Parties file final briefs before Supreme Court hears TikTok case

Parties file final briefs before Supreme Court hears TikTok case

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One week ahead of oral arguments in its challenge to a federal law that would require social-media giant TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell it by Jan. 19, the Biden administration filed its reply brief on Friday, urging the justices to allow the law to go into effect. The law, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices, targets the national security risk of China’s potential control of the Beijing company, … Read the rest

The Shakespeare docket: Breyer hears argument on tricks, trysts, and defamation

The Shakespeare docket: Breyer hears argument on tricks, trysts, and defamation

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Presiding over the Corte Suprema di Cassazione on Monday night, Justice Stephen Breyer took the bench for his last case as a 16th century judge before his planned retirement this summer. The spring mock trial at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, “A Hero Defamed? Much Ado About Margaret,” brought before his court a challenge between maid and mistress.

The plaintiff, Hero, was the governor’s daughter on a seaside city in Sicily, and she was engaged to marry the young soldier … Read the rest