Pamela Samuelson

Copyright, Internet Law, Privacy, EFF, EPIC, @auths_alliance, BCLT

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

The second opinion is in Sripetch v. SEC, a case on the SEC’s use of disgorgement in securities enforcement. A unanimous court holds that a showing of pecuniary loss to investors is not required before the SEC may obtain a disgorgement award.

https://t.co/gHrPCCCVeT

[Liz Landers @ElizLanders]

PBS News has obtained a memo that was sent today to Kennedy Center staff that says that President Trump’s name has to be removed from Kennedy Center signage, promo materials, website, etc. It must happen by June 12, according to the center’s office of general counsel.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) files court brief urging judge to HALT Trump slush fund

Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"

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[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

Supreme Court's first ruling today: Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc.
KBJ unanimous opinion: Amarin has failed to state a claim for active inducement in violation of §271(b), so its complaint cannot withstand Hikma’s motion to dismiss. The central question is whether Amarin plausibly alleged that Hikma actively encouraged infringing use, not merely whether doctors could plausibly read the alleged statements as instructions to infringe.

[Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler]

BREAKING: A 9-0 Supreme Court *maintains* the Securities and Exchange Commission’s disgorgement authority, holding it can collect ill-gotten gains of alleged fraudsters without identifying individual victims of the scheme. #SCOTUS https://t.co/D5q3FZkvIO

[Dan Epps @danepps]

Wow. @SSRN is over. This is quite unfortunate, and infuriating. Law profs, we need a replacement.

https://t.co/x55YiLeQ1k

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Leela Gray @LeelaJGray]

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure.

Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years.

Gone.

This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway.

For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't.

Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled.

#LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray

https://t.co/8SBFNnsFcU

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

A late night prepping for Supreme Court opinions in the am. Here are the two that I am personally involved in:

-Watson (GOP challenge to mail-in voting)
-NRSC (GOP challenge to campaign finance)

Democracy Docket will have it covered. Subscribe now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

Sotomayor dissent is 🔥

Decision “debases the democratic process by upending AL’s entire election in name of permitting AL to discriminate against Black Alabamians & corrodes rule of law by rewarding AL’s gamesmanship & outright defiance of court orders.” https://t.co/xwMsJtt66J

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

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🧵 LOSS: Last night, SCOTUS greenlit Alabama’s gerrymander for the 2026 midterms — a map it previously found to be racially discriminatory.

The majority’s reasoning was riddled with contradictions, and opened the door to weakening the last-standing pillar in the fight against discriminatory maps👇

[CNN @CNN]

The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time. https://t.co/VcifYxiYcR

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

According to Andrew Weissmann, Blanche using sleight of hand; they’re not killing the deal. Trump still gets $1.776 billion. He still gets a sweeping civil liability shield. They only removed the J6 slush fund piece. Same jackpot. Less scrutiny. Worse than before.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for a ruling that “debases the democratic process” by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. https://t.co/ahoPNpCSNd

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Good.

From Punchbowl AM: "Senate Democrats are privately urging GOP leaders to pressure President Donald Trump to withdraw his appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence — and threatening to tank a bipartisan FISA deal if the president refuses."

[Brian Rosenwald @brianros1]

This is something that makes me angriest about these redistricting cases: judges with sterling conservative credentials have made voluminous findings of fact & the conservative justices have just ignored them.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

In the same way *courts* are criticizing DOJ and questioning whether the presumption of regularity still exists, you can't have SCOTUS doing 180s on three-year-old precedent! Especially when frowny face John Roberts claims they are not political actors!!

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.