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View More NewsFrom Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett, joined by Judges Carl Stewart, James Graves, Stephen Higginson, Dana Douglas, and Irma Carrillo Ramirez, dissenting on Thursday from denial of rehearing en banc: The Supreme Court has already called the constitutional issue presented here “undeniably important”: whether the First Amendment tolerates a negligent-protest theory that substitutes the mere foreseeability of a stranger’s violence for intent. After a decade of litigation, full discovery, and another appeal, every threshold obstacle is gone. At last, the question is cleanly presented…. Every obstacle that complicated Supreme Court review in 2020 is now gone. The state-law uncertainty that…
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Note: the following review contains plot spoilers.In the opening lines of his poem Ithaka, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), the second-most famous Greek poet to make his theme the perilous homecoming of the Trojan War hero Odysseus, wroteAs you set out for Ithakahope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians, Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.(The translation is from Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s 1975 compilation, C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems.) Christopher…
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from the openness-wins dept On a laptop screen in a dimly lit tent near the Donetsk front, a Ukrainian drone team steers its aircraft…
From today’s decision by Judge Trevor McFadden (D.D.C.) in Soffer v. George Washington Univ.: Two former George Washington University (“GWU”) students and a student…
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Security for artificial intelligence-powered agents should be built into the entire system, not just around the model itself, to better prevent failures and attacks…
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