U.S. District Judge Rita Lin has permanently enjoined the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services from enforcing its private-investigator licensing requirement against anti-spam entrepreneur Jay Fink. The order declares that forcing Jay to get a license to run his business is so irrational that it violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...

Jay's business stems from California's anti-spam act, which allows individuals to sue spammers. But to sue, they have to first compile evidence. To do that, recipients often have to wade through thousands of emails. For more than a decade, Jay has offered a solution: he and his team will scour a client's junk folder and catalog the messages that likely violate the law. But last summer, Jay's job — and Californians' ability to bring spammers to justice — came to a screeching halt when the state told him he was a criminal. A regulator told Jay he needed a license to read through emails that might be used as evidence in a lawsuit. And because Jay didn't have a private investigator license, the state shut him down.

The state of California has since "agreed to jointly petition the court for an order that forever prohibits it from enforcing its licensure law against Jay," according to the article.

The inflight worker alleges she was harassed for five months from the Fall of last year to the Winter of this year.

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Case file: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/224489.P.pdf

Authorities in Argentina have launched a criminal investigation into a major pirate sports streaming operation and blocked over 50 domains.

New Mexico judge agrees charges should be dropped after lawyers said state ‘buried’ evidence about live ammunition

During the Trump administration, ICE came up with the highly questionable scheme of setting up a completely fake college solely for the reason of setting up immigrants on H-1B visas for failure. The DHS and ICE created a faux university in Michigan (the “University of Farmington”), complete with a (fake) social media presence. Then it “opened” its doors to students on H-1B visas, which allowed foreign students to remain in the United States as long as they continued their education.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24793659/fifth-fake-college.pdf

Ruling clears way for two Georgia election workers to try and recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them

Rapper is one of several Dutch The Voice stars accused of sexual misconduct, in high-profile case that gripped the country

The grad student, a Chinese national, was arrested in January.

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Supporters of former Pakistan PM, who is serving seven years in prison, hope acquittal paves way for release

The 2023 murder of Ecuador's presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio made him one of the most prominent victims of the country’s spiraling violence.

After a judge in Argentina approved their extradition to the U.S., two alleged Z-Library operators escaped from house arrest and disappeared.

Inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island are suing the city claiming they were trapped in their cells during a jailhouse fire that injured 20 people last year.

A Kenyan court ruled that the police had used lethal force by killing the journalist. Arshad Sharif had escaped Pakistan after his interview with a politician stirred controversy.

Defense lawyers say jury was deadlocked on manslaughter count before judge abruptly declared mistrial

The prosecution of a director and a playwright has sent shockwaves through the artistic community.

Popular pirate library search engine Anna's Archive faces monetary damages and a permanent injunction at a U.S. court.

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A court in Romania’s capital has ruled that social media influencer Andrew Tate can leave Romania but must remain within the European Union as he awaits trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.