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A fair reminder to keep online personal and public matters as far apart from each other as possible! Thanks for the roundup of today's decisions and orders! : )

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I LOVE RALSEI OMG

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As others here point out, strictly separating personal and official accounts is a surefire way of staying clear. But in practice most people take a unitary view of their persona, which makes it psychologically difficult to "switch hats." I've seen this in business particularly in a large financial institutions with dozens of legal entities having differing rules where trying to determine the legal parties to a transaction was nearly impossible. Since people are not going to carry around two cell phones, generally, a useful feature would be a business set of accounts and visual cues that could be switched to the personal set.

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My son was one of several plaintiffs in Chicago who recently won a similar case — I believe he initiated it — against their alderman. This is a nice affirmation!

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The opinion appears to be a short, crisp discussion that was unanimous. It is a sign of what a good opinion should be like. And they managed to show up for it.

The other one handed down today was a more divisive extended statutory dispute that the two opinions sparred with each other over for sixty plus pages. Kagan v. Gorsuch, both of whom will not give an inch when they are fully into a battle.

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In other words, if you're an elected public official with a

"public offial" Facebook page

and have a personal Facebook page, ita good idea to keep your comments

carefully relegated to each page. And watch your blocking as a public official.

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"different actions actions" <- error in article

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