Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“Cruise”ing for “Waymo” Lawsuits: Liability in Autonomous Vehicle Crashes By Caroline Kropka On October 2, 2023, a driverless vehicle traveled down a San Francisco street. [1] 1] The taxi was one of around 950 autonomous Cruise (a robotaxi service owned by General Motors) vehicles operating across the United States by October of that year. [2]

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 28, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Defend Trade Secret Act (DTSA). The DTSA ex parte seizure provision wasn’t designed to be used when there’s already an existing lawsuit between the players. Caliber * Trade Secret Owner Penalized For ‘Specious’ Misappropriation Lawsuit–BTS v.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

the owners of Snapchat and Bitmoji, are also a the self-styled “camera” company, and have been selling augmented reality (AR) glasses under the name “Spectacles” since 2016. Brett Trout Snap, Inc., 87/177,292), but that trademark application has been repeatedly rejected by the USPTO.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2024

I summarized: This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. I previously blogged this case in 2022. The plaintiff, Penny Quinteros (a/k/a TwoCents), claims she became addicted to the game.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” The lawsuit’s lengthy duration and high defense cost has significant substantive implications.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Here’s everything you need to know about the pending lawsuit: Shein’s ‘egregious intellectual property infringement’ is ‘baked into its business model’ The Plaintiffs’ Claims Designer Krista Perry is accusing Shein of selling wall art and phone cases emblazoned with “mechanical cop[ies]” of her original artwork.

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Percipient

APRIL 22, 2023

8, 2016) , the court followed the three-part test used in DeGeer when Volvo sought to have a subpoenaing party pay for requested records. 25, 2016), the court ordered Boeing to help foot the bill for subpoena costs because the subpoenaed party did not have the financial wherewithal to cover them. In Jeune v. Westport Axle Corp.,

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Colin S. Levy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Look at successful contracting approaches for dispute resolution outside your industry, particularly if your past projects resulted in a large number of claims or lawsuits. Get outside your comfort zone Dispute resolution in some industrial sectors is focused on only either litigation or arbitration. Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet K.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 15, 2024

(Long-time readers may recall that this blog had a several-year arrangement with ShutterStock to use their stock photos to illustrate blog posts; that arrangement ended in 2016). Among other concerns, Thompson pointed to blackface photos in ShutterStock’s photo repository in his racial discrimination lawsuit.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

10] Although the initial patent on Humira expired in 2016, thanks to the over 75 patents filed three years before its expiration, AbbVie is set to hold the monopoly until 2034. [11] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5 have over 100 attempted patents per drug. [8]

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 7, 2016

The City of New York, 50 unnamed NYPD officers, and the former NYPD Commissioner are involved in a civil rights lawsuit over allegedly issuing summonses without probable cause, violating the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. 2, 2016) 2016 U.S. Constitution, if true. City of New York (S.D.N.Y.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 25, 2019

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. NEW: We are now Patreon!

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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.).

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Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

JULY 12, 2024

The landscape began to shift in 2016 when the Supreme Court ( O’Bannon ) ruled that the NCAA’s bar on student-athletes profiting from the commercial use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) violated federal antitrust law.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

July 31, 2023) This is a lawsuit over Blue Kai’s alleged keystroke logging on ESPN.com. Bleacher Report also argued that it provided users with notice of amendments in 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2023 via interstitial popups onsite. Those factors counsel towards StubHub settling the court cases and doubling down on the arbitrations.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

When Prince died in 2016, Condé Nast contacted AWF for permission to re-publish the 1984 illustration in a special issue devoted to Prince. Two months later, in November 2016, she registered her copyright in the photograph with the U.S. Fast-forward three decades. Copyright Office. 3d 319, 324 (S.D.N.Y. 2019) (citations omitted).

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 30, 2023

It’s now 2016, I have earned my JD and Winston & Strawn provides me with an opportunity to become one of the first JD/MBA/Data Scientists to work at an AmLaw 100 firm. As part of architecting the solution, we ended up putting together a near-real time database of every lawsuit filed in the US.

