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It is actually pretty severe. Many retailers around the country, bookstores is a place where people come to browse and shop. Community gathering center. Live put on normal times, lots of other taxable Health Classes we have a coffee house and much of that activity at a stop. Since the spread of the virus in the morning to social distancing. But at the same time, we have been able to carry on some activity largely through web orders and also, at least in general today, curbside deliveries. But even those curbside deliveries have now been curtailed by the government. See you shut down your source here in dc. Bradley yes we finally last week close the doors of all three locatio locations. And we are still doing, online processing or online orders and shipping them as well as taking phone orders and doing curbside deliveries. Minnelli of had to pass of an order that was issued by dc mayor last night, ceased the curbside deliveries. Pe ....
Class action and he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of less action cases. They may have a sense of what his position is on that. Is a graduate of georgetown undergraduate and University Virginia law school where he was and is also the author of the chapter in the Popular Series on claims. So please welcome christopher. [applause]. And her next panelist is a professor himself wrote this book and he is a graduate of merchant notre dame where he was the runnerup valedictorian but he made up for he went to Harvard Law School and he was the top student to graduate in his class. It is a lot easier. And he has been a lawyer and a professor. It is currently at vanderbilt. And we will hear more from him and just a bit. Our moderator today is judge on the ninth circuit, is a ....
The Wilson Center best supporter on the planet, and were giving him a name tag, but welcome michael and welcome everyone else. Im jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center. It is the best job on the planet because i get to talk to geniuses every single day. One of them whos not in my script but im going to call her out, shes going to hide somewhere, is maggie king. Some of you may not know her but she runs our science, technology, and Innovation Program and is responsible for the schools we have on fridays to teach capitol hill staff about cyber and artificial intelligence. And todays genius, that would be ben buchanan, is our go to guy when we teach some of those schools and has been trying to teach me for a while. I think ive been the repeater of all time at some of those schools. Im kind of getting get but ....
Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of ....
To City Lights Book publishers. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us celebrating a very important book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Samuel woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media, assistant professor of the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Samuel woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute ....