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March 27, 2026 This is one of the first cases where a court has squarely confronted the use of national security supply chain authority against a domestic AI company and treated it as a likely First Amendment and APA problem, […]

April 1, 2026 In the South Bay right now a croissant is not just a pastry. It is a piece of intellectual property being fought over in federal court, in a case that feels lighter than my usual topics only […]

May 4, 2026 Airlines rarely fail because of a single shock. They fail when a thin margin model runs out of room to absorb risk. Spirit Airlines’ wind‑down in 2026 is ultimately a simple story: a financially stressed ultra low […]

March 26, 2026 For twenty five years, copyright owners have tried to turn internet service providers into copyright police. The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment re centers the limits on secondary liability in […]

March 27, 2026 You cannot sue someone into liking you, and you cannot turn reputational harm into an antitrust injury. That is the blunt lesson from Judge Jane Boyle of the Northern District of Texas in X Corp v. World […]

March 25, 2026 Subscribe now Share Leave a comment This is the closest the United States has come to an EU style comprehensive AI law, but built around liability, enforcement, and risk allocation rather than a Brussels style licensing bureaucracy. […]

March 26, 2026 For years, Section 230 functioned as a near case‑ending doctrine at the motion‑to‑dismiss stage. This week, back‑to‑back verdicts in New Mexico and California showed how juries can still reach social‑media defendants by targeting product decisions, safety promises, […]

March 26, 2026 If an AI system could talk in your voice, lift your content, hallucinate facts, and then slap your trademark on the answer, what would you do. That is no longer a hypothetical; it is the reality behind […]

March 20, 2026 BLUF The Afroman “Lemon Pound Cake” case shows that in Ohio, using real police raid footage from your own home in a satirical, monetized music video is protected speech, while on duty officers face serious First Amendment […]

March 11, 2026 BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): For decades, high resource parties could weaponize “lawfare” – the strategic use of legal process itself as pressure, not just a forum for resolving disputes – by driving up costs with massive […]