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Section 230 Applies to Publication of Court Documents–Medina v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

In 2014, Medina sued Microsoft. Microsoft’s filings made some unredacted disclosures about Medina that were repeated in an unredacted court opinion, and those documents appeared on several websites that publish court documents. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. Hearst case.

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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

Above the Law - Technology

“So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. . federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. In a typical year, most courts maintain a schedule for submission of new rules and changes to existing rules.

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With $5M Investment, PacerPro Expands Into State Courts, Hires Silicon Valley Veteran As CTO

LawSites

Multiple pieces of news today from PacerPro , a company that enables law firms to automate the workflow around distributing and capturing federal court filings. As she steps into this new job, an immediate priority will be directing PacerPro’s expansion into state courts. I first wrote about PacerPro in 2014 for the ABA Journal.

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Arizona Licenses First Three Alternative Business Structures for Delivering Legal Services

LawSites

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August. Court order approving application.). Court order approving application.).

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

It started in 2014 at the University of Toronto as a student-built entrant in a cognitive-computing competition staged by IBM to develop applications for its Watson computer. (You can find my full series of posts about Bluford here.) ROSS Intelligence. There is, however, a somewhat happy ending to the story of Gavelytics.

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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.” 1962 (2014).

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