The 14 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit who sat en banc to hear arguments on a school speech case demonstrated the difficulty in finding a unified answer to one of the case's central questions: whether or not the word "boobies" on a breast cancer awareness bracelet is sufficiently lewd to be banned from a middle school.
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"I am profoundly saddened to see yet another example of big tech cozying up to our government and bending rules to suit a specific agenda," Maura Daly, former head of responsible media at Google, wrote on LinkedIn.
A number of law firms "are not taking on the level of pro bono work, the level of pro democracy work that they did in the first Trump administration, or that they have historically, as a result of the president's strategy to try to intimidate institutions,” said Skye Perryman, CEO and president of Democracy Forward.
A Chicago federal judge said Thursday an Illinois liquor law preventing out-of-state retailers from shipping alcohol directly to its consumers is discriminatory but agreed the state has legitimate reasons to support the regulations.
Defense counsel for Combs previously asked the judge overseeing the entrepreneur’s case to sentence Combs to no more than 14 months in prison. He has already served 12. A jury acquitted Combs of the most serious charges, but found him guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution.
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