#litigation

[worse-than-konstantin-levin]

Puerto Rico Supreme Court recognizes ‘X’ as third gender for birth certificates in landmark decision

Puerto Rico's Supreme Court mandates "X" gender option on birth certificates, a victory for nonbinary individuals.

3rd of June 2025

"Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has mandated that the government include an “X” gender marker on birth certificates in a ruling issued on Monday. A group of nonbinary Puerto Ricans filed the case, and the ruling allows for the representation of those who identify outside of the gender binary."

[saywhat-politics]

Supreme Court opens election litigation floodgates, says any candidate can challenge voting laws

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Supreme Court opens election litigation floodgates, says any candidate can challenge voting laws

Any candidate for federal office may challenge election laws governing their election, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision Wednesday, potentially triggering a deluge of litigation over the counting and certifying of results.

The Supreme Court overturned the 7th Circuit Court in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, which had itself upheld a lower court decision, finding that Rep. Michael Bost (R-Ill.) had standing to challenge a state law allowing for the counting of mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day if they were postmarked prior.*

The court agreed to hear the case only on the question of Bost’s standing, not the validity of his underlying lawsuit against postal voting grace periods. The justices will hear oral arguments on that issue later this year in a separate case challenging Mississippi’s mail voting law.

[thepersonalwords]

We find an abundance of anger and the desire to destroy the opposition in any competitive human environment. Hate sparks contest, and in the modern world, attorneys are the paid gladiators of warring parties. Attorneys are for hire to the highest bidder. Attorneys ply their trade by dealing in the commerce of anger and hatred.

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

[disco-troy]

people need to stop naming their sons with their own names. it makes lawsuits too hard to follow. please name all your children like you’re all going to sue each other one day.

[erebusvincent]

The Domino Effect: Jury Awards $2 Million In First Detransition Lawsuit To Ever Reach Trial

2026 is the year that damage awards change the incentive structures

When there are enough verdicts of enough size, the cohort of youth who began their ‘gender journeys’ a decade ago will begin to clamor for extended statues of limitations themselves. The ex-trans litigant will become a new social contagion, just like the ‘trans child’ has been, as narrative shifts follow incentives. Then watch the same people who agitated hardest for silencing of dissent, for unrestricted access at any age, become the new hot topic of conversation again.

Many people will say that it all seemed right to them at the time, that pediatric sex lobotomy was presented to them as a miracle drug and a kindness to people who are different. They will plead ignorance of the truth at the time, for there was no way to know that the science was not at all ‘settled’, or that the ‘consensus’ was a lie. Had they only known, they will say, then of course they would have been on the right side of history, because they are good people.

They will be liars, of course, but at least they will be forced to stop hurting kids. There is hell to pay and so someone will have to pay it. This is how the American system holds such people accountable. Let justice rain down like waters. Let the liars invent all the new lies they want, as long as they stop hurting kids.

[powerupcomicstonight]

[rysgil]

Facebook sold my data and all I got was this lousy $24

[trash-panda-kitty]

So the DOJ just did a full 24-hour reality flip on whether the entire grand jury actually saw the James Comey indictment.

first it was “no,”

then it was “maybe,”

then it was “yes, absolutely,”

then it was “stop asking questions.”

We are officially in Schrödinger’s Indictment territory.

The DOJ is now both right and wrong until observed.

Schrödinger’s Indictment: The Comey Case Is Now Quantum-Certified Chaos

A tale of prosecutors tripping over their own filings, a grand jury that exists in multiple states of being, and a justice system unraveling