#criminal lawsuit

[constantly-deactivated]

The 9th Circuit Court Rules mRNA COVID-19 Shots Not Vaccines.

Alex Jones: "The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the COVID-19 mRNA jabs do not qualify as vaccines, a decision that could expose pharmaceutical companies who manufactured them to future liability lawsuits..." 🤔

[lawbyrhys]

Lawyer Breaks Down The Imane Khelif Lawsuit

I am an American attorney, and even though this lawsuit was filed in French court, I can still break it down and give my thoughts on the situation.

Let's get into this high-profile criminal lawsuit.

Algerian boxer and Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif has filed a criminal complaint in French court last Friday, August 9, alleging that "acts of aggravated cyber harassment” have been perpetrated against the star athlete since her appearance at the Summer 2024 Olympics in Paris.

The lawsuit was filed with the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office and names X as the defendant; X as it refers to unknown persons in French law. Doing so "ensure[s] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people," including those who may have shared hateful messages under pseudonyms and screen names.

To discuss another X in this case, though, Elon Musk finds himself named in the lawsuit, as does author J.K. Rowling. The pair have found themselves at the center of the controversy, having taken to their respective social media channels to post their takes and stoke the flames surrounding Khelif. "J. K. Rowling and Elon Musk are named in the lawsuit, among others,' says Nabil Boudi, Khelif's Paris-based attorney.

What about former president and 34-time convicted felon Donald Trump, though? He's shared his own remarks on the Algerian boxer. "Trump tweeted, so whether or not he is named in our lawsuit, he will inevitably be looked into as part of the prosecution."

Khelif's time at the 2024 Olympics—despite winning gold in women's 66kg boxing—has been overshadowed by speculation regarding her gender. It's important to note that Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman; she was born female and does not identify as transgender or intersex. The International Olympic Committee backs these facts, too, stating that "scientifically, this is not a man fighting a woman." Yet, the vitriol continues; the internet at large has been having a field day with it.

Adding to the flames are Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling. Musk, who is the owner of the X site, shared a post from swimmer Riley Gaines that read, "Men don't belong in women's sports," approving the message with one of his own: "Absolutely." Additionally, Rowling posted an image of Khelif and Italian boxer Angela Carini mid-fight with a caption accusing Khelif of "[being a man who was] enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head." She posted this to her 14.2M X followers. Donald Trump piped in—as he's known to do—with his own caption for the image of Khelif and Carini, with a vow of sorts: "I will keep men out of women’s sports!" A campaign promise, maybe?

Interestingly, even Logan Paul had something to say. As if Paul isn't busy enough with his frivalous defamation lawsuit against fellow creator Coffeezilla, he added to the mix with his denouncement of Khelif's triumph over Carini:

"This is the purest form of evil unfolding right before our eyes. A man was allowed to beat up a woman on a global stage, crushing her life’s dream while fighting for her deceased father. This delusion must end." Paul later deleted this post, though, admitting that, "might be guilty of spreading misinformation." He doesn't want yet another lawsuit on his hands—that's my take.

Khelif's attorney isn't buying any of the bullshit, though, and nobody's apology will absolve them of their legal liability in his eyes. "That lawsuit is filed and the facts remain."

About the intentions of the lawsuit, Boudi said:

"What we’re asking is that the prosecution investigates not only these people but whoever it feels necessary. If the case goes to court, they will stand trial." As it pertains to those on US soil, he adds that "[the lawsuit] could target personalities overseas. The prosecutor’s office for combating online hate speech has the possibility to make requests for mutual legal assistance with other countries." Boudi cites an agreement between the French and American equivalent office per the online hate speech.

The lawsuit is intended to prosecute individual social media users and not the platforms themselves. As Boudi states, "It’s the responsibility of lawmakers to issue sanctions to platforms, not ours," going on to note the severity of similar cyber harassment cases, and that in some cases, "there are prison sentences."

Judicial systems worldwide have begun to take cyber crimes like these more serious in recent years. As use, popularity, and reliance on the internet grow, so must the laws and protections.

Khelif's coach, Pedro Diaz, has even weighed in on all the controversy surrounding his champion athlete. He states the hate has "incredibly affected her and everyone around her."

What do you think of this case? Let me know!

[giantkillerjack]

If media has taught me one thing, it's to never own a paperweight capable of causing traumatic brain injury.

My dad owned a heavy glass paperweight once that tapered into a sturdy sharp point on the top, and the fact that no one was murdered with this at all before his retirement from the lawfirm is the surest proof I have that this reality is in fact not fiction.

[askaceattorney]

Dear J'Luc K. Star,

With fools, you cannot predict them.

