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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
Small claims only provides monetary relief, you can't get equitable relief. How exactly are you going to calculate your monetary damages? And quite frankly, why would Google reinstate your account over losing a maximum of potentially $
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
We need to push back on this nonsense in journalism in which journalists don't include a link to the opinion when writing an article describing that opinion. There is not enough information included in the article to meaningfully comme
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
The sad truth is that the United States has a severe access to justice problem. Most people don't know which regulator to contact, and the process requires a certain amount of time, effort, and knowledge that's out of reach of mos
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
This is the same file as the original submission. But can you explain how this email got its way to the House Judiciary Committee?
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Ask HN: Notice of Class Action Settlement Re Google Plus
12 points by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago|9 comments
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
A tiny amount of "police" text isn't worth much of anything. There is absolutely no defensible reason to hide the agency patch and badge number of every individual officer on the ground. There is absolutely no defensible reas
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
This isn't about whether or not they get arrested. This is about certain ground rules and principles that the government must always uphold, even against unprincipled opponents. Federal law enforcement officers, dressed in camo gear an
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
Have you contacted your member of Congress? They have constituent services that help with these kinds of things. You could also submit a Privacy Act correction request.
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
And it will be interesting to see if it will be put on the agenda by Chairman Nadler. But Pelosi's omnibus bill has a far weaker proposal in that it only eliminates QI for police officers.
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
This reminds me of the time when a Pennsylvania District Attorney argued before the State Supreme Court that opening the settings app didn't qualify as a search because it's not an app like the messages app. Thank goodness that ar
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
File a complaint with the FCC. https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?tic... Select "privacy" as the complaint category.
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
You probably meant FTC, the Federal Trade Commission. But in this case the complaint probably ought to go to the CFPB.
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
There are multiple prongs to the tort and all of them have to be fulfilled. A reasonable jury cannot conclude that leaking the memo to the media is outrageous conduct beyond all the standards of civilised society. It no longer matters if th
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
> It's especially telling that you, and people who defend him, attribute zero fault whatsoever to the person who actually wrote the memo. 'Zero' and 'whatsoever' are simply wrong. It's a strawman. > The &
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
There is no way a lawsuit like this would survive a motion to dismiss. Intentional infliction of emotional distress requires an underlying wrongdoing, among other things. There was no legal wrong committed when the document was leaked.
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
I can't tell if you're trying to say that a policy from management is beyond all reproach or if "these things just happen in the real world". Either way, the former shouldn't be true and the latter should be wrong.
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
None federally. In California, "political activities" are a protected class. The extent to which activities and views overlap is almost certainly a messy question of law that I'm not qualified to answer with respect to Damore
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
You say this as though it's plainly obvious that it wasn't. The truth is that it depends, and not on whether or not we think his political views are ridiculous. The causes of action in the lawsuit were unlawful termination on acco
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
You can't address the business model if you can't explain how you would change how an individual case plays out. The standard of evidence in civil court is "the preponderance of the evidence". Would you propose changing
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by LurkersWillLurk 6y ago
Can you describe this door? The Pennsylvania AG is pretty good, although probably not as technically inclined.
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The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?(nytimes.com)
14 points by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago|2 comments
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
Many states in the US have laws that specifically exempt colleges and universities from the majority of tenancy protections that regular landlords must abide by.
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "what happened with the US Attorneys"?
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
To build on this, I don't think the US government sees NSO Group the same way they see foreign hackers. Federal law enforcement and the intelligence community probably see the defensive losses as an acceptable casualty if it means reap
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
While I agree with the general premise that the police pay more attention to property crime affecting businesses rather than people, most people that own bikes don't 1) paint them in very identifiable colors, and 2) have GPS trackers b
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
Calling the "Facebook police unit" - a group of city police officers assigned to the Facebook campus - the "privatization of the law" is quite overblown, especially when compared to the actual private police departments
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
Here's the Amended Complaint: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.241666...
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
Why should they? If you increase the supply of housing, it puts downward pressure on rent. Am I missing something?
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
It's also using passive voice. Consider: "We will terminate your verified status for adding links to one of our competitor's sites."
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
I mean, I agree. I'm not in favor of "acceptable casualties", I'm just saying that the mainstream opinion is changing.

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