Meta thinks that if you steal tens of millions of books, the value of each individual theft rounds down to zero. Is that the law? (No.) Also, the Qatari Royal family wants to give Donald Trump a half-billion-dollar plane and make the US government pay to renovate it. Turns out, that hasn’t been legal for more than two hundred years, but who’s counting? Oh, and the administration arrested the Mayor of Newark. Rumeysa Ozturk is free, though, so it’s not all bad news.
Links:
Ozturk v. Hyde
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69845539/ozturk-v-hyde/
W.M.M. v. Trump (Alien Enemies Act case in Northern District of Texas)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69898198/wmm-v-donald-j-trump
US v. Baraka
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70242142/united-states-v-baraka/
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