Random News and Notes 6 June

We all know about the big historical item for today. It got its own post. Here are some other historical items of note.

• 1865- William Quantrill, Confederate raider and outlaw, dies in a Union POW camp. Among his followers was one Frank James. Frank’s younger brother would join them a year later.
• 1889 – A fire ignites in a Seattle woodworking shop and sweeps through some 100 acres, destroying much of the city’s business district and waterfront. The Great Seattle Fire culminates in losses estimated at $20 million.
• 1918- The first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War I begins in Belleau Wood, northwest of the Paris-to-Metz road. U.S. Marines under General James Harbord and Allied forces led the attack against the four German divisions positioned in the woods and by the end of the first day suffered more than 1,000 casualties.
• 1933- On June 6, 1933, eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds of Camden Drive-In, the first drive-in movie theater, located on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey.

Now News!

The retards acted up in front of the Delaney Hall ICE facility. Overnight clashes erupted at the GEO Group-operated facility in Newark, New Jersey, housing about 1,000 immigration detainees who began a hunger and labor strike in late May.

Federal officials like Border Czar Tom Homan dismissed the complaints after visiting and eating the meals, while more than 90 arrests occurred for violations including curfew breaches and resisting officers.

The kids are alright. At least some of them:

The video captures the kids geeking out over the Even Embers Tactical Propane Torch, a $99.99 tool for campfires, grills, and brush burning that shoots flames 12 to 24 inches from standard propane tanks.

I’ll be heading to Tractor Supply. . .

I mentioned baseball and pride month yesterday, well there is more news about it today. The Dodgers held their 13th annual pride night last night. Most of the players wore caps with a rainbow highlight. But not reliever Blake Treinen. When he entered the game in relief.

Treinen earned the win after a scoreless relief appearance in the 11th, following rookie Roki Sasaki’s 10-strikeout gem, as LA swept the Angels.

SCOTUS dropped a couple of opinions Thursday. Nothing particularly earthshaking, but still.

In FCC v. AT&T (and a related Verizon case), the Court ruled 8-1 (Chief Justice Roberts writing the majority, Justice Thomas dissenting) that the FCC’s process for issuing monetary forfeiture orders for telecom violations does not violate the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. The orders aren’t final judgments that conclusively determine legal rights, so companies can still demand a jury trial if the government sues to collect.

In Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., a unanimous opinion by Justice Jackson held that Amarin failed to plausibly allege that the generic manufacturer actively induced infringement of its patented uses (a “skinny label” case). Merely marketing a generic version and referencing public info wasn’t enough without affirmative encouragement of the patented use.

In Sripetch v. SEC, the Court (opinion by Justice Gorsuch) addressed SEC disgorgement, ruling that the agency doesn’t need to show pecuniary loss to investors to obtain such awards.

Like I said, nothing huge. I do – as a non-lawyer -wonder about the first one. The other two seemed pretty cut and dried to me, to the point that I wonder how the lower courts erred so much.

There are still quite a few, between 20 and 30, cases left to be decided this term. Some are fairly important ones like Trump v. Barbara (Birthright Citizenship), Trump v. Slaughter (and related firing power cases like Trump v. Cook), and several voting/election law cases.