The Latest Breaking News from Second Circuit

From today's opinion in Moore v. Baron Cohen, by Judges Rosemary S. Pooler, Gerard E. Lynch, Raymond J. Lohier, Jr.: Baron Cohen created, co-produced, and co-wrote Who Is America?, a television program that aired on Showtime. As part of the show, Baron Cohen and his team convinced Roy Moore ("Judge…

The Sixth Circuit disagrees with the Second Circuit in the @RealDonaldTrump case (but maybe not by much).

Citizenship, machine guns, and bigamy

From Hermes Int'l v. Rothschild, an opinion issued today by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): Around December 2021, defendant Mason Rothschild created digital images of faux-fur-covered versions of the luxury Birkin handbags of plaintiffs Hermes International and Hermes of Paris, Inc. (collectively, "Hermes"). Rothschild titled these images "MetaBirkins" and sold them…

Plasma, prisons, and political parties

Prosecutor-induced perjury, a satirical arrest (and prosecution), and an unraised winning argument.

though laws generally banning mislabeling food as “halal” (or “kosher”) violate the Establishment Clause.

Flea collars, bachelors, and data scraping.

More from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story); seems quite right to me: The bias-related-incidents policy creates a mechanism by which a UCF student can be anonymously accused of an…