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The memo isn’t actually “dense and legalistic” at all; the reporters just don’t understand the subject matter.

context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/def…
She is saying that bankruptcy is designed to provide a process for equitably balancing different creditors’ claims, including consumer creditors, employers, and tort victims. If you let some creditors revive stake claims after reorganization you screw over all the other creditors
Also the article misleadingly says she was helping a company “avoid paying for cleaning up a toxic site” which makes it sound like she was helping it pollute. The toxic site was being cleaned up by a different company and the Q was whether that company had to be indemnified.
A lot more analysis on this from @ssamcham
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Your DOJ just filed a brief with the Supreme Court saying it’s fine for employers to have dress codes prohibiting women from wearing pants.
Only thing I would add to this great explanation is that the employer literally has a rule prohibiting women from wearing pants. DOJ says it was ok to fire Stephens for wearing a skirt because employer would also have fired a cis woman for wearing pants.
DOJ could have tried to argue that sex stereotyping against trans people is somehow different that sex stereotyping against cis people. Instead, it argued no one can bring sex stereotyping claims if the stereotypes are "equally" applied to men and women.
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1. I think the disagreement about posting info about Trump's donors turns on a distinction between (a) using donor info to hold elected officials accountable and (b) using donor info to hold donors accountable.
2. NYT and other newspapers often write stories based on donor info to say that politician X is beholden to the interests of big donor Y. But they are not used to donor info being used to say that donor Y should be criticized for their support of politician X.
3. What did Scalia think about this? "There are laws against threats and intimidation; and harsh criticism, short of unlawful action, is a price our people have traditionally been willing to pay for self-governance...."
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1. Judge Ho has a concurring opinion out in Wittmer v Phillips 66 that's basically an amicus brief to SCOTUS for why Title VII doesn't protect LGBT people. I have some thoughts.
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2. I've read this footnote 15 times, and I still don't understand what he thinks the difference is between original legislative intent and original public meaning. It has the patina of logic, but it has no real content.
3. The historical record is clear that people in 1964 did not think that sexual harassment was sex discrimination. Courts said it wasn't through the mid-1970s. Of course it would have been surprising that that the statute would later be interpreted that way.
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Please post the memo so that lawyers can judge for themselves what it means.
Max explained merits of dispute here. Reasonable people can disagree on whether state-law claims that don't spring into existence until after bankruptcy concludes should be extinguished by it. Warren apparently was bankruptcy maximalist.
It's just journalistic malpractice to now force that procedural attitude--which necessarily benefits some creditors and hurts others--into reductive prism of pro- or anti-consumer. It is very troubling to see Post punish a law professor for having views that defy simple politics.
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I haven’t seen this posted by the DOJ yet, but it’s being reported that 2 former Twitter employees and a 3rd person were federally charged with spying on specific Twitter users on behalf of Saudi Arabia.

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