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But this Google trial? By far the most important moment was when Judge Mehta denied a third-party motion to broadcast a publicly accessible audio feed of the trial for fear that information Google wishes wouldn’t be disclosed become public. Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public... See more
Matt Stoller • How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial
Splitting Hairs
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
When the law favors your position, identify it and return to it again and again.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
A centuries-old doctrine generally de-fined as “an unreasonable interference with a right common to the general pub-lic,” 2
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the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.
Todd Rose • Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
The analogy is telling, because it illustrates how an ethic of not judging that had developed to protect the weak could serve just as well to guard the strong.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
They chose contamination over exile, the invisible over the visible threat.