I believe Ms. Miney was likely threatened by her former boss to sue her. I've been involved in enough cases to know his type. He would threaten the family of his dead employees if it meant saving his precious reputation.

Had Ms. Miney contacted a lawyer early on instead of pulling this nonsense, she could have put in a counterclaim of his abusive treatment toward her sister and won flawlessly.

- Franziska von Karma

[ausetkmt]

SACRAMENTO — Days after filing a lawsuit alleging retaliation by a state prison gang investigator and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, an incarcerated Richmond native suffered multiple broken bones and other injuries at the hands of a corrections officer, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the incident.

Ronald Dean Yandell, 62, filed a handwritten suit last week, accusing a DEA agent and a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation investigator of retaliating against him for his work organizing a prisoner-led hunger strike against solitary confinement, and a peace agreement between rival groups in prison.

On Monday, Yandell was reportedly knocked down while handcuffed and suffered a broken jaw, a burst eardrum, multiple missing teeth, and fractured vertebrae, according to an attorney and another prisoner whose cell is down the hall from Yandell’s.

Yandell’s lawsuit names two defendants, DEA Special Agent Brian Nehring and CDCR gang investigator Cory Perryman. His suit refers to an email by Nehring that referenced Yandell’s work on the hunger strike and added, “I want to crush him so bad my teeth hurt.” Yandell accuses Perryman and others in CDCR with falsifying records to create conflicts between prisoners, and of documenting a misleading account of a conversation between Yandell, another prisoner and Perryman years ago.

Yandell was convicted last April of multiple counts of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder, as part of a massive investigation into the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Prosecutors listed Yandell as one seat on the three-man commission that runs the gang. He’s expected to receive a federal life sentence later this year and is already serving life in state court for murder and manslaughter convictions over a 2001 double homicide in El Sobrante.

Reached by phone on Tuesday, Yandell’s lawyer, Steven Kalar said he believed Monday’s incident was retaliatory, and noted Yandell still has an active lawsuit over a violent cell extraction that occurred months before he was charged in the racketeering case, in 2019.

“I’m deeply concerned at this episode, particularly given the context of one active suit against CDCR by Mr. Yandell involving a cell extraction, and another suit against agents Nehring and Perryman,” Kalar said, adding that he plans to meet with his client this week and learn more.

Prison officials on Wednesday declined to comment on the suit or the incident on Monday.

But federal prosecutors have defended the investigators’ work, writing in legal motions that Nehring was eager to investigate Yandell because he’s a known gang leader who was selling drugs and arranging murders from prison. A federal judge is still mulling a motion for a new trial by Yandell’s defense team, which accuses the federal government of vindictive prosecution.

Other leaders of the hunger strike and peace treaty have made similar allegations. In Oakland, where four alleged Nuestra Familia leaders are on trial, defense attorneys have accused the federal government of targeting their clients for political reasons. The controversy has two contradictory sides; on one hand, prison gang leaders were able to use their influence to organize a massive prisoner-led political movement and hunger strike which included a lawsuit that restricted the use of solitary confinement in California prisons. But also, prison gang leaders who were released from solitary confinement were then able to use their power and influence to commit crimes and arrange violence by using contraband phones and access to general population yards.

Kalar said he saw parallels between Monday’s incident involving Yandell and two others at the Sacramento prison: The death of an inmate that led to civil rights charges against prison guards, and the murder of a man named Yogi Pinell, a Black Guerrilla Family member who was stabbed to death by two Aryan Brotherhood members in 2015.

Ironically, Yandell was convicted of murder in connection with Pinell’s death, under the theory he helped arrange it. Kalar’s defense was that prison officials knowingly placed Pinell in harm’s way and that Yandell was not involved in the plot to kill Pinell.

Yandell’s suit seeks unspecified monetary damages and for prison officials to return him to a general population yard and release him from more restrictive conditions in administrative segregation.

[miawashere]

new york times v. united states

a required case for ap gov, this case is about when president nixon and his administration tried to stop the new york times from publishing news about pentagon papers that were leaked. the leaked documents had information about what was going on vietnam. the court ruled that this was a violation of the first amendment, therefore unconstitutional. this case is so important in my opinion because it shows that the president is not an all powerful being, that the president still had consequences. that the people have a right to know whats going on in the world.

[nando161mando]

Who can spot the REAL criminals in this exchange..?

[athenafire]

//@risingsouls@beforecreation Come pick up your barnacle please. They're making a mess of my inbox, and I don't run latchkey for ill-behaved louts.

