Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, January 13th, 2025 [3] Appeals Court: Yes, Suing The Family Of People You Killed In A Car Crash For Defamation Is A SLAPP Suit from the anti-slapp-ftw dept by Mike Masnick - January 13th @ 8:01pm This one is from a couple months ago, but I finally had a chance to catch up on some older stories. In late 2023 ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Thursday, January 9th, 2025 [3] Court Denies Molson Coors’ Appeal To Lower Damages, Get New Trial In Stone Brewing Ruling from the stonewalled dept by Dark Helmet - January 9th @ 8:06pm Well, I’ll give the Ninth Circuit this much: at least when the court is wrong, it is wrong fast. It was just a few weeks back that ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Friday, January 10th, 2025 [3] Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas from the growth-for-growth's-sake dept by Karl Bode - January 10th @ 7:39pm Early last year, streaming company Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit against [4]Disney, Fox, ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 [3] Kentucky Police Kill Innocent Man While Serving Warrant At Wrong Address from the wrong-place,-wrong-time-still-means-'inside-your-own-home' dept by Tim Cushing - January 8th @ 7:43pm Is it too much to ask for cops [4]to be better? When other government employees get the addre ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, January 6th, 2025 [3] Another Court Says A Drug Dog Sniff Is A Search, Requires Probable Cause To Justify It from the not-all-that-great-if-they-can't-be-used-to-bypass-the-Constitution dept by Tim Cushing - January 6th @ 8:07pm They’re going to have to change the nickname. For years, cops have referr ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 [3] DOJ Secures Agreement With Antioch, CA PD That’s Supposed To Make Its Racist Cops Less Racist from the one-powerpoint-presentation-away-from-salvation dept by Tim Cushing - January 7th @ 8:29pm Well, there are two possibilities here. Either I’ve been doing this for too long or all cop ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Sunday, January 5th, 2025 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the as-you-say dept by Leigh Beadon - January 5th @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is a simple anonymous comment about the fact that [4]41% of Americans now live under age verification l ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, January 4th, 2025 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: December 29th – January 4th from the that-was-that dept by Leigh Beadon - January 4th @ 12:30pm Five Years Ago This week at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, a new study shed light on [4]just how racially biased facial recognition algorithms ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 [3] Oklahoma AG Steps Up To Ensure Cop Who Broke 71-Year-Old Man’s Neck Won’t Face Criminal Charges from the when-not-even-a-wrist-slap-is-considered-acceptable dept by Tim Cushing - January 2nd @ 8:09pm On October 27, 2024, Oklahoma City police officer Joseph Gibson [4]violently assa ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, January 4th, 2025 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: December 29th – January 4th from the that-was-that dept by Leigh Beadon - January 4th @ 12:30pm Five Years Ago This week at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, a new study shed light on [4]just how racially biased facial recognition algorithms ...Continue Reading