litigation - The Handbuilt City

Movements & Organizing Government Law

“I Thought It Would Be Worse,” said a Detroit cop of a protest last year. “I Wanted More.”

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, chief james craig, civil rights, CS, Detroit, detroit east side, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit police, detroit police chief james craig, detroit police department, detroit west side, detroit will breathe, documentary, federal lawsuit, george floyd, george floyd protests, george gorman, gratiot avenue, james craig, james demps, jon talbert, kate levy, kate levy documentarian, lawsuit, less lethal bullets, litigation, mariah erard, mayor mike duggan, mcnichols rd, mike duggan, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police violence, riot control, riot gear, rosa parks transit center, rubber bullets, tear gas, todd bettison

CONTENT WARNING: The 22-minute video and the clips I’ve taken from it below include some disturbing and extremely graphic imagery,

Business & Economics

Trying To Bump Up Those Margins? Have You Considered… Stealing?

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon prime, AMZN, billionaires, copyright infringement, customer reviews, customer service, ecommerce, everyday sling, jeff bezos, litigation, millionaihs and billionaihs, peak design, peak design everyday sling, reviews, shopping, stealing, theft

Amazon has a long and sordid history of stealing the designs of companies that sell on its platform– and making their products themselves, to be sold at a lower price. One company decided to troll them in response.

Public transit Cities & Urban Planning

Why Do Airports Not Want Us To Have Nice Things?

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, accessible transit, airport parking, airport revenue, airports, autonomous vehicles, big blue deck, buses, Detroit, detroit airport parking, detroit metro airport, detroit michigan, detroit wayne airport, disruptive innovation, donald shoup, DTW, DTW ground transportation, DTW transit options, DTW transportation, high cost of free parking, litigation, louis armstrong airport, MSY, new orleans, new orleans airport, parking and the city, parking revenue, public transit to detroit airport, self-driving cars, signage, tampa, tampa airport, tampa florida, TPA, transit, transit accessibility, transit to DTW, wayne county

Detroit’s airport has historically had some problems with accessibility, especially to transit. This is a problem, because of the airport’s reliance on parking revenues. But there are some options!

Politics Public Safety Law

Taxpayers Spend Hundreds of Millions Per Year On Police Brutality Settlements. That Money Could Be Better Spent.

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 538, 911, 911 calls, amelia thomson-deveaux, black lives matter, corktown, damini sharma, Detroit, detroit will breathe, detroit will breathe lawsuit, fivethirtyeight, hulk hogan gawker lawsuit, hulk hogan lawsuit, laura bronner, lawsuit, lawsuits, litigation, nate silver, new york city, nonviolent crimes, police abolition, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police lawsuits, police reform, police violence, police violence lawsuits, settlement, settlements, springfield mass, violent crimes

A new article from FiveThirtyEight looks at the staggering sums of money taxpayers are liable for in police brutality lawsuit settlement in 31 American cities. The data are unsurprisingly incomplete, and unsurprisingly appalling.

Business & Economics

How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation

July 20, 2020July 21, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bankruptcy, coronavirus, corporate debt, corporate finance, corporate subsidies, corporations, covid, debt, equity, executive, executive compensation, finance, Ford, general motors, Hertz, JC Penney, litigation, Neiman Marcus, Pacific Gas & Electric, private equity, reaganomics, retail, retail apocalypse, shareholder value, shareholders, spending a lite fitty, stock market, stock market crash, stocks, stonks, tax, tax policy, Whiting Petroleum

IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s

Business & Economics Culture & Language

Liability in the Age of Easy, Profitable Destruction

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments big oil, big pharma, big tobacco, business, ethics, fentanyl, finance, gun control, gun deaths, liability, litigation, opiates, opioid crisis, opioids, oxycodone, oxycontin, philosophy, purdue pharmaceutical, responsibility, war on coal

Early on the morning of July 16th, 1945, in the middle of an uninhabited desert halfway between the remote cities