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Dec 12 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
OK, folks, this Yoel Roth imbroglio, of all things, has effectively been the last straw for me. I'm going to be significantly decreasing my twitter usage and migrating my Litigation Disaster Tours over to Mastodon (mastodon.sdf.org/@AkivaMCohen). I'll post links to them here when I do.
Twitter's been an absolutely amazing place for me. I've found better friends, partners, and clients than I could've ever imagined, some great communities. Somehow 40K of you decided I was worth paying attention to, which seems like a mistake. But ...
If I wanted to have an account on Gab, I'd just have opened an account on Gab. We're the product, and with the owner of this site effectively using it to paint targets on people and apparently seeking to turn it into Fox.Social, I don't feel great about contributing
I want to be crystal clear here: Elon Musk has every right to do whatever the fuck he wants to do with this place.
Whether I think it's smart or stupid, helpful or dangerous has nothing to do with that. He (over)paid for the place, he can decorate it how he likes.
Like I said to other folks who complained about how this place was run: it's private property; if you don't like it, you can find someplace else. So that's what I'm doing.
Of course, this isn't an airport, so why am I announcing my departure? Two reasons.

First, I want you - especially my friends on here, but also anyone who enjoyed my content or learned from it - to know where to find me moving forward.
And second, because for some reason some of you actually think I've got value to add, so I wanted you to know that in my judgment, Twitter has reached the point where it's time to leave rather than stay. You may have a different view, and that's totally fine. This is mine.
Anyway, you'll still see me around as I transition over, and you'll still see "Hey, #LitigationDisasterTourists" pop up in your feed every so often. It'll just have a mastodon (or post, where I'm, creatively, @AkivaMCohen) link for you to find the rest.
It's been a blast and an honor, y'all.

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Dec 7
Listening to oral argument in Moore, joined midway through. Kavanaugh & Alito both sound skeptical of the appellants.
Gorsuch, on the other hand, is absolutely in the tank for the appellants
Kavanaugh skewering the appellants counsel, gets him to acknowledge that state courts under his rule could interpret state statutes "in light of the state constitution"
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Dec 4
Hey, #LitigationDisasterTourists ...

So, I've been a bit busy this week and this weekend. But as you all probably know, on Thurs the 11th Circuit issued its ruling overturning Judge Canon's insane order appointing a special master to review materials seized at Mar-a-Lago
Let's start with the panel who issued the ruling and how they did it.

If Trump could have drawn up his dream panel, this is probably what he'd have picked: 2 judges he himself appointed, plus Pryor, an arch-conservative who's called abortion docs as "abortionists" in opinions
That "Per Curium"? It basically means "all of us, equally and together"

Many times, it can be the sign of a panel that doesn't want to have a particular judge's name associated with a controversial opinion. Here, it reads way more as "we're in lockstep because this is obvious"
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Nov 24
We are already representing some of the fired Twitter employees (from this and other waves) Musk is trying to stiff out of their severance. So are a number of other excellent firms/attorneys.

These people have options and should talk to MULTIPLE attorneys before signing anything
And yeah, multiple. Obviously, I think we're the best option to represent these folks - if we didn't, we wouldn't be taking people on. But this is not a decision anyone should make quickly, or without fully investigating their options.
Talk to your fellow tweeps. Connect with various attorneys. Pick who you're most comfortable with and make the decision that is best for you and your family - which may well be just taking what they are offering and moving on. That's a personal choice.
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Nov 21
If I routinely had followers in my mentions celebrating violence targeting trans people, I'd do a cheshbon hanefesh.

Not this chillul hashem.
Like ... this is who your audience is, Chaya. This is who you are playing to. @libsoftiktok is not meaningfully different, at this point, than any of the neonazi accounts that focus on "Jews behaving badly" - though in her case, "behaving badly" is just "existing"
Understand this: religiously, what Chaya is doing is considered *at best* "lashon hara" - which is one of the single worst things any Jew can engage in. It's a sin for which, in Jewish tradition, one loses their entire share of the World-to-Come.

And she's doing it for fun & $.
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Nov 18
It's not just that the people on here going "Twitter's going to be fine" don't necessarily have all the information about what's happening *in* Twitter, it's that they're not recognizing what's happening *on* Twitter
Twitter's biggest asset isn't its systems, or its employees, or its reach, or its user base.

It's Twitter's lock-in effect. People come here because people *are* here. And people don't leave here, because it's where our pocket friends are
Whether or not Musk manages to heroically right the ship at Twitter despite the company being staggered by employee losses (and attendant severance costs) that went way beyond what they were expecting (and it is, btw) is uncertain. Seriously uncertain.

And the result?
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Oct 21
Hey, new #LitigationDisasterTourists arriving for the Niemann v. Carlsen dust-up, this tweet is the first in a side-thread of links to older tweets discussing "actual malice" - an important standard in US defamation law that significantly harms Niemann's chances of success
Here's a one-tweet summary of what the "actual malice" standard requires a public-figure defamation plaintiff to prove:
Here's a brief discussion of whether niche fame (i.e. someone super well known in a particular community but not the wider world) makes you a public figure (yes, if the defamation at issue is directed at that niche community)
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