Court rejects NRA bankruptcy filing, blocking a move to Texas aimed at avoiding legal peril in New York
Gov. Greg Abbott had welcomed the gun rights organization with open arms, saying Texas ‘safeguards the 2nd Amendment.’
The seal for the National Rifle Association at the 142nd annual convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
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The National Rifle Association’s bid to declare bankruptcy so it could restructure, move to Texas and keep New York state authorities at arm’s length has failed.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the embattled gun rights group had acted in bad faith, using a maneuver intended to protect the fiscally insolvent in order to escape legal perils that bankruptcy law was never meant to address.
Chief Justice John Roberts appeared Monday to be the key vote in whether the Supreme Court considers expanding gun rights or sidesteps its first case on the issue in nearly 10 years. The court’s dismissal of the case would be a disappointment to gun-rights advocates and a huge relief to gun-control groups. Both sides thought a conservative Supreme Court majority. president Nov 10, 2019
Joe Olson was once such a passionate supporter of the National Rifle Association that he pledged to bequeath several million dollars from his estate to the gun organization upon his death. But the steady drip of investigations and misspending allegations and a shakeup at the top ranks of the NRA compelled him to alter his will. The NRA will no.
N.Y. Attorney General’s office discovers astroturf lobbying scheme
FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. The Office of the New York Attorney General said in a new report, Thursday, May 6, 2021, that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of fake comments supporting the 2017 repeal of net neutrality. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has uncovered a massive lobbying scheme attempting to undermine net neutrality regulations put in place in 2015. While the leader behind the scheme is currently unknown, the plan ultimately led computers to generate millions of comments being filed with the FCC by outside firms.
40 State Attorneys General Ask Facebook to Drop Plan for Instagram for Kids, Citing Predators
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Forty state attorneys general across the country have signed a letter calling on Facebook to drop plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids. The attorneys general have an interest in protecting our youngest citizens, and Facebook s plans to create a platform where kids under the age of 13 are encouraged to share content online is contrary to that interest, the bipartisan letter reads.
Issues of concern related to a kids-friendly version raised by the attorneys general included depression, cyberbullying and a lack of understanding of privacy.
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Almost every attorney general in the United States on Monday came out against Facebook s plans to launch an Instagram app for children, citing the technology giant s history of failing to protect children s welfare on its platforms.
The attorneys general from 44 states, including California, where Facebook and Instagram are based, sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him to abandon his plans for the new platform, saying that it would be detrimental to the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of children.
Facebook has been exploring creating a new Instagram platform for children for some time, according to news reports in March based on internal documents.