— Will the attorney who won a $73 million settlement from Remington for nine Sandy Hook families use the same playbook in his legal dealings with the company that made the AR-15-style rifle used in the Texas massacre last month?

Yes and no.

“Of course you look at the precedent, but in any complicated case as grievous and shattering as this, you have to keep your toolkit wide open and look at everything,” said Josh Koskoff, a Bridgeport attorney who last week made national news by calling on rifle maker Daniel Defense to provide “information about its marketing, especially to teens and children” and about the gun company’s communications with the Uvalde shooter. “The Sandy Hook playbook is part of it, but you don’t want to start out with tunnel vision because you can miss what’s right in front of you.”......

Koskoff and a team of Texas lawyers who are representing the parents of a slain Uvalde fourth-grade girl in many ways drew the battle lines last week for a legal fight with Georgia-based Daniel Defense. The parents’ lawyers called on the company to turn over information “relevant to your marketing of AR-15 style rifles to teens and children; to your incitement and encouragement of the assaultive use of these weapons; to your on-line purchase system; and to your communications, on any platform, with the Uvalde shooter; and to your awareness of the prior use of AR-15 style rifles in mass shootings.”.....

In Connecticut, where nine families sued Remington for unlawful marketing of the AR-15-style rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre, Koskoff attorneys were seeking Remington’s internal marketing documents right up to February, when the defunct manufacturer’s four insurance companies offered to the families all they had left after two Remington bankruptcies — $73 million.

Trump is going to go fffffingg nuts. And that is the story here. There is nothing very newsworthy about Time dropping Trump from the 100 most influential people on Earth list.

Once one understands how Time breaks down the list and then reads who Time picked, it is clearly not a real list of the 100 most influential people on Earth. And Trump, as the leader of the Right wing movement in the most powerful and richest nation on Earth is absolutely one of the 100 most influential people. But Time’s breakdown makes the actual premise kind of silly and thus, again, the story is Trump’s reaction that you know is coming.

First of all, Keanu Reeves made the list, Barack Obama and Trump did not. That tells you a lot about what you need to know. Time breaks the list into categories and doing so automatically creates a disparity between real influence and influence in certain areas; The list is broken down into Artists, Innovators, Titans, Leaders, Icons, and Pioneers. Certainly top 100 people can come from any of those categories but given they all have approximately the same number of representatives… you get a situation where Keanu Reeves is on the list but Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Stacey Abrams, or – hell, Justin Trudeau, and Emmanuel Macron are not.

I think the person that will enrage Trump the most though, has to be Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General. Obviously she belongs on the list for many reasons. She’s the first Black woman to serve New York State’s attorney general, and her investigation into Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment claims is one of the things that led to his resignation. But let’s be real. The reason she’s on that list is because she knows Donald Trump is a criminal, and her investigation into his business dealings, might end up being the only justice Trump ever faces.

Elon Musk accused Twitter of “actively resisting” his right to information about bogus accounts on the social media platform and violating the terms of their $44 billion sale agreement, according to a letter sent Monday.

In the letter to the company drafted by his legal team, the world’s richest man reiterated concerns that caused him to pause his bid for Twitter weeks ago, claiming Twitter was breaching obligations to turn over any data he deems relevant to the deal. The Tesla CEO now believes Twitter is “transparently refusing to comply” with the terms they agreed to, “which is causing further suspicion that the company is withholding the requested data due to concern for what Mr. Musk’s own analysis of that data will uncover.”

The move adds to speculation that Musk is trying to wriggle free of the agreement, which comes with a $1 billion breakup fee, though his past tweets suggest he may try to get around that cost. Since he first voiced interest in Twitter in April, Tesla’s stock — the source of Musk’s personal fortune — has been pummeled amid a broader pullback for tech stocks. Last week, he said Tesla would cut salaried staff by 10 percent and put a freeze on hiring, telling executives in an email that he had a “super bad feeling” about where the economy was headed. (Over the weekend, though, he backtracked, saying Tesla’s total head count would increase while salaried positions would be “fairly flat.”)

“We believe this is much more than a threat,” Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, told The Post. “He is trying to bail out of the deal.”