In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Monday May 22, 2023

First, from www.businessinsider.com: Twitter Exec Quit When Told to Install Illegal Locks That Risked Lives
Six former Twitter employees have filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of putting employees' lives at risk with illegal locks and heaters in Twitter headquarters' bedrooms. The lawsuit alleges that Joseph Killian, the company's former global head of construction design, was instructed to install cheaper, noncompliant locks and electric heaters that would not open in case of a fire. Killian reportedly quit after arguing that the locks would put lives at risk, and the heaters would increase the risk of a fire due to noncompliant electrical work. Twitter has yet to comment on the allegations.

Next, from www.nytimes.com: Timothy Parlatore, Former Trump Lawyer, Describes Conflict Inside Legal Team
Former President Donald J. Trump's legal team is in disarray after Timothy Parlatore, one of his former lawyers, spoke about his resignation on a CNN broadcast. According to Parlatore, his decision was due to differences with Boris Epshteyn, another lawyer on the team. He stated that Epshteyn had hindered him and other lawyers from getting information to the former president, making it harder to defend him against the Justice Department's scrutiny. Parlatore also accused Epshteyn of trying to prevent the team from conducting additional property searches for classified documents. Jack Smith, the special counsel in charge of the inquiries, is reportedly close to a decision on whether to file indictments against Trump.

Finally, from drive.google.com : Foreword. In Vesting, T. Subjectivity Transformed: The cultural foundation of liberty in modernity.

Thomas Vesting's new book, "Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in Modernity," is a deep look into the nature of wellbeing and agency, and how government and law can advance and secure them. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology and more, Vesting creates a dual taxonomy of personhood and legal personhood. He argues that any legal conception of personhood must come from conceptions of personhood latent in a society or culture, and that freedom is a matter of the functional differentiation of different spheres of action. His book examines how modern personhood is a joint enterprise, and that legal personhood must promote modern personhood's creativity and social nature to yield prosperity.

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Today's paper of the day is What 21st-Century Free Speech Law Means for Securities Regulation by Helen L. Norton. This paper provides an analysis of how the Free Speech Clause Doctrine of the US Supreme Court has influenced the regulations of securities law in this 21st-Century. It considers how this doctrine could dismantle the securities law framework that has been in place since the Great Depression and the public-regarding goals this framework achieves, such as stabilizing and efficient markets, and encouraging corporate accountability. The paper argues that securities-related speech should be considered as its own category of unprotected speech, and that the regulation of such speech is consistent with the Court's longstanding tradition. Additionally, it addresses the possibility of the Court turning to the commercial speech doctrine to assess the constitutionality of securities law.

For a link to the paper and much more, check out our show page. As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.

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