<p>DOCKET ALERTS:</p><p><br></p><p>Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier is <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">getting paid</a> $50,000 a semester to teach a single class at University of Florida’s law school. </p><p><br></p><p>The Trump Administration finally obeyed the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.648842/gov.uscourts.paed.648842.64.0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">court order</a> and put the exhibit on enslaved people back at President’s House in Philadelphia.</p><p><br></p><p>The Supreme Court has decided to eliminate corruption by asking litigants to<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2026_Rules_Revisions.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> add their stock ticker symbols</a> to filing disclosures. Oh, you thought maybe the justices would agree to stop trading individual stocks? LOL.</p><p><br></p><p>And a JAG lawyer sent to help out the US Attorneys Office in Minnesota got cited for contempt after ICE responded to a habeas order by dumping a Minnesota man on the street in El Paso without his identity documents. Judge Laura Provinzino <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72221590/soto-jimenez-v-bondi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ordered</a> the lawyer to pay $500 per day until the petitioner got his ID back.</p><p><br></p><p>MAIN SHOW:</p><p><br></p><p>In California, Judge Sunshine Sykes issued a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210.116.0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">major benchslap</a> to the Trump administration’s claim that it can — or must! — detain immigrants who haven’t been granted permanent residence. In December, she granted class certification and <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210.94.0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ordered</a> the government to give everyone <em>not</em> detained at the border a bond hearing. The government ignored her ruling, based on a decision by the immigration courts housed inside the Justice Department. Separation of powers, how does it go?</p><p><br></p><p>And Andrew and Liz talk about two “surveillance” issues: commercially-aggregated data tracking our every movement and “dynamic” pricing.</p><p><br></p><p>The Supreme Court first started considering surveillance in <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3066032366235422373" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>US v. Jones</em></a>, 565 U.S. 400 (2012) and endorsed the “mosaic theory” of the Fourth Amendment in <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=853695326923033538" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Carpenter v. US</em></a>, 585 US 296 (2018).</p><p><br></p><p>Sens. Lujan and Merkley have co-sponsored the <a href="https://www.lujan.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MUR26086-1.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 2026</a>. Gizmodo recently ran a <a href="https://gizmodo.com/dems-want-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-at-big-grocery-stores-2000722182" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">story</a> about it, referencing prior research into dynamic pricing.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Florida’s attorney general gets $100K part-time teaching job at UF</p><p><a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Soto Jimenez v. Bondi</p><p><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72221590/soto-jimenez-v-bondi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72221590/soto-jimenez-v-bondi/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Matter of Yajure Hurtado</p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1413311/dl?inline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1413311/dl?inline</a></p><p><br></p><p>Maldonado Bautista v. Noem</p><p>https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70895584/lazaro-maldonado-bautista-v-ernesto-santacruz-jr/</p><p><br></p><p><em>US v. Jones</em>, 565 U.S. 400 (2012)</p><p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3066032366235422373" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3066032366235422373</a></p><p><br></p><p><em>Carpenter v. US</em>, 585 US 296 (2018)</p><p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=853695326923033538" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=853695326923033538</a></p><p><br></p><p>Text of the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 2026</p><p><a href="https://www.lujan.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MUR26086-1.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lujan.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MUR26086-1.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p>Show Links:</p><p><a href="https://www.lawandchaospod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lawandchaospod.com/</a></p><p>BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod</p><p>Threads: @LawAndChaosPod</p><p>Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.</p>