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Texas judge temporarily halts 2 transgender child abuse investigations

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Friday temporarily halted the state’s child abuse investigations into two families with transgender children, agreeing they faced immediate harm.

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No Pseudonymity in Case Alleging Anxiety and Panic Attacks

From Doe v. Truist Financial Corp., decided Tuesday by Judge Victoria Marie Calvert (N.D. Ga.): Plaintiff was an employee of Defendant Truist Financial Corp. which provided short term disability benefits to its employees through the Truist Financial Corporation Employee Benefit Plan. Plaintiff ceased working on April 22, 2021 due to…

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No Pseudonymity for Plaintiff Suing Over Errors in Criminal History Report

From today's decision by Judge Joseph Goodwin (S.D. W. Va.) in Doe v. Evident ID Inc.: Plaintiff brings suit pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) against Defendants Evident ID Inc. and MRI Software LLC, two consumer reporting agencies (CRAs), alleging violations of the FCRA's requirement that CRAs "follow…

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"May Be The Most Helpful Brief I've Ever Read,"

said Judge Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.) about this amicus brief from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen).and Phillip R. Malone of the Juelsgaard I/P and Innovation Clinic (at Stanford).

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No Pseudonymity for Lawyer Who Wants to Conceal Litigation Against Government from Future Clients

From Chief Judge Beryl Howell's opinion in Doe v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security (D.D.C. Mar. 14, 2022): Plaintiff, an attorney, has moved to proceed pseudonymously as he litigates his instant claim under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information from various government agencies about a January 2021 incident, during…

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Arizona State's Trademark Lawsuit Over ASU_Covid.Parties Instagram Account

The account posted items such as (in mid-2020), "ASU: No More Social Distancing. No More Masks. It Is Time to Party!"

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Pseudonymous Lawsuit by Police Officer Over His Placement on "Exculpatory Evidence List"

I blogged last month about this motion to unseal and oppose pseudonymity that I filed in this case (Doe v. Town of Lisbon); since then, the officer filed a response, and I just filed a reply: [I.] Lawsuits related to allegations of criminal misconduct are routinely litigated in public, without…

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No Pseudonymity for Doctor's Claim of Employment Retaliation by University of Colorado

From a decision this morning by Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter (D. Colo.) in Doe v. Regents of Univ. of Colo.: Plaintiff is a Hispanic female doctor. She is a highly trained and skilled triple board-certified anesthesiologist, formerly employed as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Colorado ("CU"), with…

Reason

EXPLAINER: Schools may be Texas' next immigration fight

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to challenge another decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent that requires public schools to educate students regardless of legal status

The Independent UK

Texas Gov. Abbott sparks backlash with talk of rolling back free school for immigrant kids

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has infuriated immigration advocates and educators by suggesting Texas may challenge a longstanding U.S. Supreme Court decision that says states and localities can’t bar unauthorized immigrant children from attending public schools.

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Pseudonymous Lawsuit by Police Officer Over His Placement on "Exculpatory Evidence List"

I filed a motion to unseal and oppose pseudonymity last week in Doe v. Town of Lisbon (thanks to my students Ireland Larsen, Matthew Veldman, Erin Yonchak for their work on it), and I thought readers might find it interesting. The backstory, from a 2020 N.H. Supreme Court decision (see…

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"Do Copyright Holders Get a Free Pass to Identify Alleged Infringers?"

From Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) (bullets and some paragraph breaks added): [A] controversy over Twitter postings by CallMeMoneyBags … presents the latest challenge in the Northern District of California to the well established rule, first established in 2001 in Dendrite International v. Doe, previously followed in that district as…

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Activision Faces New Sexual Harassment Suit as Microsoft Buyout Looms

The suit says the plaintiff complained to HR on multiple occasions and was dismissed.

The Street

No Pseudonymity in Challenge to Denial of Religious Exemption from Military Vaccine Mandate

From U.S. Army ROTC ECP Cadet Doe v. Biden, decided yesterday by Chief Judge Beryl Howell (D.D.C.) (contrary to decisions in M.D. Fla., N.D. Ill. and D. Colo., but consistently with this nonprecedential Seventh Circuit order): Plaintiff, "a nineteen-year-old male ROTC Early Commissioning Program (ECP) candidate" who is "currently a…

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Another Pseudonymous / Sealed Police Officer Lawsuit

The case is Doe v. Town of Lisbon (D.N.H.), which stemmed from police officer Doe's being fired—wrongly so, he claims—and being placed on the "Exculpatory Evidence Schedule" (also known in New Hampshire as the "Laurie List"), in which his disciplinary record would be disclosed by prosecutors to defense lawyers whenever…

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Pseudonymity for Defendant Accused of "Professional Wrongdoing," If Case Is Promptly Settled

In IPSOS MMA, Inc. v. Doe (decided Jan. 25 but just posted on Westlaw), the plaintiff, a marketing analytics company, sued an ex-employee for alleged trade secret infringement; the case settled within three months of filing, and Judge Paul Engelmayer (S.D.N.Y.) allowed it to be litigated pseudonymously: On November 18,…

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Child Pornography Lawsuit Against Pornhub Can Go Forward

So holds Judge L. Scott Coogler (N.D. Ala.) in today's Doe v. MG Freesites, LTD. An excerpt from the long opinion: [I]f Plaintiffs' allegations are true, Defendants, through Pornhub and other sites, host and harbor child pornography—i.e., knowingly receive and possess it—which are illegal acts under the United States Code…

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