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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. ROSS Intelligence.

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

Above the Law - Technology

But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product. The lawsuit forced ROSS to shut down its operations , which it did effective Jan. “So that’s what led me here.”

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

Eric Goldman

In 2014, Medina sued Microsoft. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The trial court anti-SLAPPED that lawsuit. The court says that the 2020 ruling didn’t require publishers to depublish the extant versions of the 2014 documents, so this argument had a faulty premise. Hearst case.

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Ill-Advised Attempt to Blow Up the DMCA Online Safe Harbors Unsurprisingly Fails–Athos v. YouTube

Eric Goldman

These uploads have irritated Athos since 2014. This does make me wonder about Athos’ choice to double-down on the old-fashioned takedown notices, costing lots of time and money, to preserve the lawsuit option. And wouldn’t getting on the fast-lane later still been better than bringing a doomed lawsuit like this?

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Courts Are Rejecting Attempts to Weaponize Laws That Protect Consumer Reviews

Eric Goldman

In 2014, California enacted AB2365 , sometimes called the “Yelp law,” codified at Cal. I don’t know how many lawsuits they’ve filed because the team is filing many (all?) Civil Code 1670.8. The law prohibits businesses from suppressing consumer reviews (on Yelp or elsewhere). enforcement campaign.

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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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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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