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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Eric Goldman

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM.

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Another Doctor Learns Why It’s Unwise to Sue Patients

Eric Goldman

The district court didn’t act on the motions, which acted as a pocket denial. The appeals court reverses, dismisses Hah’s lawsuits, and orders Hah to pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees. The appeals court says that the contract damages allegation was conclusory and insufficient, so that claim fails too.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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The Supreme Court TransUnion Case: Part 2—What It Means for Efforts to Defeat Class Certification?

Debevoise Data Blog

Supreme Court TransUnion decision. On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a significant opinion on standing in the context of consumer class actions in TransUnion LLC v. The Supreme Court affirmed that certain members of a class action lacked standing—and therefore could not be members of the class. The Opinion.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. At the circuit court level, the law of copyright preemption of contracts is a circuit split-plus, with at least two and as many as four differentiating positions on what might constitute preemption. 2d 426, 433 (8th Cir.1993)

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