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Section 230 Immunizes Bing’s Search Results–White v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. 2013 WL 664231 (E.D. 2013); O’Kroley v. Among other defendants, he sued Microsoft for Bing search results linking to the episode. 2012); Nieman v. Versuslaw, Inc.,

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0 TikTok bans.

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Recent Developments in Collegiate Name, Image, and Likeness

The Barrister

6] In these dynamic conditions, notable recent news includes: EA Sports is releasing its popular “College Football 25” video game in Summer 2024 – the first release since 2013. The lawsuit is an antitrust claim challenging the NCAA’s rules against recruiting inducements. [8] More than 10,000 of the 1,390 FBS players have agreed. [7]

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How to Make Sure Your Law Firm's Website is ADA Compliant

Centerbase

If it isn’t, you might find yourself party to a lawsuit. Since 2013, the employment law-focused law firm Seyfarth Shaw has tracked the number of lawsuits filed under the ADA each year.  Their data  is striking and indicates that more than 11,400 people filed an ADA Title III lawsuit in 2021—a 320 percent increase since 2013.

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Patents over Patients: How Pharmaceutical Companies use the Patent System to Keep Drug Costs High

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

16] Companies accomplish this by first suing generic-manufacturing companies for patent infringement, and then settling the lawsuit by paying them to stay out of the market in what is known as a reverse-payment settlement. [17] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5

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Ep 032: Kimball Parker, Head of Wilson Sonsini’s New Tech Subsidiary SixFifty

LawNext podcast

Parker also talks about the LawX Lab and its work to develop SoloSuit , an online tool to help debtors respond to collection lawsuits; Parsons Behle Lab, the subsidiary he started for his former law firm, and its GDPR compliance tool; and his first start-up CO/COUNSEL, a legal education and crowdsourcing site.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.).