In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Monday June 5, 2023

First, from terikanefield.com: Mob Lawyers and Trump’s Lawyers
A recent conflict between two lawyers on former President Donald Trump's legal team has come to light. Timothy Parlatore, who had been working on Trump's defense in the stolen documents case, recently left the team after citing irreconcilable differences with Boris Epshteyn, another lawyer who had been hiring lawyers and coordinating their efforts. Parlatore, in an interview with CNN, said Epshteyn tried to block the legal team from getting proper information from Trump, making it difficult to represent him. This could be a result of Trump's legal and public relations needs being in conflict.

Next, from www.washingtonpost.com: Dave Ramsey sued after listeners say they were defrauded by a timeshare-exit company
Dave Ramsey, a well-known Christian financial adviser, is currently facing a $150 million dollar lawsuit from 17 of his listeners. These listeners are accusing Ramsey of promoting a timeshare-exit company that cost them millions of dollars, while Ramsey personally profited from this endorsement. The lawsuit claims that Ramsey was paid up to $30 million from 2015 to 2021 to endorse the company, and that the company collected $200 million in fees from Ramsey’s customers. The lawsuit also names the Lampo Group and marketing company Happy Hour Media Group as defendants. Ramsey has previously defended endorsing the company, although his attorney has downplayed his direct role in the endorsement.

Finally, from zenodo.org: Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
Scholars are once again leaving the popular social media platform Twitter due to its corporate ownership and are in the process of migrating to Mastodon, a decentralized alternative. Scholarly organizations, especially learned societies, are being encouraged to host Mastodon instances to create a public square for scholarly discourse and to safeguard publicly owned scholarly knowledge. This is a golden opportunity for the scholarly community to take control of their discourse.

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Today's paper of the day is Codes of Conduct in the Digital Services Act: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges written by Rachel Griffin and Carl Vander Maelen. The paper discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of implementing codes of conduct in the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). It argues that codes could strengthen accountability and mandate risk mitigation measures, but may also lead to corporate capture and political interference.

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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