I just spent the last holiday weekend of the year wrangling with my landlord about their highly unprofessional landscaper, who has weirdly harassed us and made our lives difficult for the past few months, culminating with trying to steal a giant tub of 75 pounds of organic peaches from our harvest. When my husband caught them, they lied about it first to us, then to the landlord.

Does anyone have expertise in LL/tenant law, specifically the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment? #Lawstodon

This is a redacted version of the letter I got from the credit union. They actually think that they can lie to my face and tell me that they "apply this polocy equally" when they NEVER ONCE asked me to remove my mask before, or gave me ANY INDICATION WHATSOEVER OF A POLICY CHANGE.

They are claiming that since the TSA does it, it must not be dangerous. These assholes don't seem to realize that the TSA is endangering people and causing more #LongCOVID #Disability cases every day by forcing people to doff their mask to be identified.

I want these gaslighting pricks to have to experience what living with Long COVID is like, since they believe that forcing people to unmask "should not create excessive risk".

The fucked up thing is if they had written emails about this change they made, or just let us know in any way that there was a conscious choice being made to expose people to COVID in order to appease their bullshit feelings, I would maybe have just accepted it. It's the gaslighting, and the claim that there is no risk, the denial that they changed anything in the first place, when I opened my account while masked, that really gets to me.

I am hoping that #lawstodon or #Legalstodon or #mastodonlawyers or someone who knows about #discrimination #law will help me with this. It's really about the principle of the thing. There were hundreds of legal cases where people were funded with all the Koch oil money on Earth to do their anti-mask "medical exemption" BS. So if they can claim a medical exemption to having to wear a mask, how can I not claim a medical exemption that allows me to #maskup and protect myself? The math isn't mathing.

They literally sent it in writing that their policy officially is to deny service to people who won't remove their mask. That seems like something I should be able to sue them about, but I'm not sure. Any #MastodonLawyers want to chime in pro bono publica? Is #lawstodon a thing? I might well have the makings of a lawsuit against this credit union. I mean there were ever so many cases of people getting medical exemptions to wearing a mask, so why should I not be able to get an exemption that allows me to #MaskUp and protect myself against illness, not just #COVID but also everything else because I am #immunocomprised ?

Statement of the Stratbase ADR Institute on the 2016 Arbitral Award — 14 July 2023
#InternationalLaw #LawOfTheSea #UNCLOS #LawFedi #Lawstodon #LawProfs #LawDeans

“As provided for in UNCLOS, the Arbitral Tribunal’s decision is final and legally binding on both parties. We call on the Philippines and China to abide by its terms.” — UK Statement on the South China Sea

#InternationalLaw #LawOfTheSea #UNCLOS #Lawstodon #LawFedi #LawProfs #LawDeans

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-statement-on-the-south-china-sea

The new age of free speech

#TwitterDown
#FreeSpeech
#ConstitutionalLaw
#RateLimitExceeded
#LawFedi
#Lawstodon

Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices

#SCOTUS
#ConstitutionalLaw
#LawFedi
#Lawstodon

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/supreme-court-liberal-conservative.html

@rodhilton This is perhaps a question for #law or #lawstodon , but is there some mechanism for these various vendors and landlords to address these debts collectively? It seems insane to force them to individually sue for relief. What’s the distinction between a company that refuses to pay or renegotiate its obligations and a company that is bankrupt?

If #lawfedi folks haven't yet checked out https://www.lawstodon.org/, a wonderful contribution to #lawstodon by @jeff, I recommend doing so.

Lawstodon.org is a directory of the legal community on Mastodon. If you're active and on the #lawfedi list, you're probably already listed. Take a look and claim your profile if you so desire.

Thanks again Jeff!

@law

#Hashtags are everything on #Mastodon why not give them a home? Mastodon lets you #search for hashtags or keep columns open to track them. In addition to basic topic headings like #politics #music, people write posts w tags like #LawFedi or #lawstodon for legal posts, #intro for people joining the service. Mastodon should have a #WordPress-style or #Friendica-style method for listing #tags separately from content of the post with a separate character limit for the tags. https://www.theverge.com/23673125/mastodon-separate-tags-hashtag-navigation-accessibility

are mastodon.lawprofs.org and esq.social the only two law and legal specific instances?

#lawfedi #lawprofs #lawstodon

Hey #Lawfedi and #lawstodon

I am looking for a good list of standardized legal practice areas, preferably in csv, json, or spreadsheet format.

Anybody know of any?

I do have a question for #Lawstodon and the #legal scholars

What happens to Trump's benefits under the Former Presidents Act ( 3 U.S.C. § 102 ) if he ultimately is convicted of any of the myriad of charges he's facing?

Will his secret service detail join him in prison?

Just gonna toss this one out there for my #lawstodon (?) friends: Halifax councillor and former deputy mayor Pam Lovelace threatens "litigation" -- but not "suing", just "enacting [sic] defamation law" against a "display of hate" -- because a sign at a business called her the "worse councillor so far" [sic].

(I know a lot of law folks here don't do the Canada beat, but still, who might like to poke at this... @Popehat, @privacylawyer, @AkivaMCohen, @questauthority?)

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/saying-your-councillor-sucks-is-not-hate-speech/#N1

Hey #lawprofs & #lawstudents didn't Twitter/Musk just write the fact pattern for every upcoming #antitrust exam? #lawstodon Sherman Act, Section 5 of the FTC Act, etc . . .

One thing I miss about twitter is that I had several lawyers that I followed that usually chimed into the daily "that politician that you [love|hate] is definitely going to jail this time" news story and explain why it was probably not realistic and bring me back to reality whether I liked it or not.

I see @Popehat is here. Does anyone have good similar follow recommendations?

#law #legal #lawstodon

@mikehaber Is there a #lawstodon @densetsu ?

Webinar on Right to Housing on January 12th.

https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/tJwscuCvrzMpHdKVRsf_F3FZ1WflUTHrx6a-/success?user_id=6pFHkzfJQTySAb3Vv_volA&timezone_id=America%2FLos_Angeles

At a time of mass homelessness, deepening tenant precarity, and the criminalization of poverty, housing justice movements are pushing for a right to housing in California. In this convening, current and former UN Special Rapporteurs on Adequate Housing provide insight and guidance on key elements of such a right, how such a right can be informed by an international human rights framework ...

#housing #lawstodon @law #law

HR 8954 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8954?s=1&r=6) looks to add ICWA protections to IV-B plan requirements. Its effectiveness -- if passed -- will likely rely on exactly how far the reasoning in the Brackeen decision goes. Could be important in that anything that helps protect Native children is incredibly important - especially as those protections continue to be threatened. Interested if anyone here sees potential negatives or other positives? @law #lawstodon #law #Brackeen #ICWA

@EntropySloth #lawstodon much better, nice : )