There's so much great stuff in this film that I noticed for the first time.
In the middle there's a long action and dialogue take with Poitier leading and the rest of the cast having to hit their marks that must have taken hours to get right.
There's also a part I hadn't noticed before where the camera casually pans by while Poitier is delivering exposition while the blind dude is chopping vegetables in the foreground. So good.
Oh, it's just so good.
Of course, the big test is how many of this ensemble cast went on to be in the MCU. As far as I can tell, it's just Redford and Kingsley.
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Attorney arguing against the OSHA mandate points out the 100-employee line-drawing was based on expedience rather than evidence that COVID-spread is worse in businesses with more than 100 employees.
Justice Barrett getting some concessions here from counsel opposing the OSHA mandate, who seems to agree that there are some businesses where a mandate might be appropriate. She mentioned meatpacking plants and the dentist.
The next attorney opposing the OSHA mandate is up now. He's arguing remotely bc of a covid diagnosis. (His symptoms have abated.)
5th Cir. revives excessive force and bystander liability suit from family of a man having a mental health crisis who died after officers restrained him with a five-man takedown during which he fell unconscious and then asphyxiated.
I like this approach a lot. They start with the first prong for evaluating QI, making clear that, if the facts are as alleged, a Fourth Amendment violation occurred before moving on to the whether that was clearly established law at the time.
This is the meat of the discussion of whether it was clearly established in 2016 that officers engage in objectively unreasonable use of force by continuing to kneel on the back of an individual who has been subdued.
Since Democrats want to talk about their voting rights bill, a reminder that much of HR1 is unconstitutional. A list:
(1) Requiring websites/media to keep logs of ads about politics for disclosure (violates 1A);
(2) Requiring disclosure of donors to private advocacy groups (violates 1A); (3) Imposing redistricting commissions (violates anti-commandeering doctrine); (4) Mandating manner of presidential elections (violates Art. II, sec. 1);
(5) Requiring a code of conduct for SCOTUS justices (violates sep. of powers); (6) Requiring POTUS candidates to release tax returns (violates Art. II, sec. 1); (7) Overturning Citizens United (violates 1A)
Not the first employer this week to require vaccine and booster even for those who telework.
We're moving back into a socially conscious phase of the pandemic. Which we had early then lost and now private employers seem to think the pendulum is swinging back.