//What's really sad about this anon is how genuinely boring they are compared to my last crazy anon. That one got creative by psychoanalyzing my posts to try and find things that would upset specifically me. They were wrong but it was at least an interesting effort.

[bloghrexach]

😳 … May 9th, waking up to this!! WTF? — someone please tell me why IsraHell has such ‘power’? —The UAE are Arabs like the Palestinians, right?

By: Mohammed Faiz, all expressions are his own, from LinkedIn …

“UAE Offered South Africa investments worth billions to drop genocide case against lsrael.

Honestly the world has gone mad!” … 😳

#FreePalestine … @hrexach

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[ladyelainehilfur]

Praying for Ticketmaster and Live Nation's downfall ✨

[tomorrowusa]

SO MUCH LOSING!

When Donald Trump isn’t busy dining with Nazis or plotting to terminate the US Constitution, he gets to watch his legal team suffer setbacks.

In recent months, former President Donald Trump and his allies have suffered a string of defeats in court as they’ve tried to resist or impede criminal investigations into his conduct.  

The latest example was Trump’s unsuccessful bid to block testimony from his former White House lawyers before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election subversion. The attorneys, Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin, appeared before the DC-based grand jury on Friday. 

The night before, a federal appeals court tossed out the special master review that was holding up parts of the criminal probe into government documents that were taken from his White House to Mar-a-Lago.  

The Trump-world losing streak reflects the deference that courts tend to give to criminal investigations – particularly when the probes that have not yet brought charges. Courts have shown far less tolerance for legal delay tactics in cases concerning criminal probes. 

His setbacks are at both the state and federal level.

Many of the disputes over the subpoenas are playing out in state courts across the country based on where the witnesses in question now reside. Those courts often made the determination that the witnesses are “necessary and material” to the investigation, while pointing to the approvals the subpoenas got from the judge in Georgia who is supervising the Fulton County grand jury. 

Trump has tried to claim that being a former president gives him special standing. The courts aren’t buying that.

As if Trump were not in enough trouble, a New York law just went into effect which permits adult victims of previous sexual abuse to sue their attackers.

E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation as lookback window for adult sex abuse survivors’ suits opens in New York

With this sort of luck, Trump may be wondering if his only way out is to defect to Russia or North Korea.

[allthedavesallofthem]

It is just astonishing how many layers of the software development and release process had to fail in order for a catastrophe of this magnitude to take place, especially on something as sensitive and critically important as cybersecurity software.

Like, okay, some software engineer wrote some buggy code. Who cares, coders write bugs all of the time, ideally it'll get caught in code review. So then code review misses the bug (well, assuming they even did a code review), but it's still not a big deal yet, shit happens and people miss stuff. Pre-production test suites, either manual or automated (ideally a little of both) are the next line of defense before production deployment.

And then pre-production testing fails to catch it. For a bug this massive - literally every computer it touches just immediately crashes - this seems to indicate that their pre-prod testing protocols were either:

A: woefully insufficient and completely failed to validate functionality in anything even remotely resembling production conditions,

B: deliberately circumvented to push out a release quickly, or

C: just didn't exist at all. Tbh, I think this one is the least likely for CrowdStrike, as we probably would've heard whistleblowing about it by now, but at this point, who knows?

All three of these possibilities are extremely alarming, each for their own separate reasons. In any case, the bug slips through to production and things are now Officially Pretty Bad. Real customers are going to be impacted and probably quite upset. The severity of the bug and how difficult it is to resolve in many cases does not help matters.

Well, all is not totally lost! Updates to critical pieces of software such as this would usually go out in staggered waves. A small percentage of customers, say, anywhere from 1-10%, would receive the update first, then the situation would be monitored for a bit to make sure everything looked normal, then the deployment would be scaled out to all machines. Surely a bug of this severity would be picked up in the first wave, then the further deployments would be called off and damage control could begin. You've ruined the days of a handful of IT departments, but at least-

Oh. There was no staggered deployment. This went out to the entire world all at once. And it's an automatic update that starts without user intervention. Every layer of incompetence and negligence all the way up the chain has now added up to create one of the biggest software engineering catastrophes in history.

And they released it on a Friday.

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

[wet-paws]

"The elections have tightened across the United States, and anti-trans ads have become a major part of the 2024 campaign cycle. As such, the risk has substantially raised for nationwide laws targeting transgender people in the coming years for both youth and adults."

" For states, the state of Texas has been upgraded to Do Not Travel, only the second state to receive such a recommendation. This comes as Odessa, Texas, becomes the first city in the nation to pass a $10,000 bounty on transgender people inside of bathrooms."

[lighterr]

亿万富翁赢了官司，死了全家（几乎）

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