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KProfsBlog

Two Florida attorneys break their residential lease and leave the house in disrepair. Nine years later, appeals court restores jury verdict for landlord. Changing locks and staging house held not inconsistent with “standing by and doing nothing.”

#law #contracts #litigation #Landlord/Tenant #Florida

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Matthew Rimmer

Groundbreaking climate ruling against RWE: Major emitters can be held liable for climate risks germanwatch.org/en/93166
Saúl Luciano Lliuya v. RWE: Judges at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm have ruled that German civil law can be used to hold major emitters liable for the effects of climate change — a decision that extends protection to those impacted worldwide. #climate #litigation #Germany #Peru

www.germanwatch.orgGroundbreaking climate ruling against RWE: Major emitters can be held liable for climate risksThe Higher Regional Court of Hamm made legal history today. In a ruling on the civil case brought by Peruvian mountain guide Saúl Luciano Lliuya against German energy giant RWE, the judges confirmed that major emitters can be held liable under German civil law for the consequences of climate change.
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KProfsBlog

Court dismisses class action against Amazon Prime alleging breach of contract for making us pay to watch ad-free. Following precedent, the Court finds the change a permissible change in services rather than an impermissible price increase. 🤬

#law #contracts #TermsOfService #Amazon #Prime #Streaming #ClassActions #Litigation

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beSpacific

#Judges Keep Calling #Trump’s Actions #Illegal, but Undoing Them Is Hard. #Courts are serving as a rare check on President #Trump, but #judicial orders to unwind his actions can be easier said than done. #Trump and his team have acted #lawlessly in egregious ways, #judges emphatically said — the real-world consequences may vary. And the slow pace of #litigation means the #judiciary is often many steps behind and in some cases, unable to catch up. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/poli #DemocracyPhotography

President Trump and his team acted lawlessly in egregious ways, judges have said, but the real-world consequences of their findings may vary.
The New York Times · Judges Keep Calling Trump’s Actions Illegal, but Undoing Them Is HardBy Charlie Savage
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Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:

B.C. health authority faces class-action lawsuit over 2009 data breach

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Let's see... they didn't prevent breaches, they didn't detect breaches on their own, and they didn't notify 20,000 employees timely or provide any mitigation services timely or at all.

But can plaintiffs prevail?

#databreach #infosec #cybersecurity #incidentmanagement #litigation

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LilMikeSF

Upscale #EastBay suburban hamlet must pay $120,000 to settle case brought by a persistent projectionist , "#solarpunk novelist" and Mastodon user @AEMarling arrested in 2021 for being an alleged "public nuisance" after beaming portable political imagery onto #SanRamon #CityHall.

Marling is perhaps best known for his caustic commentary targeting petty #Twitler #CEO #MelonHusk with viral projection takes including “Space Karen,” “Lawless Oligarch” "Mediocre Manchild" and other critiques on the #American oligarch's corporate #SocialMedia HQ outpost along #MarketSt in #SanFrancisco.

Originally after being cited, Marling's attorney assumed the small suburban city would return his projection equipment and drop charges, but angry officials retained "outside counsel and private attorney to act as prosecutor, and they prosecuted this to the bitter end” which prompted the case to continue for years as Marling counter sued the bedroom community in #federalcourt for alleged violations of his #FirstAmendment and #FourthAmendment rights, as well as false arrest, among other legal claims that personally named city officials and #police personnel who pursued the charges. Named in Marling's suit were #CityAttorney Martin Lysons, city manager Joe Gorton, ex top cop Craig Stevens, current #PoliceChief Denton Carlson, Sgt. Michael Pistello, Officer Rick Gonzalez, pvt attorney Lance Bayer and city employee Karen McHenry-Smith. The first alleged criminal conspiratorial act by the local govt occured when petty police lied in their report about the spot where Marling even had the projector, claiming it was propped up against a traffic light on a sidewalk rather than placed in a landscaping bed.

From there, and even after an acquittal in an actual local court for the bogus citation, Marling filed a complaint alleging numerous civil violations, including of the First, Fourth and 14th amendments and the #CivilRights Act, as well as false imprisonment.

Marling said he hopes the legal #settlement discourages crackdowns on #activism in the future.

“For the police to try to detain in this fashion is illegal — I wasn’t violating any laws,” Marling said. “I guess you could say it was a slap on the wrist to try to encourage cities to not do this.” We only got to this point where the city finally "settled" and agreed to pay #legal costs and admit no #wrongdoing after years of #litigation.

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eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/13/vi #CopWatch #FreeSpeech

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