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Notices by Kunal Mehta (legoktm@mastodon.technology)

  1. Kunal Mehta (legoktm@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 05-May-2022 11:31:12 UTC Kunal Mehta Kunal Mehta

    Created a new #Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_leaks

    In conversation Thursday, 05-May-2022 11:31:12 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink

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    1. List of United States Supreme Court leaks
      The United States Supreme Court typically keeps all deliberations and draft opinions private until a single slip opinion in a case is officially released as an initial start to the publication process. Occasionally news leaks of private deliberations or draft opinions happen. 1800s In 1852, ten days before the justices announced their ruling, the New-York Tribune published the decision in Pennsylvania v. Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company. When the case returned to the Court two years later, the Tribune published the ruling ahead of time again.The Tribune also published details of deliberations in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case, with Justice John McLean suspected of being the leaker. Early 1900s Ashton Embry, a clerk of Justice Joseph McKenna, was indicted by the Department of Justice in 1919 for leaking pending decisions to Wall Street traders, including a railroad patent case. No insider trading laws existed then, so Embry was charged with depriving “the United States of its lawful right and duty of promulgating information in the way and...
  2. Kunal Mehta (legoktm@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:45:34 UTC Kunal Mehta Kunal Mehta
    in reply to
    • brennen

    @brennen jumping off the Rust bandwagon for a second, I totally agree with your take on language choice. Your post reminds me of what someone from Etsy said (paraphrased, possibly misremembered) at one of the Wikimedia dev summits: People only pick PHP when they're accidentally going to change the world c.f. Wikipedia, Facebook, WordPress.

    In conversation Monday, 10-Jan-2022 21:45:34 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
  3. Kunal Mehta (legoktm@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:08:08 UTC Kunal Mehta Kunal Mehta
    in reply to
    • Blake C. Stacey
    • brennen
    • Chris 🌱
    • Daniel Glus

    @danielhglus @brennen @bstacey @brainblasted shrug, MediaWiki's impact on the world is too great to care about code quality tbh, it certainly has its warts, but at least we can slowly make it better.

    In conversation Monday, 10-Jan-2022 18:08:08 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
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