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Court Finally Rejects “Discrimination” Lawsuit Against YouTube–Divino v. Google

Eric Goldman

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. When I first blogged this case in January 2021, I wrote: This lawsuit, like many others before it, claims that UGC services like YouTube commit illegal discrimination based on how they moderate content. Vague aspirational statements in YouTube’s mission statement are puffery.

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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster, and on January 24th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing to investigate the case. In 2019 the antitrust division of the DOJ filed United States v. Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.

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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster, and on January 24th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing to investigate the case. In 2019 the antitrust division of the DOJ filed United States v. Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.

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Allegations of a Bribe-Driven Facebook-OnlyFans Conspiracy Unsurprisingly Fall Apart in Court–Dangaard v. Instagram

Eric Goldman

In my previous post , I summarized: This lawsuit involves troubling allegations that Facebook executives ( allegedly , Nick Clegg, Nicola Mendelsohn, and Cristian Perrella) took bribes from OnlyFans-related entities to spike Facebook and Instagram posts that promoted competitors of OnlyFans. The plaintiffs’ allegations were sizzling.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

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They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

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They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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Guest Post: David the Inventor vs. the Biglaw Goliath – What Drives A Goliath To Take On A David?

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This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. A quick summary: at issue is Xcential’s 2019 patent application for a software invention we call “Bill Synthesis” (or, as filed, “System and Method for Document Extraction and Synthesis”). If anyone at Akin Gump wishes to respond, I would be happy to publish it.]. Here comes Goliath.