Ryan Farrick is a writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
“The trajectory of this litigation has always depended on when and how the state chooses to enforce Section 5 [of Proposition 314],” an ACLU attorney said. “In the first month that Section 5 has become fully enforceable, we’ve just seen none. So, from a litigation standpoint, it means our best strategy is to hold off until we get evidence of that enforcement.”
“Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persist at Harvard to this day,” the judge wrote.
“Once an archaeological site is excavated by heavy machinery, once the physical context of artifacts is destroyed, or once a sacred or culturally significant landscape is permanently altered, the injury is irreparable,” says the lawsuit,
“Arellano struck her because she talked back to him—because she questioned him, objected to what he was doing, and declined to be silent while he did it,” the lawsuit alleges. “A closed-fist blow to the face of an unarmed eighteen-year-old girl is not a permissible answer to speech, and it is not a permissible answer to a detainee who pulls her arm away during handcuffing.”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of “antisemitism,” the lawsuit alleges, makes it easy to conflate routine criticisms of the Israeli state with more generalized antipathy against the Jewish people. In some cases, students and university employees were subject to investigation for making pro-Palestinian statements or wearing cultural attire such as the kaffiyeh.
A spokesperson for the Trump Media & Technology Group, which own Truth Social, has since pushed back on the allegations, saying that the monetization of social media features is a common industry practice, adding that Truth Social is “an uncancellable haven for free speech.”
“The Trump administration is attempting to seize confidential state records without any lawful justification,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said. “New Yorkers provide their personal information to the state with the expectation that it will be protected, not handed over to anyone who demands it.”
“Roblox lied to investors and failed to protect children from online predators,” Ohio AG Wilson said in a press release. “We’re taking action to recover millions in lost pension funds and to make it clear that tech companies must be held accountable when they put kids in harm’s way.”
The lawsuit claims that TikTok knows that its product could prove addictive for children and other vulnerable users, yet has taken few meaningful efforts to prevent over-use.
In its initial complaint, the Justice Department said that Minneapolis Public Schools gave preferential treatment to racial minorities, largely as the result of a provision in the collective bargaining agreement made between the teachers’ union and the district.