9th Cir. holds that the Bad Spaniels parody toy of a Jack Daniel's bottle is unlikely to harm the reputation of Jack Daniel's trademarks *because* it is parody. Held: no dilution by tarnishment; remanded for entry of judgment in favor of Bad Spaniels maker. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Bumping for the people who sleep at night and are now awake

Ansel Halliburton@anseljh.com · yesterday

I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been busy building. What have I been building, you ask? I have been building Nomolith. Long thread follows! 🧵

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

24-hour Hormuz traffic rolling over sharply ... now at just 3. - Schwab

I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been busy building. What have I been building, you ask? I have been building Nomolith. Long thread follows! 🧵

yo new ship impoundment just dropped www.courtlistener.com/docket/73589...

United States v. MOTOR TANKER PHONIX WITH INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION NUMBER 9198317, AND..., 1:26-cv-01405 - CourtListener.com

Docket for United States v. MOTOR TANKER PHONIX WITH INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION NUMBER 9198317, AND..., 1:26-cv-01405 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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Legal research... like a pirate!

Our co-founder and director, @michaeljaylissner.com and our AI developer, Nathan Dahlberg sat down with @bobambrogi.bsky.social for his podcast. They talked about the effort to bring good, solid legal research to everyone — not just lawyers. Everyone: www.lawnext.com/2026/07/on-l...

On LawNext: Legal Research for Everyone: Inside the CourtListener-Claude Partnership

Last month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announce...

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SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. Thank you @joepatrice.bsky.social for this great piece. abovethelaw.com/2026/06/thos...

Those 'WL' Citations Are An Open Invitation To AI Hallucinations - Above the Law

Those proprietary citations carry risks for the publishers.

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A big surprise of Chatrie: Kavanaugh provides the 5th vote for a broad privacy-based reading of the Fourth Amendment, extending Carpenter. So we get a Kagan majority with Roberts, Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, and Jackson, taking a broad view of Carpenter. Gorsuch is a 6th vote, but on property grounds.

Breaching what was once considered the most heavily defended airspace in the world, a Ukrainian drone flew through downtown Moscow in broad daylight.

I made a very thin Python client for the EUIPO's #trademark search APIs in 90 minutes flat. github.com/anseljh/euip...

I have a wild idea. When we have factual disputes about possible misconduct by government officials, we pick a small group of random citizens, maybe 12, tell them what the rules are, and ask them to listen to the evidence and make a decision about who’s right.

Wisconsin Examiner@wisconsinexaminer.com · 2mo ago

BREAKING: Salah Sarsour released from ICE detention via @isiahholmes.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/06/18/s...

And another video 😅😅😅

Mastcam mosaic captured by Curiosity on that same day and location Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Mars 🧪🔭

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fascinating images from Curiosity pushing further into unknown territory on her way up the slopes of Aeolis Mons. Images captured yesterday. The Mira Flores butte can be spotted on the 5th image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. #Mars 🧪🔭

I made a weird thing! It's a small, incomplete LLM wiki about space law. You're welcome! github.com/anseljh/spac...

Update on our case law scanning project: 606 volumes and 655,631 pages are scanned. From here they go through our redaction system and get digitized for inclusion in CourtListener. Earlier blog post: free.law/2026/04/16/s...

Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law

Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so...

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Rebecca just keeps churning out cool itch-scratchers like this!

Rebecca Fordon@thefordon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)

We and @facoalition.bsky.social fought an overbroad unconstitutional order telling the "public" at large to pull down a court record. With (copious and generous!) help from @volokhc.bsky.social and @megangray.bsky.social, we won. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Don’t dehumanize the humanities. Words matter, and “content“ is a crappy word.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2mo ago

He may be a cranky old man, but his take has merit? Set of vocabulary we use on our teams: "Creative works" - A movie like Sinners is a creative work. "Content" - The interviews, trailers, reviews, are content about the creative work. "Conversation" - fans and critics talking about the above two

Ukraine officially opens the St Petersburg Economic Forum. Warm memories and hot impressions guaranteed.

TIL John Wick runs Linux

Is this better or worse than nothing?

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Von der Leyen says Russia crossed another line today. A Russian drone entered Romanian territory and struck a densely populated area, injuring civilians on EU soil, she adds. The EU stands in full solidarity with Romania and is preparing a 21st sanctions package, she says.

decided my rss reader would function better w/ a winamp skin

Is this a lot for a side project? It seems like a lot for a side project.

New Ninth Circuit oral argument in everyone's favorite forever #trademark case, VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. 🔉 www.courtlistener.com/audio/105037...

Oral Argument for VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. – CourtListener.com

Oral Argument for VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc.

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Is this a lot for a side project? It seems like a lot for a side project.

I submitted a pull request to the Claude for Legal skills repo while listening to the Claude for Legal webinar today. Hey #trademarks people, this isn't so hard - chime in! github.com/anthropics/c...

ip-legal clearance skill improvements by anseljh · Pull Request #31 · anthropics/claude-for-legal

This PR makes a few small improvements to the trademark clearance skill. Main changes: Adds context about trademark classes Trademark lingo tweaks (e.g., prefer "register" to "regis...

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Cope cages, but for submarines 👀

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👀 After Operation Spiderweb, the Russians began to protect their submarines even 7,400 km from Ukraine. Satellite images of the Rybachy naval base on the Kamchatka Peninsula show anti-drone nets on at least two Borei and Borei-A class nuclear submarines.

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Finally our news is out. Legal research is changing today. It really is. This stuff is unreal.

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 3mo ago

CourtListener is now available inside Claude as a new MCP Connector. Here's what that means and why it matters. 👇 free.law/2026/05/12/c...