Ariela Gross

Memorandum & Opinion – #136 in Upsolve, Inc. v. James (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-00627) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS AND ORDER: For the foregoing reasons, the defendant's motion to dismiss with prejudice (Dkt. 121) is granted. Plaintiffs' motion to reinstate the prelimin...

Last week, the 2nd Circuit upheld NY’ s ban on the provision of legal advice by non-lawyers, even to people who have no ability to pay for a lawyer and reversed the lower court decision that held the 1A granted the right to provide advice in these circs. 🧵

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm very excited to share that my first law review article, Settler Retrenchment, is forthcoming in the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review! Thanks to many friends, mentors, and colleagues for thoughtful feedback and comments.

Here's the abstract. Draft coming soon to SSRN.

UCPD keeps 40 mm projectiles, launchers despite LAPD crowd-control ban - Daily Bruin UCPD will keep 40 mm projectiles and launchers in its arsenal of military equipment, though LAPD is banned from using them for crowd control. The department will not use the weapons for crowd control ...

dailybruin.com/2026/02/26/u... You hate to let a good military grade weapon go.

Florida man

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... He was the successor executor in Epstein’s will. I can’t even.

Came here to say this

Who could make this shit up

Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...

www.mpr.org/stories/2026... Support local journalism, especially public radio that’s been devastated by this administration.

Good morning. This is where we are in 2026.

And there should be a gigantic animatronic William T. Sherman marching down the field burning things

Thank you!

Hahahaha

Faster than you can say “strongly worded letter”…

In Santa Barbara, California, an ICE goon point-blank sprayed a woman with pepper spray while she was filming. The woman required medical attention for a potentially pierced eyeball. 1/28/26

This is beyond disgusting.

An Open Letter to the Minnesota Law Community Seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.

Today, we share an open letter from seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty addressing the federal government’s ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.

Drawing by 5 year old held in concentration camp in Texas by Trump Administration. It’s a pencil drawing of 4 stick figures with frowns behind a chain link fence depicted by a dozens of vertical and horizontal lines. Written in child-like letters, it says “Let us go” and “I am 5 years old.”

Here is the child’s drawing.

Massive union overseeing Border Patrol demands ouster of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller A massive union that represents some of President Donald Trump's immigration agents called on two of the administration's top officials to resign following the killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis o...

“Our demand is clear: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem... and Deputy WH Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them" AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement.

www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...

Columbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President

Columbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/n... Congrats Jennifer!

No “thank you for your attention to this matter!” ?

Kahn is in charge of the headlines right? “it appears” and “administration says”? I wish he got the message!

I was struck today by this from Abigail Adams (writing to John in September of 1776), by the statue of her that stands at Quincy (MA) common

He was in my 1L class at law school - ghoul back then as well. He had to transfer out because he was so hated by his classmates.

Abolish ICE. Filibuster murderers.

Filibuster murderers.

… (not to mention the 14th Amendment). Universities: will you be reversing your bad decisions? 5/5

affinity groups, academic programs, and chilling academic speech and research. Now the Administration has dropped their appeal of the federal court ruling because they know they had NO CASE. Their so-called “anti- DEI” initiatives violated the First Amendment and the APA…

— shutting down diversity initiatives, telling admissions interviewers not to even discuss applicants’ experiences of racial discrimination or disadvantage with them (looking at you, Harvard), shutting down women’s and LGBTQ centers and health initiatives…3/

… to civil rights, access, inclusion, and equality for people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and women. Instead, universities rushed to comply in advance with the Trump Administration’s false, bad faith war on “DEI”…2/

ED Drops Appeal of Order Blocking Anti-DEI Guidance First Amendment advocates and higher ed leaders are declaring victory, and some say it’s the “final defeat” of Trump’s attempt to rid colleges of race-based student supports.

We TOLD you they were wrong on the facts and the law and would lose in court. We TOLD universities to stand firm on their commitments…1/? www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...