Rob Vincent 🎙️<p>RT @aurbelis@twitter.com, re: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HackerRadioShow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HackerRadioShow</span></a></span> :</p><p><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/wbai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBAI</span></a> Update --Things are very much unsettled-- The portions of the TRO that are vacated mean that Pacifica is no longer prohibited from seizing property, preventing broadcasting, and interfering with WBAI's affairs. </p><p>But questions remain...</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/aurbelis/status/1182347526143393793" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/aurbelis/status/11</span><span class="invisible">82347526143393793</span></a></p><p>The portion of the TRO that remains means that Pacifica cannot terminate <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/wbai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBAI</span></a> employees, like the General Manager. If the General Manager's duties are to direct programming, how can the GM do that if Pacifica controls the property and the transmitter?</p><p>The decision seems legally backward: TROs prevent irreparable injuries. Irreparable injuries are harms that money cannot compensate. <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/wbai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBAI</span></a> employees are paid with money. Therefore, if employees could be made whole with money, they are not irreparably harmed if fired in error.</p><p>On the other hand, forcing <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/wbai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBAI</span></a> off the air, eradicating local programming, seizing critical station property, disrupting fundraising, and the listener confusion that results from Pacifica using WBAI as repeater -- that is all irreparable harm!</p><p>There is another court conference about Pacifica's contempt happening right now, but that seems mostly moot because <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/wbai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBAI</span></a>'s TRO was mostly vacated.</p><p>However, the hearing on the underlying Petition remains: that by shuttering <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/wbai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBAI</span></a>, Pacifica violated its bylaws and violated rights to free expression. Given today's ruling, that date is likely to be sooner than 18 October. </p><p>The fight is not over by any means. Stay tuned.</p>