Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram. Further, in recent years the DOJ and the FTC have taken a more aggressive approach to antitrust laws against technology companies that may signal a new era of antitrust enforcement.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 8, 2024

In 2020, the plaintiff learned that “Defendant was using Plaintiff’s Marks in online tamale advertisements and in Google AdWords, which placed Defendant’s products above Plaintiff’s products in search results for the phrase ‘Texas Tamale.'” 1-800 Contacts * Amazon Defeats Lawsuit Over Its Keyword Ad Purchases–Lasoff v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

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. The appeals court affirms.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. 6] Despite these challenges, plaintiffs are not slowing down, and new lawsuits were filed at a steady clip over the course of 2024.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. The defendants have not yet filed an answer in the lawsuit.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report finds that, beginning in March 2020, courts adopted technology at unprecedented speed and scale, initiating online hearings and moving other routine functions online, such as electronic filing. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021. Unprecedented Adoption of Technology.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

See all stories about this lawsuit. ” As to whether TR’s lawsuit against ROSS was, itself, sham litigation, Judge Stark concluded it was not. TR filed its lawsuit in May 2020 , alleging that ROSS stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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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] 8] See Distracted Driving 2020 , Nat’l Highway Traffic Safety Admin. 54 (2020). [27] Times (Oct. 2022), at 1. [9] 9] Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Andrew J.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 24, 2021

In June 2020, SHRM surveyed over 2,500 workers and human resources managers in the United States about discrimination at work. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, retaliation is annually the most common Title VII charge , comprising over 55% of all charges in 2020. There Is Discrimination at Work.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The court summarizes the plaintiff’s allegations: Plaintiff alleges that in October, 2020, he received a negative review on Nextdoor from a former customer. Because the removal of content is a traditional editorial function, Section 230(c)(1) bars plaintiff’s lawsuit.” A series of other negative reviews followed.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 12, 2023

In 2020, he performed procedures for four patients, Chesson, Gage, Melton, and Robinson (tragically now deceased). The appeals court reverses, dismisses Hah’s lawsuits, and orders Hah to pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees. For his failed lawsuits, Hah will be writing checks to the defendants’ attorneys.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 27, 2024

This is a false advertising lawsuit again the mobile app game Game of Thrones: Conquest. Also, the district court took issue with the 2020 call-to-action referring to the TOS as “Terms of Use” when it was actually the “Terms of Service.” sought to send the case to arbitration. The district court disagreed.

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MAY 5, 2021

Greenwald cofounded the publication The Intercept in 2013, but left in October 2020 to publish independently on Substack. In her day job, she is 2020-2022 Equal Justice Works fellow in the Elder Justice Program. Written by Apoorva Gupta , a law student in India, it has published only five times since November 2020. legal system.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

2020), the Second Circuit purported to reaffirm that “the discovery rule applies for statute of limitations purposes in determining when a copyright infringement claim accrues under the Copyright Act.” .); and Justices Scalia and Thomas have criticized the expansive use of the discovery rule as a “bad wine of recent vintage,” id. Thomas, J.).

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants may perform tasks such as sorting or filing documents, preparing appointments and calendars, including trail schedules, and contacting clients and all other parties to lawsuits. A legal assistant may also help with legal research , writing legal papers, and more, not whatever is required. But they are not the same.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Twenty former federal law enforcement and national security officials filed an amicus brief in the SEC’s fraud lawsuit against the IT company SolarWinds, which was hit by a massive 2019-2020 breach.

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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. Traction: We have 30+ solo and small law firm subscriptions since coming out of a soft launch in December 2020.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The online retailer jumped in sales from $10 billion in 2020 to $100 billion in 2022, surpassing the sales of both Zara and H&M combined. In 2020, Perry created and copyrighted a design called “Floral Bloom” for throw blankets. We will vigorously defend ourselves against this lawsuit and any claims that are without merit.”

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LawSites

AUGUST 10, 2021

Zach Posner cofounded The Legaltech Fund in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. But even with that industry focus, he takes a broad view when it comes to what he considers legal tech, looking for startups that have “legal in the middle,” but that may also span fintech, govtech, or consumer tech.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Puppies, 2020 Ariz. 28, 2020): There are facts from which a jury could determine that Defendants created and/or developed website content making the immunity under Section 230 of the CDA inapplicable and thus summary judgment is not appropriate. .” LEXIS 851 (Az. Superior Ct. ” * Defense Distributed v. ” * M.K.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 15, 2024

In 2020, Facebook banned them as hate speech when the images “caricature” black people. ” Today’s case involves the racial discrimination complaints of Thompson, an African-American employee at the photo repository ShutterStock, especially in the emotionally raw aftermath following the 2020 George Floyd murder.

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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

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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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

billion on warranty claims worldwide, and in 2020, they paid $10.72 If a lawsuit is filed, iPAT provides guidance on settlement offers, including civil penalties and attorneys’ fees. When iPAT does reach the market, it will be available only in California to begin, but LegalEase plans eventually to roll it out in all 50 states.

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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. Smith, Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict , Stanford University Press 2020. Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet K. Martinez, Stephanie E.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 23, 2024

And almost without exception, those legal agreements require users of digital platforms to waive their right to a jury trial, a class-action lawsuit, and various other civil rights. Doe declares that, on January 26, 2020, she was sexually assaulted during a massage at the San Jose franchised location.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 15, 2024

Court granted Facebook’s anti-SLAPP motion in lawsuit over “publication/de-publication to developers via the Facebook Platform API”: Plaintiff’s app depended on Facebook’s publication of third-party user’s photos to developers through Facebook’s Platform. .” Six4Three v. Facebook , CIV 533328 (Cal. Superior Ct.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report finds that, beginning in March 2020, courts adopted technology at unprecedented speed and scale, initiating online hearings and moving other routine functions online, such as electronic filing. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021. Unprecedented Adoption of Technology.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

It was sometime around April 2020. An enterprising law firm seeking to file a class-action lawsuit took up Amazon on their arbitration clause offer and generated thousands of responses to that clause, requesting arbitration. It all started with my wife and a pandemic. The shutdown had closed our city. Schools were silent.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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Centerbase

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

If it isn’t, you might find yourself party to a lawsuit. Since 2013, the employment law-focused law firm Seyfarth Shaw has tracked the number of lawsuits filed under the ADA each year.  Their data  is striking and indicates that more than 11,400 people filed an ADA Title III lawsuit in 2021—a 320 percent increase since 2013.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 16, 2021

billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over false 2020 election fraud claims, in which Farnan is Delaware counsel. . Stephen Shackleford , partner with the law firm Susman Godfrey in New York City, told me that he recommended PacerPro to Farnan in connection with his representation of Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over false 2020 election fraud claims, in which Farnan is Delaware counsel. . Stephen Shackleford , partner with the law firm Susman Godfrey in New York City, told me that he recommended PacerPro to Farnan in connection with his representation of Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6

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