <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1844227?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Elliot Weld Netflix has settled a lawsuit alleging one of its docuseries defamed a Manhattan prosecutor who was involved in the Central Park Five case, agreeing Tuesday to donate $1 million to a nonprofit dedicated to preventing wrongful convictions. Letter attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1844227?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1844227?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Billionaire's 'Naive' Stock-Trading Pilot Asks For No Prison
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Billionaire's 'Naive' Stock-Trading Pilot Asks For No Prison <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1844478?nl_pk=a94fc…> By Elliot Weld A private pilot for U.K. billionaire Joe Lewis is asking for no prison time after pleading guilty to insider trading on stock tips provided by his boss, arguing that he has otherwise lived a law-abiding life and is less culpable than many white-collar defendants who've come through the Manhattan federal court. 1 document attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1844478?nl_pk=a94fc…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1844478?nl_pk=a94fc…>

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Scrutinize Gag Order On Trump's Twitter DMs, X Tells Justices
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Scrutinize Gag Order On Trump's Twitter DMs, X Tells Justices <https://www.law360.com/cybersecurity-privacy/articles/1844735?nl_pk=3dfd2fd…> By Ali Sullivan X Corp. is pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to review a court order allowing special counsel Jack Smith to obtain messages from Donald Trump's account on the social media platform while barring X from alerting the former president beforehand. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/cybersecurity-privacy/articles/1844735?nl_pk=3dfd2fd…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/cybersecurity-privacy/articles/1844735?nl_pk=3dfd2fd…>

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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1842853?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1842853?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1842853?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…>

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Synchrony Charges Were Unlawful 'Veteran Penalty,' Suit Says
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Synchrony Charges Were Unlawful 'Veteran Penalty,' Suit Says <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1844465?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By Sydney Price Synchrony Bank was hit with a proposed class action accusing it of promoting a misleading 0% interest rate for veterans and failing to disclose that the bank applies retroactive high interest rates on service members' outstanding balances when they leave duty. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1844465?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1844465?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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Atty Retaliation Claim 'Self-Serving Spin,' Major Lindsey Says
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Atty Retaliation Claim 'Self-Serving Spin,' Major Lindsey Says <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1844195?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> By Emily Sawicki Legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa has asked a Maryland federal judge to toss an associate's claim that she was retaliated against after suing Troutman Pepper for racial discrimination, arguing that the absence of a contract between the parties dooms her claim, and that she failed to show that the recruiter "acted with a retaliatory motive or intent." Memorandum attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1844195?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1844195?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…>

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Directed Energy Neuroweapons
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Somewhat interesting pdf attempting to summarize public neuroweaponry. Unsure when published, might look prior decade. Towards the end it also describes modern trolling techniques we now see daily, which were apparently researched at U Cambridge by GCHQ in 2011. Some things not clarified with technical experience, for example the "invisibility cloak" was for radar, not visible light.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Making Enemies in All the Right Places
by Gunnar Larson 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/06/the-consumer-financial-protection-bu… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 6, 2024 ~ Fresh off a big win at the U.S. Supreme Court on May 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is wasting no time in its heady pursuit of financial bad actors preying on the little guy. On Monday, the federal agency announced it was creating a public registry to help law enforcement, investors and the public check the history of repeat offenders in finance. The CFPB already offers consumers who have been victimized by a financial firm the ability to file a public complaint with the CFPB. The agency then quickly demands a written response from the alleged wrongdoer. Repeat offenders dislike the fact that these complaints go into a permanent database at the CFPB, which can be mined by the public, reporters, attorneys and prosecutors looking for patterns of fraud. (For how Wall Street On Parade put that complaint database to good use, read our report: The Apple Credit Card Provided through Goldman Sachs Has Created a Living Hell According to Consumer Complaints.) On Tuesday, the CFPB released a circular letting financial firms know that if they sneak deceptive and/or illegal terms into the fine print of their consumer contracts they risk getting an enforcement action from the CFPB. One example cited was the Truth in Lending Act, which prohibits fine print in mortgage contracts that purport to force homeowners into mandatory arbitration (claiming to remove the option of a court proceeding) to deal with a mortgage dispute. The Supreme Court case in May, where the independent funding of the CFPB was under attack by multiple forces hostile to a gutsy federal consumer protection agency, was just the latest in a long series of attempts to kill the CFPB since its creation under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010. Back in 2015, a political front group called the American Action Network launched a $500,000 ad campaign against the CFPB during the Republican presidential debate. The campaign outrageously attempted to cast the CFPB as a communist organization. One ad featured giant banners hanging from a front wall with the faces of then CFPB Director, Richard Cordray, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, who had been instrumental in creating the agency — in a nod to Soviet dictator images. The advertisement was a masterpiece of misinformation, overtly suggesting that the job of the CFPB is to deny car loans and mortgages to regular folks seeking credit. The agency, in fact, has zero involvement with approving credit applications. Its job is to root out and punish financial institutions that are ripping off customers. Just four months before the ad campaign was unveiled, the recidivist bank, Citigroup, was ordered by the CFPB to reimburse an estimated $700 million to 7 million of its credit card customers for deceptive marketing and billing for services that were never provided. The mysterious American Action Network (AAN) behind the deceptive ad campaign is a dark money group that has battled at the Federal Election Commission and in federal courts to keep its dark money donors a secret from the American people. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been fighting to open AAN’s dark secrets to some public sunshine for more than a decade. In a brief filed with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on July 28, 2023, CREW wrote as follows: “Over the past thirteen years, AAN has spent more than $150 million to influence federal elections while depriving Americans of knowledge about ‘[t]he sources of [their] candidate’s financial support’… AAN’s patronage, which only grows, has placed benefitted officials ‘in the pocket’ of the ‘moneyed interests’ that they know fund AAN while evading public accountability.”

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