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This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, a free speech case that will determine whether former Georgia Gwinnett College student Chike Uzuegbunam is entitled to nominal damages from an unconstitutional government policy when that policy has since been changed. “Arguably there is no more important constitutional law case that has come up before the court in the last several years from a philosophical standpoint,” Sarah says on today’s podcast. After our hosts discuss the legal mechanics of nominal damages and attorneys’ fees, they dive into Parler’s latest legal filings and the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.
Show Notes:
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-Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski case and oral arguments.
-“A Eulogy for a Friend, a Lament for our Nation” by David French in The Dispatch.
-New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett.
-“Are We the Baddies?” sketch.
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Another episode where David and Sarah bring the best legal analysis with the dodgiest pronunciations...thanks much!
(And...enjoy all the e-mail?)
Seriously, I greatly enjoyed the nominal-damages discussion, and it was really well done. Reminded me of why I loved law school so much.
AWS isn't being very accurate when they say they "don't host Twitter". In fact, there was a press release issued on 15 December about how AWS was now providing the bulk of cloud services to Twitter now. Twitter is AWS's 10th largest customer for EC2 services (on-demand servers), to the tune of $8m a month. So AWS doesn't "host" Twitter exactly, but were they to cut them off, Twitter would have to work very quickly and take a big hit as their system became very unreliable.