Another Monday, another batch of quick hits from LXBN. If you’re feeling like you need a little boost to get your through your blogging week after a four-day week, look no further. Last week saw a tide of change for the Dakota Pipeline—but why was the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe trying to stop a pipeline? Possibly because BLM was right: air pollution is a race issue. And it’s becoming a national movement, following the desecration of a burial site. Ultimately President Obama stepped in, saying the Dakota pipeline “will not go forward at this time.” And this week we’ve seen the bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudis pass, despite White House veto threat.
- FBI Director James Comey: FBI wants ‘adult conversation’ on device encryption
- The Guantanamo quagmire: Still no trial in sight for 9/11 suspects.
- A Connecticut judge ordered the state to overhaul its entire education system in 6 months.
- Judge knocks Confederate emblem, but dismisses flag lawsuit.
- The end of summer means the start of the final stretch for Congress, as lawmakers return to the Capitol with little time left and few incentives to get things done before the November elections. And we’re bracing for a busy September.
- Bad news: Dropbox was hacked, and 68 million passwords were stolen—change yours today.
- Playboy wins copyright battle over web links to its images, which has big potential implications for the internet at large.
- Looking at the human toll of America’s public defender crisis.
- U.S. appeals court dealt a setback to Uber drivers’ cases—meaning they must go to arbitration.
- SCOTUS Blog on the Court after Scalia: The next “conservative” Justice may not save the Second Amendment.
- All eyes are on Chris Christie as trial in bridge scandal starts.
- Court to cops: Residing in a state where marijuana is legal does not automatically make a motorist “suspicious.”
- Rarely used adultery charge still a felony in Idaho—and it’s catching lawmakers in its web.
- Amazon, Google, Alaska Air back Microsoft’s lawsuit against federal government.
- Another failed Zika vote could be the start of a resolution.
- Two laid-off ITT Educational employees file federal lawsuit, after the government’s federal aid sanctions last week forced the school to shutter.
- EPA to shut some Oklahoma wastewater wells after quake.
- McAfee-the-man wants McAfee-the-brand, Chipzilla says no.
- “In remarks last week in Arizona and Colorado, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, President Obama’s two appointees, steered clear of commenting directly on the stalled nomination of his third choice, Judge Merrick B. Garland. But they did talk about how a new colleague could reinforce or disrupt a court that is in some ways exceptionally homogeneous.”
- Examining the economic irregularity of Uber drivers’ hours.
- White House considers ending for-profit immigrant detainee centers, but critics say it could add billions to the cost.
- Who controls the internet? Ted Cruz’s fantasy vs. the reality.
- Robots and red tape: Regulatory uncertainty in Uber’s self-driving bet
- NY Times Room for Debate: Is any immigration reform possible in this political climate?
- Canada’s OpenText to buy Dell-EMC’s enterprise content unit for $1.62 billion.
- As baby boomers gray, law field could face a tsunami of retirements.
- In a vote carried out on Friday night, Univision executives voted to remove six posts published by former Gawker Media properties that are involved in ongoing litigation. You can take a gander at them here.
- New cert petition asks SCOTUS to review employer bans on class actions.