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Court grants Apple another stay on allowing external payments while awaiting SCOTUS appeal

TechSpot

At the same time, it filed a motion in district court to stay its ruling until the SCOTUS decides on the mandate. The lower court granted the motion and will allow Apple to continue its current policies until it settles the matter with the high court – if it even. Read Entire Article

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Keystone XL Is Blocked for Now, but the SCOTUS Ruling Helps 70 Other Pipelines

Gizmodo

Climate justice activists have had an ecstatic start to the week. In a 24-hour period, three major planned fossil fuel pipelines were delayed or possibly cancelled altogether: Developers cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Sunday, a court ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline be cancelled on Monday, and just hours… Read more.

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This legal writing startup is using AI to spot misrepresentations in litigation docs

GeekWire

Clearbrief is also aiming to make the law more accessible to the public with tools such as this interactive SCOTUS opinion. New regulations, such as New York’s recently-adopted rule on hyperlinking in electronically-filed documents, are also helping drive growth. The company, which launched last year, has 10 employees and is growing.

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The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time

The Verge

In 2014, SCOTUS denied certiorari, sending the case back to the district court in San Francisco for a retrial. The question of who gets to decide fair use, and when, is something that can be extrapolated out to a lot of different legal cases (which SCOTUS loves) and also has nothing to do with math (which SCOTUS does not love).

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Supreme Court’s denial of Trump’s attempt to rescind DACA is a win for Dreamers and Microsoft

GeekWire

Today’s #SCOTUS decision is a victory for the country. About 66 Microsoft employees are Dreamers. The program has allowed about 800,000 young immigrants to work and receive an education in the U.S. since President Barack Obama created it in 2012. — Brad Smith (@BradSmi) June 18, 2020.

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Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.

Vox

The influential ninth-century philosopher John Scotus Eriugena, for example, insisted that part of what it meant for Adam to be formed in God’s image was that he was a creator, a maker. But in the Middle Ages, Christian thinkers developed a radical idea, as the historian David Noble explains in his book The Religion of Technology.

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Will the pro-abortion billionaires please stand up?

Vox

A handful — many of them known more for their philanthropy than for their political activity — condemned the SCOTUS decision, including Melinda French Gates , Sheryl Sandberg , Bill Gates, George Soros , and Mike Bloomberg. What we can glean from public statements powerful billionaires have made so far isn’t all that stirring.

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