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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

The year 2008 saw the launches of the first two cloud-based law practice management platforms, Clio and Rocket Matter, followed in 2009 by the launch of MyCase. Yet even though the company is no longer operating, it continues to fight the lawsuit, with its defense and counterclaims funded by insurance coverage. LexisNexis Firm Manager.

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.” Nealy , No.

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Iraqi survivors of Abu Ghraib torture to get day in court as landmark suit against contractor goes to trial –Center For Constitutional Rights

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On June 30th, 2008, four years after images of torture at Abu Ghraib horrified people all over the world, a group of victims filed suit against CACI, the Virginia-based private security company hired by the U.S. post-9/11 torture will get their day in court. government to conduct interrogations at the prison.

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Poland prime minister announces country will suspend right to asylum–jurist.org

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Poland ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1991, and as a Member of the Council of Europe, it is obligated to respect the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights. Articles 2 and 3 of the convention guarantee the right to life and protection from torture.

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Boat Rental Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Offline Boating Accident–In re Chaves

Eric Goldman

Yet, remarkably, the court doesn’t cite the HomeAway case at all. The court cites to L.H. As usual, I cringe at the court’s “conduit” language. As the court make clear, GMB undertakes a variety of trust and safety efforts, so it’s not a typical communications “conduit.”

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Uh-Oh, the Ninth Circuit Is Messing Again With Its Roommates Ruling–Vargas v. Facebook

Eric Goldman

Some possible reasons why: The 2008 en banc ruling functionally became dicta in 2012 when the Ninth Circuit held that Roommates.com never touched illegal content at all. The court responds that Facebook inferred other protected attributes through data-mining. However, it has not benefited plaintiffs as much as I initially expected.

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Two More Cases Compel Arbitration for Dubious Online Contracts (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

And even though the creators of popular services know, and you know, and I know, and the Supreme Court knows , and every judge that decides every opinion on these issues knows, that no one is reading these documents, the legal system has collectively decided this system sufficient to bind everyone to a legal agreement. . See Bruni v.

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