Ep 216 — Zuck and Musk Get Pantsed In Court … Twice
About this episode
The episode discusses various legal issues involving high-profile figures and organizations, including Elon Musk and Facebook, as well as government actions against companies.
Anthropic got its injunction against the Department of Defense and Pete Hegseth’s designation of the company as a supply chain risk. Elon Musk lost a shareholder class action suit in California over sh*tposts he made when he was trying to get out of buying Twitter. He demands a new trial because the jury made a 420 joke, and everyone knows that only he is allowed to do that. Meanwhile in Texas, X Corp lost a lawsuit against a bunch of Fortune 500 companies for daring to take their business elsewhere Trump housing goon Bill Pulte is back on his BS, trying again to get someone to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, this time for insurance fraud. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that there will be hell to pay if he doesn’t ditch the Rooney Rule. And Minnesota law enforcement and prosecutors sued the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security for blockading the evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and Alex Pretti. MAIN SHOW: The Eighth Circuit joins the Fifth in endorsing ICE’s fakakta interpretation of the mandatory detention statute. Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg loses in two courts —…
Topics covered
- legal battles
- social media
- shareholder lawsuits
- government actions
- trade practices
- political figures
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