April Pina-Avant

It was a dark stormy night. Tweets are my own📱💻🔌 Former Digital comms for @NAACP_LDF.

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

Nana!!! You are on Twitter?!??!??!! Love you too!

[June Pina @pina_june]

@AprilAvant Hello my beautiful granddaughter l so happy to see you on this site love you

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

This is nuts. https://t.co/laW1SlIAvt

[Melanie Roussell Newman @MelanieRNewman]

This is a helluva record.

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

@SIfill_ Bahahahaha 😂😘

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

🚨 A federal judge in PA has DENIED plaintiff ATS Tree Services’ motion to block the FTC’s rule banning worker noncompete agreements.

Starting September 4, virtually all noncompete agreements across the country will be void. Big win for the FTC and tens of millions of workers.

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

If you want to understand the intricacies of the legal claims in the recent Supreme Court redistricting case #AlexandervSouthCarolina, listen to LDF Assistant Counsel @johnscusick make it plain.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

The jury in Epic v Google deliberated for 4hrs before unanimously deciding Google is an illegal monopolist.

Meanwhile, it’s been 6 months since proceedings ended in the Google Search case, and Judge Mehta has yet to issue a decision.

Define “bad at deciding technical cases.”

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

It will never not be funny that Amazon called its process for canceling a Prime subscription "Project Iliad" after Homer's epic 15,693-line poem.

That familiar factoid popped up in one of *two* antitrust lawsuits filed by @AZAGMayes against the online shopping giant today.

[Morgan Harper @mh4oh]

A judge just stayed the @CFPB credit card late fees rule that would save consumers $10 billion a year.

The case has been mired in judicial conflicts of interests.

https://t.co/IOot9lKpPp

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Closing arguments in #USvGoogle are under way. The remote call-in line is an inaudible mess, but you can try here:

Toll Free Number: 877-848-7030
Access Code: 3218747

Get caught up on the case below, and I'll update in 🧵if I can. https://t.co/3wlkiFbM1v

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Crypto is a security, even when sold in secondary markets. More bad news for Ripple, who are staring down a tough fight on a likely appeal, as Terraform and now Coinbase have lost on this exact point.

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

@CaraMcClellan6 Is that your mom?

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

Ay-yo

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

Biden just said he’s cracking down on landlords who violate antitrust laws with price-fixing software algorithms. #SOTU 🔥🔥🔥

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

The French parliament has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right at a historic joint session at the Palace of Versailles. https://t.co/P4uwvrbYsn

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

Gah! So excited! Literally 10 years waiting for something like this, only to say no thanks. I love my humanity. Singularity and getting older. https://t.co/X0b9U7Hpmo

[April Pina-Avant @AprilAvant]

@LeeHepner Hahaha
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[Charlotte Slaiman @CharlottesWWWeb]

States then suggested maybe the real answer is 3) The default contract with Apple has to be huge because they are actually paying Apple to stay out of the search market. That's one clear way it would justify being so expensive.

[Charlotte Slaiman @CharlottesWWWeb]

Going further, states argued that if Google's previous arguments are correct, their search engine is so much better for users, and monetizes so much better, Apple has no leverage in these negotiations. Did Pichai ever suggest Apple should get *less* money from Google? No.

[Charlotte Slaiman @CharlottesWWWeb]

I'm at #USvGoogle this morning, we're on a brief break. A pretty funny exchange btwn the DOJ lawyer and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. When G heard Microsoft was planning to set MSN search as the default in their new browser, Google lawyer David Drummond sent them a long nastygram...

[Charlotte Slaiman @CharlottesWWWeb]

We do know it includes a provision stating that Apple must limit its own answering of search queries to a system "substantially similar" to status quo 2016. Pichai claims this means Apple can do "whatever it wanted" w its own search product. But that is not supported by the docs.

[Charlotte Slaiman @CharlottesWWWeb]

DOJ argues more narrowly that the effect of the agreement is in part to prevent Apple from entering search. On that, there seems to be a factual dispute about the meaning of the contract, but we the public can't see the contract. I assume/hope Judge Mehta can!