Lowering the Bar

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Mar 28, 2024	PA State Senator Piles Into The Chemtrail Ban Clown Car, Announces Dumbass Bill Of His Own	Earlier this week, we covered a truly insane and insane bill being pushed by the Tennessee State Senate that vowed to ban something that actually isn’t happening and, indeed, has never happened. Stapled to rote effort to ensure the state’s ...
Mar 25, 2024	Tennessee Senate Votes To Ban Chemtrails Because What Even The Fuck	Look, I’m nearing 50. I’ve been around. I have seen some absolute clown shit from politicians. I have witnessed years of things like “bridges to nowhere” and self-aggrandizement taking the form of renamed airports or whatever. I have seen a...
Aug 3, 2022	Virginia Politicians Are Suing Books They Don’t Like	Civil asset forfeiture has shown us the government has a weird way of instigating lawsuits. In rem forfeiture cases allow government agencies to file suits against objects, rather than the people they’ve been seized from. This leads to some...
Mar 23, 2022	Qualified Immunity Denied To Officer Who Tased Man In The Genitals	A Glendale (AZ) police officer (now former police officer… more on that in a bit) isn’t going to be able to walk away from a civil rights lawsuit stemming from excessive force he deployed during a routine traffic stop. An Arizona federal co...
Aug 21, 2020	Washington Court Says First Amendment Protects Teen's Emoji-Laden Rant About Her Mother	Via the wonderfully entertaining law blog Lowering the Bar comes this interesting First Amendment case involving teens, texting, true threat discussions, and a judicial examination of emojis.
Apr 19, 2017	Court: No Immunity For Federal Agent Who Made Elderly Woman Stand In Urine-Soaked Pants For Two Hours While He Questioned Her	The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has affirmed a lower court’s stripping of a federal officer’s qualified immunity in a… moon rock sting case. This is a thing. Relatives and friends of NASA personnel have received what they believe are gifts ...
Nov 5, 2015	TSA: Terrible At Security But Finally Willing To Work On Its Problems	The TSA’s inability to live up to the “S” in its acronym is on display again. The agency’s Inspector General recently testified before a Congressional oversight committee. Fortunately, no one stepped forward to shoot the messenger — seeing ...
Aug 20, 2015	Irish Airport Security Bravely Defends Plane From Toddler's Fart-Gun	Here at Techdirt, we’ve had a great deal of fun at the expense of the TSA and the agency’s wonderful brand of security theater masquerading as actual airport security. Yes, the government putting on a kind of clinic in the simultaneous over...
Aug 3, 2015	TSA Decides Sorority Souvenir Book Carried By Dozens Of Travelers Probably A Bomb	Hundreds of travelers attempting to fly out of Houston’s Hobby Airport were delayed for hours as TSA agents confronted the massive security threat posed by a book. Actually, several books. Several identical books. Carried by several fliers ...
Mar 27, 2015	TSA Waves Convicted Murderer With Explosives Experience Through Its PreCheck Lane	The TSA’s PreCheck program also expedites security screening for “notorious convicted felons” and “former domestic terrorists.” Who knew? From the sounds of its in-depth pre-screening efforts, you would think (unnamed) convicted felons woul...
Oct 9, 2014	John Oliver Takes On The US Government's Legalized Theft Programs, Asset Seizure And Civil Asset Forfeiture	“Last Week Tonight’s” John Oliver is again taking an entertaining swing at a subject that has made its way into Techdirt’s pages: asset seizure and forfeiture. Going beyond the “robbery at badgepoint” (Cory Doctorow’s term) to civil asset f...
Oct 3, 2014	TSA Kangaroo Court Rubber Stamps TSA Fining Guy Who Stripped Naked, Completely Dismissing Court Ruling Finding It Legal	A couple years ago, we wrote about a guy named John Brennan (who, we’re pretty damn sure is not the John Brennan who is now director of the CIA) who decided to strip naked at a TSA screening area in an airport to protest the screening proce...
Jul 8, 2014	LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN	The Los Angeles Police Department has obtained tons of data over the past several years and that amount of data increases exponentially every year. In addition to its criminal databases, it also collects thousands of license plate time-and-...
Dec 13, 2013	TSA 'Security Fee' Expected To Double Next Year, Current Level Of Ineptness To Remain Unchanged	The TSA, having earned every bit of its ~$8 billion/year, is now looking for just a little bit more. As Kevin Underhill at the ultra-enjoyable Lowering the Bar blog notes, the “security fee” that’s been tacked onto tickets is about to incre...
Nov 8, 2013	Government Asks Court To Bar Opposing Lawyer From Calling It 'The Government'; Hilarity Ensues	Reader Willard Seehorn sends in a fantastic example of both ridiculous government requests in a legal matter, as well as one of the best snarky responses to such an overreach. It starts with a Tennessee state Assistant District Attorney Gen...
Mar 7, 2013	7-Year-Old Student Suspended For Waving Around A 'Gun' Made From A Pastry	So, it’s come to this. Oh, wait. I’ve already used that opening, back when I thought the pinnacle of guns-n-schools overreaction had been approached, if not actually surmounted. Let’s start again.
Jul 2, 2012	Charles Carreon Keeps Digging & Digging: Inman And IndieGoGo Hit Back	Well, they don’t call it the Carreon Effect for nothing. The lawyer who keeps on digging has decided to… keep on digging. Last week he filed an amended complaint pretty quickly after his original complaint — specifically with the goal of ad...
Jun 18, 2012	Charles Carreon Sues Matthew Inman… And The Charities He's Raising Money For	Update: The full details of Carreon’s lawsuit are now public, and they are just as nonsensical as you’d expect.
Sep 8, 2011	Kellogg's Stakes Claim To Toucans, Mayan Imagery; Issues Cease-and-Desist To Guatemalan Non-Profit	When it comes to preventing “morons in a hurry” from mistaking “Unrelated Product or Service X” for “Unrelated Product or Service Y,” no one seems to be quicker on the draw than large corporations with nothing to lose but a public relations...
Dec 10, 2009	Bow-Wow-Wow-Yippie-Yo-Yippie-Yea Is Infringing, And Fair Use Won't Save It	This one came out about a month ago, and I’d been ignoring writing about it because it was too frustrating (even though we wrote about the case earlier). But people keep submitting it, so we might as well dig in. This particular case involv...

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