#criminal lawsuit

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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..." 🤔

[onlytiktoks]

So...

these are all bribes... being called settlements?

[thashining]

[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

[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..?

[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.

[shinyloverjellyfish]

So funny story for all the other Canadians (in my province) out there: we're not guaranteed a lawyer! Did not realize that!!

You are entitled to 30 minutes of free legal aid. You may receive a public defender if you are facing a jury trial, but not for offenses with less than 3 years prison time. The public defender is not free, regardless of income. You will be required to pay some amount unless you have $0 in your bank account and no other assets. Even then, if I'm understanding correctly, you will still be billed. There is Legal Aid Coverage, but it doesn't cover the entire bill. It also only applies if you've been charged with a federal indictable offense.

That's right, the one thing Americans do better is the right to a free lawyer. Jesus Christ almighty.

[onlytiktoks]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/26/trump-administration-constitution-court-orders-judges/

[teg-report]

SHOCKING: "Like a Hollywood Thriller" - Inside the 87-Page Lawsuit Against Diddy, Druski, and Odell Beckham Jr.

“It’s a Whole Movie”: Breaking Down the Explosive 87-Page Lawsuit Against Diddy In what one commentator called “a whole movie,” an explosive 87-page lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs has sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry. The lawsuit, filed by plaintiff Ashley Param alongside two additional plaintiffs identified only as John and Jane Doe, reads like a Hollywood thriller—except…

[reasonsforhope]

"Doctors and women now have the final say about when an abortion should be performed, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge struck down the state’s 15-week ban following last year’s vote to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution. 

Two local OB-GYNs and the Arizona chapter of Planned Parenthood took the state to court over the ban late last year. The trio argued that the 2022 law, which prohibited abortions after its gestational deadline unless a patient was facing death or the impairment of a major bodily function, should be struck down because voters in November [2024] overwhelmingly decided to make the procedure a fundamental right via Proposition 139. 

Judge Frank Moskowitz agreed, writing in a two-page ruling that the 15-week law is instantly nullified and no one will ever be able to carry out its punishments. The law threatened doctors who violated it with up to two years in prison. 

“(The state of Arizona), its respective agents, officers, employees, successors, and all persons acting in concert with each or any of them are hereby immediately and permanently and forever enjoined and restrained from implementing, enforcing, or giving any effect to (the 2022 law),” reads Moskowitz’s order. 

The 15-week ban directly conflicted with Prop. 139, because the voter-approved constitutional provisions explicitly allow abortions to be performed to the point of fetal viability, generally regarded to be around 23 to 24 weeks. It also includes a carveout for abortions beyond that point if a doctor deems one is necessary to preserve a patient’s life, physical or mental health. 

Abortion rights advocates celebrated the ruling, which has been long-awaited and represents the first win in tearing down Arizona’s many hostile abortion laws. More than two dozen anti-abortion laws remain on the books, including laws that mandate a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion can be performed and forbid the use of telehealth to prescribe the abortion pill. Each of those will likely need to be individually challenged in court. 

Dr. Paul Isaacson, one of the OB-GYNs involved in the lawsuit and the co-owner of a private abortion clinic in the Phoenix area, said the ruling restores his ability to offer his patients critical care without worrying about being criminalized for it. 

“For nearly three years, my hands were tied because of this cruel ban,” he said in a written statement. “It is a relief to no longer have to turn away patients from essential health care.”"

-via Arizona Mirror, March 5, 2025

[newwavenewsandentertainment]

Afe Babalola Takes Legal Action Against Dele Farotimi's Controversial Book

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亿万富翁赢了官司，死了全家（几乎）

转自 Original 共度时艰 贩财局 2024年08月28日…

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50 Cent: Come il Rapper Ha Affrontato i Suoi Problemi Legali

50 Cent, famoso rapper americano, ha affrontato molti problemi legali. È stato accusato di possesso di armi e traffico di droga. Ha anche avuto scontri con artisti come Ja Rule e The Game. Nonostante queste sfide, 50 Cent ha raggiunto il successo con canzoni come “In Da Club” e “21 Questions”. È diventato un nome importante nell’hip-hop. Ha saputo trasformare le avversità in opportunità. Così, ha…