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Israeli Supreme Court Overrules Government In Alqasem Case
The Israeli Supreme Court has overturned the government’s decision to refuse permission to enter the country to Lara Alqasem, a Palestinian American and a former advocate for the BDS movement. Alqasem had traveled to Israel on a student visa to begin studies at Hebrew University, and she said she no longer supported BDS. She was……
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Case of the Day: Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger v. Kogan
The case of the day is Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger v. Kogan (N.D. Cal. 2018). Dan Shefet, the president of the Association for Accountability and Internet Democracy, a French group, and Sabine Leurheusser-Schnarrenberger, the former German minister of justice, sought leave to serve a subpoena on Aleksandr Kogan under § 1782. Both Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Shefet had Facebook accounts.……
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Case of the Day: Overstock.com v. Visocky
The case of the day is Overstock.com, Inc. v. Visocky, (E.D. Va. 2018). Overstock sued Viktor Visocky, Otto Srams, Olga Korischenko, Alexander Bekoev, and others for trademark and copyright infringement, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, etc. Korischenko and Bekoev were in Russia, and Visocky and Srams in Latvia. Overstock sought and received……
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Trump: Immorality, Degradation, Cynicism, Humiliation
I’ve stopped writing about President Trump. How many times can one say that he’s unfit for office? But this latest story, the story of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is so awful. A Washington Post journalist enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and doesn’t come out. The Saudi government says he left and that they don’t know……