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Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was killed, a Las Vegas jury convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder—legal responsibility without settling who pulled the trigger.
Inspired by bbc.com · BBC News
After reading the measure, Proposition 40 is a one-time billionaire wealth tax plus a broad billion-dollar net-assets declaration—not the two cartoons in the commercials.
Inspired by oag.ca.gov · California Attorney General
A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
Inspired by courthousenews.com · Courthouse News
California lawmakers unanimously passed an amendment exempting most open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act—a needed correction to a law written for platforms, not forks.
Inspired by tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware
A federal judge ruled the Anthropic blacklisting unlawful. The harder question is what “unlawful” means when consequences arrive before the courts.
Inspired by nytimes.com · The New York Times
The New York Times and Slashdot on Samuel Tunick—GrapheneOS duress at CBP Atlanta, a § 2232(a) felony, and whether using a privacy tool during a disputed search can itself become the crime.
Inspired by m.slashdot.org · Slashdot
Curious Quail’s comparison of Aaron Swartz’s JSTOR prosecution with Meta torrenting LibGen and Anna’s Archive for Llama—the cases are not legally identical; the proportionality is hard to ignore.
Inspired by blog.curiousquail.com · Curious Quail
