Category: supreme court

White House calls on Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s Twitter blocking

[ad_1] The case was first filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute in July 2017, and has since kicked off both a protracted legal battle and a wider conversation about the nature of the president’s Twitter account. About a year later, Judge Naomi Buchwald of New York’s Southern District ruled that President Trump’s ceaseless […]

Supreme Court rules against law allowing debt-collection robocalls to cell phones

[ad_1] The American Association of Political Consultants and three other organizations filed a suit aimed to invalidate the entirety of the TCPA so as to make it possible to make political robocalls to cell phones. But six of the nine justices have decided to invalidate the 2015 exception instead, stating that the 2015 update “impermissibly […]

Supreme Court rules generic website names can be trademarked

[ad_1] The USPTO, among others, suggested that allowing Booking.com to claim the trademark would harm other travel companies with the word “booking” in their domain names. Federal trademark law defines generic terms as those that don’t make a service or product distinct from other ones. It prevents companies from staking an exclusive claim to commonly […]

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to end DACA

[ad_1] Hundreds of CEOs signed a letter urging Trump to keep DACA. Those included Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Warren Buffett. Leaders from Airbnb, Dropbox, eBay, Fitbit, Foursquare, GoFundMe, LinkedIn, Lyft, Netflix, Netgear, Pandora, Tesla, Tumblr and Uber also […]

Supreme Court broadcasts oral arguments live for the first time

[ad_1] CNBC noted that this pioneering case is relatively unremarkable, revolving around a Booking.com attempt to trademark its name. There’s an incoming surge of higher-profile cases coming during this period, though, and the teleconferences might just shape perception of both the cases and the Supreme Court itself. As a general rule, the public only learns […]

Clarence Thomas laments ruling that let FCC kill net neutrality

[ad_1] Of course, stating a change of opinion doesn’t negate the ruling by itself. There would need to be another case that reversed Brand X, and the chances of that happening aren’t terribly high. Mozilla still has the option of appealing to the Supreme Court after it lost its bid to overturn Pai’s net neutrality […]

Google’s fight with Oracle will be heard in the Supreme Court

[ad_1] This isn’t the first time the Supreme Court has dealt with the issue. In 2015, the court refused to hear an appeal over the 2014 decision and sent the issue back to a lower court. In statements to the Supreme Court, Oracle claimed that Google’s use of Java snippets was the “epitome of copyright […]

Tim Cook disputes Trump immigration policy in Supreme Court filing

[ad_1] The company also noted that it employed 443 Dreamers (DACA recipients) who “embody Apple’s innovation strategy” by being some of the company’s “most driven and selfless” staff. Moreover, it observed that immigration was central to Apple’s story — the late Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant. The company has filed amicus […]

The battle to make the end of ‘Game of Thrones’

[ad_1] ‘Game of Thrones’ first look: Inside the brutal battle to make season 8James Hibberd,Entertainment Weekly HBO’s insanely popular epic concludes in April, but the battle to film the battles, and to keep them from being leaked ahead of time, was a constant struggle for the crew. Entertainment Weekly goes behind the scenes of the […]