Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Smoke in the lungs is a practice problem before it's a treaty problem. If the provinces have fuel loads that behave like warehouses, and our own federal forests have the same problem, the response is thinning, prescribed burning, roads that let a crew in, and a cross-border desk that works when … Continue reading Are Canadian wildfire-smoke events a reason to change cross-border air-quality and forest-management practice, or a weather story being asked to carry a larger climate statute?
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Is the writers’ strike a narrow labor fight over residuals, or an early map of how generative tools will be bargained in other white-collar trades?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — It started as residuals and it won't end there. Streaming already broke the old arithmetic — fewer reruns, thinner backend, a season that's eight episodes and a hope. That fight was coming with or without a paragraph machine. The machine turned a compensation argument into a jurisdiction argument: who owns the … Continue reading Is the writers’ strike a narrow labor fight over residuals, or an early map of how generative tools will be bargained in other white-collar trades?
Should special-counsel appointments for classified-documents and influence cases be reformed so that timing and venue cannot become campaign instruments?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If the calendar of a case can be read like a campaign plan, the office needs a rule that can be read without a jersey. Special counsel was sold as insulation, and insulation that heats up in odd-numbered autumns isn't insulation. Reform I'd defend: charging clocks that don't allow a … Continue reading Should special-counsel appointments for classified-documents and influence cases be reformed so that timing and venue cannot become campaign instruments?
Did the Court’s invalidation of the broad student-loan cancellation program settle the major-questions fight over mass debt relief, or only postpone a legislative version?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — It settled the easy route. It didn't settle the appetite. The holding is that you don't turn a sentence in a 2003 statute about military emergencies into something like four hundred billion dollars because the podium wants a headline. A transfer that size is a bill or it's a stunt. Postponed … Continue reading Did the Court’s invalidation of the broad student-loan cancellation program settle the major-questions fight over mass debt relief, or only postpone a legislative version?
How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If you can scrape a living writer's shelf to build a machine that competes with the shelf, that isn't a book report. Fair use was built for quotation, parody, teaching, a slice. Training a commercial model on a corpus so it can emit the style is a different industrial act, … Continue reading How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Has the end of Title 42 without a replacement statute left cities and border counties with an unworkable mix of parole, asylum backlogs, and shelter demand?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Yes. You took a dam off a river and left the mill race as the legal system. Ending a borrowed tool without writing a real one isn't a return to law. It's a return to the parts of the asylum statute that can't finish a case at volume, plus parole categories … Continue reading Has the end of Title 42 without a replacement statute left cities and border counties with an unworkable mix of parole, asylum backlogs, and shelter demand?
Should Congress write a new deposit-insurance and resolution statute after the spring bank failures, or is existing FDIC practice now sufficient?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — Practice that guarantees everything after the fact isn't a statute. It's a habit, and habits in deposit insurance teach the next treasurer that the cap is a suggestion. The tools handled a weekend. They didn't handle the incentive, and the incentive is now public: a concentrated uninsured depositor in a … Continue reading Should Congress write a new deposit-insurance and resolution statute after the spring bank failures, or is existing FDIC practice now sufficient?
Did the Supreme Court’s decision ending race-conscious admissions require universities to change more than their essays, or will the old process continue under new labels?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — If the only thing that moves is the prompt, the decision got a costume rather than a compliance. The Court said race as a plus factor in the file is out. An institution that meant to comply would have to change the file — how readers are trained, what may be … Continue reading Did the Supreme Court’s decision ending race-conscious admissions require universities to change more than their essays, or will the old process continue under new labels?
Thinking Outside the Boxe Releases Transcript of Independence Day 2023 Champagne Summit
Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. July 5, 2023—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its Independence Day Champagne Summit held in Orlando on July 4, 2023. Participants included correspondents from Dayton, Ohio; Novi, Michigan; Clermont, Florida; and Gastonia, North Carolina. The Summit examined regional-bank … Continue reading Thinking Outside the Boxe Releases Transcript of Independence Day 2023 Champagne Summit
Is the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment on a records theory that requires a federal-election overlay a legitimate local prosecution, or the first attempt to turn a misdemeanor records statute into a presidential disqualification device?
Gastonia, NC A legitimate local prosecution does not need a presidential campaign to explain why a check stub is a felony. That is what has bothered me since Tuesday, and reading the unsealed instrument three times has not made it go away. I read copy for a living, which means I spend my days hunting … Continue reading Is the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment on a records theory that requires a federal-election overlay a legitimate local prosecution, or the first attempt to turn a misdemeanor records statute into a presidential disqualification device?
