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] Only time (and further litigation) will truly tell how liability will apply to ventures like Cruise. 317, 320 (2019). [20] 21] See id. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 29, 2023

This is another lawsuit involving the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs. (Q: In this lawsuit, BAYC sued an “appropriation artist,” Ripps, who sought to comment on anti-Semitic aspects of the BAYC NFTs. Benjamin * How Have Section 512(f) Cases Fared Since 2017? Q: why are the apes so bored?

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Percipient

APRIL 22, 2023

If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. For instance in, In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litig. , 18, 2017) the court refused to shift costs “for time spent arguing. Securities Litigation , Case No.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. Next, from the early 2000s until 2017, the primary legal theory that was used to deter web scraping was the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or the CFAA. And then, in 2017, the famous hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

According to documents Snap has filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Snap has been using the name “Spectacles” in association with electronic publishing services since August 14, 2017, obtaining a federal registered trademark for that use on January 21, 2020 (Reg. 5,964,422).

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 16, 2023

The litigants are an employer and former employee. So does the rest of the employee’s lawsuit. Benjamin * How Have Section 512(f) Cases Fared Since 2017? Universal * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v.

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LawSites

MAY 5, 2021

At least one lawyer is in this pantheon of top-paid publishers on Substack – Glenn Greenwald , the former litigator turned Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. The Expert Witness Newsletter. UK Law Weekly.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” See all my coverage of the Thomson Reuters-ROSS litigation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 11, 2023

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017) This historical novel recommended by Illinois attorney Peter W. The book has received many accolades, including being a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017. Author Naomi Hirahara dedicated 30 years of study to Japanese American history before writing the murder mystery.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). 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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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. 2021); McGucken v.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It may or may not be related to this lawsuit, but Google recently sued “bad actors who set up dozens of Google accounts and used them to submit thousands of bogus copyright claims against their competitors. Benjamin * How Have Section 512(f) Cases Fared Since 2017? Spoiler: Not Well) * Another Section 512(f) Case Fails–ISE v.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Individuals whose personal information was compromised in a data breach have had mixed success in bringing lawsuits in federal court against the companies that held their data. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation , No. TransUnion: A Win for Defendants in Breach Lawsuits? 20-10249, 2021 WL 2250845 (11th Cir.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JULY 13, 2024

2024* On March 21, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which could have significant ramifications on the smartphone ecosystem. This post outlines the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple, and explores potential changes that Apple could make to its ecosystem in light of the litigation.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2017, Google ran into these very issues. Due to the high risk of data re-identification, we might expect litigation against companies innovating in the healthcare realm to be common. However, besides Dinerstein , this space has not seen many other lawsuits.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2017, Google ran into these very issues. Due to the high risk of data re-identification, we might expect litigation against companies innovating in the healthcare realm to be common. However, besides Dinerstein, this space has not seen many other lawsuits.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2025

In the last month, two more copyright lawsuits over city council videos have triggered my alerts. Benjamin * How Have Section 512(f) Cases Fared Since 2017? Universal * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) CaseAutomattic v.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

The Road Not Taken At this point, no lawsuit had been filed; and the dispute probably could have been, and certainly should have been, easily resolved. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd., Copyright Office. Instead, AWF unwisely decided to go on the offensive.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). 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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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Mindgeek litigation, the court certified a class of CSAM victims suing Mindgeek for “knowingly” disseminating videos of them. Marriott * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–GG v. Craigslist * Facebook Loses Jurisdictional Ruling in Texas Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–Facebook v. Twitter, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 5, 2023

We’re still working through the first wave of litigation testing Congress’ poor handiwork. Marriott * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–GG v. Craigslist * Facebook Loses Jurisdictional Ruling in Texas Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–Facebook v. Last October , in Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 16, 2024

WebGroup Czech Republic * Instagram Defeats Lawsuit Claiming It Was a Breeding Ground for Sex TraffickersDoe v. Craigslist * Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against Craigslist Moves ForwardML v. Salesforce * Latest Linkwrap on FOSTAs Aftermath * Section 230 Doesnt End Lawsuit Claiming Facebook Facilitated Sex TraffickingDoe v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2024

Snap litigation. Marriott * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–GG v. Craigslist * Facebook Loses Jurisdictional Ruling in Texas Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–Facebook v. Craigslist * Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against Craigslist Moves Forward–ML v. Salesforce invoked the Fifth Circuit’s Doe v.

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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

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Matt also conducts public records investigations and litigates cases challenging government surveillance. 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. FOX40 (Sep.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JULY 24, 2023

This article briefly addresses this problem, summarizes current local, state, and federal laws enacted or proposed to curtail it, and proposes two solutions for modern employers itching to implement AI-assisted employee management tools but dreading employment litigation. Others do not. This desire is understandable. e.g. , Ryan E.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This is another lawsuit against an Internet access provider (IAP) for user-committed copyright infringement via P2P file sharing. As usual, a key non-litigant is Rightscorp, which sent 1.3M NOCIs to Grande between 2011 and 2017. For more background on this issue, see this rrcap and the links at the bottom of this post.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JULY 11, 2022

In that filing the public statements and of these lawsuits, you saw, we found an increase in the dissents of Enforcement and Removal officers, which had the result of keeping more people detained. Third, OCE suspended the release recommendation for all immigrants in 2017. Professor Koulish] 25:58 Yeah, so the question is, why.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Thus, this lawsuit implicates Section 230’s extraterritorial application, but the court didn’t address this issue. It’s my position that Section 230 equally applies to non-US plaintiffs and defendants if they are litigating in US courts. (If Marriott * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–GG v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Note: Backpage shut down April 2018, but Backpage-related litigation continues into 2025 and beyond]. Salesforce More SESTA/FOSTA-Related Posts * Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over Users CappingMH v. WebGroup Czech Republic * Instagram Defeats Lawsuit Claiming It Was a Breeding Ground for Sex TraffickersDoe v.

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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. If you haven’t been watching the litigation tsunami over Meta Pixels, it’s been a sight to behold. FOLLOW ME THERE! Pixel Cases.

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