SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks
Also: There are other big pending applications. Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor : It's absurd. SCOTUS has held that even temporary violations of the First Amendment constitute irreparable harm. — So ...
A US judge temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that would require age verification for all and parental consent for teens to join some social networks
or access to it. “To give government that power,” warns the Supreme Court, “is to enable it to control the expression of ideas.” Thankfully, “that is what the First Amendment protects all of us from...
Profile of Jim Hood, who tussled with Google during his 16 years as Mississippi's AG and, sources say, is now advising the AG-led multistate antitrust probe
Leah Nylen / Politico : Tweets: @ruralchrislee Tweets: Chris Lee / @ruralchrislee : Glad to see former Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood fighting the good fight. “Unfailingly polite in his soft S...
Sources: more than half of the state attorneys general in the US are preparing an antitrust investigation into Google, scheduled to be announced on September 9
Data Sheet Casey Newton / The Verge : YouTube says it's being responsible — but what it needs to be is accountable Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : US antitrust investigation into Google may begin ne...
Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas in case against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas — Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes …
After Google suit, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA
Mississippi AG backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — It appears that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is making a strategic retreat in the wake of publicity about his investigation of...