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

Above the Law - Technology

In 2015, they secured $4.3 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.

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Facebook Easily Defeats Lawsuit Over User Posts–Hicks v. Bradford

Eric Goldman

We used to see lawsuits like this 15+ years ago, but we don’t see them any more because they are so obviously doomed by Section 230. “The mere fact that Facebook had the ability, in 2015, to provide additional information about other users’ content is not sufficient to show that Facebook did so here.”

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Don’t Free Fall on the Duty to Preserve

Joshua Gilliland

Determining when a party “knew or should have known that litigation was imminent” is often a free fall into analyzing the facts of when a party had notice of a lawsuit. 23, 2015, No. CIV-14-899-D) 2015 U.S. Threat of a lawsuit in business is another matter. The duty to preserve is a tricky beast. Wethington v.

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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

The entire purpose of the discovery rule is to allow a plaintiff to recover damages that occurred more than three years before the date the lawsuit was filed. He served one prison term from 1989 to 2008, and another from 2012 to 2015. Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v. MGM Domestic Television Distribution, LLC , 39 F.4th

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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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Court Chips Away at Privilege Protections for Cyber Forensic Reports

Debevoise Data Blog

District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiff Guo Wengui’s motion to compel production of a report (the “Report”)—and related materials—prepared by forensic vendor Duff & Phelps in Guo’s lawsuit against the law firm that formerly represented him, Clark Hill, PLC (the “Firm”). 14-2522, 2015 WL 6777384 (D.

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

Legal Tech Monitor

In 2015, they secured $4.3 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.

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