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Clio

MARCH 15, 2023

A 2016 class action against a Chicago-based law firm demonstrates the gravity of a breach of this duty. The lawsuit was for an alleged failure to protect confidential client information. Notably, the suit did not accuse lawyers at the firm of inadvertently sharing client information.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). The Facts The facts are relatively straightforward. Neither Time nor BuzzFeed sought or obtained authorization from the photographers to do so.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I wrote a whole paper just about that in 2016–we’re still discussing it 8 years later. The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits. Google was a major player in this lawsuit by proxy. Is This Opinion Good or Bad News for Google?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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.).

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

[Professor Hoofnagle] 39:08 Well, especially around risk lawyering, that is advising clients in situations where someone might have a claim against you, or you might have a client who is engaging in something that could attract a suit, whether they’re actually going to attract a lawsuit or not. So all you’ve got is a lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. While this court might ordinarily suspect that such an assertion was made in jest, there is nothing funny about the dozens of lawsuits which plaintiff has filed against numerous entities which, as the Fifth Circuit noted in Eagle Mountain, were mostly public schools or nonprofits.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The law was passed around 2016. And so when we saw the sharing, we saw this law on the books, we brought the lawsuit against Marin County Sheriff to make sure that they weren’t going to continue sharing this kind of information far and wide. Matt] 23:05 There actually is. There is a great law in California.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JULY 24, 2023

But a]longside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers.” – Stephen Hawking (2016) [2] Two years ago, various news outlets reported that Amazon uses artificial intelligence (“AI”) “not only to manage workers in its warehouses but [also] to oversee contract drivers, independent delivery companies and even the performance of its office workers.”

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Launching January 2022, our AI-driven engine will automate litigation processes like lawsuit and motion drafting, discovery preparation, procedural calendaring and much more by turning days of work into 2-3 minute-long activities. Founded: 3/1/2016. Outside funding: $1M – $5M in outside funding. Headquarters: Dallas, Tex.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Launching January 2022, our AI-driven engine will automate litigation processes like lawsuit and motion drafting, discovery preparation, procedural calendaring and much more by turning days of work into 2-3 minute-long activities. Founded: 3/1/2016. Outside funding: $1M – $5M in outside funding. Headquarters: Dallas, Tex.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. violations; but I also think it’s clear this lawsuit is going to fail eventually. This pernicious business practice emerged around 15 years ago. Eventually, both state legislatures and Congress banned the practice.

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Trial Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Trump, taken June 6, 2016. On Friday, September 30, 2016, Washington, D.C. Regardless of your political preferences, once I heard this news, I knew I had a little work to do. Here is a link to the CNN article.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Around 2016, I spotted a legal opinion that referenced emoticons–something I hadn’t noticed before. Also, in 2016, some academics showed how the “Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes” meant “blissfully happy” in one iteration of Apple’s depictions and “ready to fight” in an earlier iteration.

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Legal Talk Network

JULY 10, 2024

The court has used Chevron at least 70 times to decide cases but has not done so since 2016. Purdue Pharma , the Supreme Court ruled that the Sackler family members could not be protected from civil lawsuits over their involvement in the opioid crisis as part of a bankruptcy settlement.

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lennyesq

MARCH 31, 2025

The order left no doubt that Perkins Coies primary offense was representing Hillary Clinton in 2016 and standing up for other causes Mr. Trump views unfavorably. On March 11, the courageous and skillful law firm Williams & Connolly filed a lawsuit on Perkins Coies behalf, seeking to enjoin the presidents order on constitutional grounds.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

And I think, to me, this really like this technology really dragged the legal industry into, like a similar post truth era that we found politics to be in 2015 2016. But it’s, I don’t know, it’s really a challenge to deal with evidence that just is not what it looks like, or sounds like upon first instance. That’s scary to me.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 28, 2023

And I think, to me, this really like this technology really dragged the legal industry into, like a similar post truth era that we found politics to be in 2015 2016. But it’s, I don’t know, it’s really a challenge to deal with evidence that just is not what it looks like, or sounds like upon first instance. That’s scary to me.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Finally, my Twitter account is still active, but I haven’t posted there in many months. I’ve instead made Bluesky my primary social media home.

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