Ep 216 — Zuck and Musk Get Pantsed In Court … Twice

DOCKET ALERTS:

Anthropic got its injunction against the Department of Defense and Pete Hegseth's designation of the company as a supply chain risk.

Elon Musk lost a shareholder class action suit in California over sh*tposts he made when he was trying to get out of buying Twitter. He demands a new trial because the jury made a 420 joke, and everyone knows that only he is allowed to do that. Meanwhile in Texas, X Corp lost a lawsuit against a bunch of Fortune 500 companies for daring to take their business elsewhere

Trump housing goon Bill Pulte is back on his BS, trying again to get someone to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, this time for insurance fraud.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that there will be hell to pay if he doesn't ditch the Rooney Rule.

And Minnesota law enforcement and prosecutors sued the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security for blockading the evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and Alex Pretti.

MAIN SHOW:

The Eighth Circuit joins the Fifth in endorsing ICE's fakakta interpretation of the mandatory detention statute.

Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg loses in two courts — just like Elon/Twitter! In New Mexico, a jury ordered the company to pay $375 million in lawsuit brought by the state over unfair trade practices. And a jury in California awarded $6 million to a woman who became addicted to social media as a little girl and suffered serious emotional consequences.

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For seven months, the DOJ told a court that ICE had revised its policy on arrests inside courthouses, including immigration courts. Only … they hadn't. Now a federal judge in New York is on the warpath, and DOJ is trying to make sure that DHS takes the fall.

Trump housing chief seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-housing-chief-doj-new-york-letitia-james-pulte

Anthropic Injunction

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.134.0.pdf

X Corp v. World Federation of Advertisers

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69017972/x-corp-v-world-federation-of-advertisers/

Pampena v Musk

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65412803/giuseppe-pampena-v-elon-rmusk

Florida AG Uthmeier tells NFL to end diversity-promoting 'Rooney Rule'

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/03/26/florida-ag-uthmeier-tells-nfl-to-end-diversity-promoting-rooney-rule/

Minnesota v. DOJ

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72590076/state-of-minnesota-v-us-department-of-justice/

African Communities Together v. Lyons

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70993525/african-communities-together-v-lyons

Avila v. ICE (8th Cir. mandatory detention) [docket via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca8.113186/gov.uscourts.ca8.113186.00805482414.3.pdf

State of New Mexico v. Meta (NM state investigation of Facebook)

https://nmag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-12-05-NM-v.-Meta-et-al.-COMPLAINT-REDACTED.pdf

Smith v. TikTok (CA state lawsuit against social media addiction)

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/social-media-lawsuits-kgm-motion-denied.pdf

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