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Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Sue over Notre Dame Law Clinic’s Filing Amicus Brief Condemning China’s Actions Towards Uyghurs

Politics & Policy

From Judge Gretchen Lund (N.D. Ind.) Monday in Chen v. Univ. of Notre Dame; the plaintiffs’ Complaint focuses on a Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic amicus brief in an Argentina court that included allegedly false “website content and related activities accusing China of genocide and crimes against the human rights of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.” Plaintiffs’ Complaint contains very few allegations involving Plaintiffs themselves; largely, the Complaint references alleged harms to “mainland China” and Chinese people generally. There are only six paragraphs in which Plaintiffs identify harm they have suffered. Each are discussed below. Paragraph 71 alleges that “defendants…

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Israel’s Uprovoked and Unanswered Attack on the USS Liberty

Investigative Reports

The USS Liberty being escorted to Malta after an attack by Israeli air and naval forces that killed 34 members of her crew and wounded another 171. Photo: US Navy. In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six-Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel’s attack on the Arab states. The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship. Only hours after the Liberty arrived, it was spotted by the Israeli military. The IDF sent out reconnaissance planes to identify the ship.…

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A Rare Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff in Libel Case

Political Spin

From Judge David Leibowitz (S.D. Fla.) in Mosler v. Wagner; plaintiff Warren Mosler is a hedge fund executive, author on economics, luxury sports car developer, and former unsuccessful political candidate; defendant James Todd Wagner was a former Director of Engineering at Mosler’s car company, and had tried to buy the company: Mosler brings this action against Wagner for defamation per se and unauthorized publication of name or likeness. The facts at summary judgment are as follows: Prior to the instant case, Wagner filed a twenty-count complaint against Mosler in the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, in and for…

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Immigrant Detainees are Striking Against Environmental Injustice

Investigative Reports

ABC7NY, YouTube screenshot. On Memorial Day, shortly after the tear gas deployed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement dissipated, community members outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall began to cover their faces for a different reason: the stench of sewage drifting down Doremus Avenue. “Nobody wants to be out there. It’s stinky,” X Braithwaite, an environmental justice organizer at Ironbound Community Corporation, told me over the phone. “It’s a public health hazard.” Delaney Hall is New Jersey’s largest immigration detention facility, reopened by the Trump administration in May 2025. One year later, detainees began a hunger and labor strike to protest the…

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