Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I wrote an expert declaration about them in 2021). The court says that the merchant made a descriptive “fair use” of the “emoji” term, but the court didn’t actually say that “emoji” qualifies as a descriptive trademark, instead of an arbitrary mark, for stickers.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

This paper explains the scheme, how it bypasses standard legal safeguards, how it’s affected hundreds of thousands of defendants, and how it may have cost the federal courts a quarter-billion dollars. This paper traces its origins to my 2021 expert declaration in an Emojico case. Have a stress reliever toy handy when you read this.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. But courts don’t always use facts like that for petard-hoisting, instead grounding their rulings in legal doctrines and admissible evidence. Yet, the court bails YouTube out.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. Twitter, produced Supreme Court rulings last year. In light of that conclusion, the court declined to rule on the parallel Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v.

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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. Courts have widely rejected claims that AI models themselves are unlawful derivatives of the copyrighted works they were trained on. [3]

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. Hierl was the lead counsel on the Emojico case I opined on in 2021.] * * * Jurisdiction The defendant Bigfinz sells t-shirts. The court says “none of Bigfinz’s t-shirts were sold in Illinois.” TIL: Roblox regularly uses the SAD Scheme.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

See all stories about this lawsuit. district judge in Delaware but who last month became a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — sided with ROSS. ” As to whether TR’s lawsuit against ROSS was, itself, sham litigation, Judge Stark concluded it was not. 31, 2021. Judge Leonard P.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On January 4, 2024, the North Carolina Justice for All Project (JFAP) filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the state of North Carolina claiming unlawful infringement upon their fundamental right of free speech to provide simple legal advice to North Carolinians. But this, of course, is not the end to JFAP’s story.

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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. In the spring of 2021, he relocated to Montana and revamped his contracting business. ” The court cites Force v. A series of other negative reviews followed.

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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

Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Previous LawX projects have resulted in the development of SoloSuit , to help consumers respond to debt collection lawsuits, and which spun off as a private company , and Hello Landlord , designed to help tenants more effectively communicate with their landlords about issues that can lead to eviction. Addressing Downstream Data.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

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”). 19-cv-3195 (JEB), 2021 WL 106417 (D.D.C.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Public access to court data through automated collection of online court records is a fundamental First Amendment right and it is critical to meaningful access to the United States legal system. The recent ruling in South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Savoy, 2021 N.C. July 28, 2021). Grant, 2021 Ariz. March 31, 2021). Facebook, 2021 Cal. June 21, 2021). 2019) (“As courts uniformly recognize, § 230 immunizes internet services for third-party content that they publish, including false statements, against causes of action of all kinds.”). Superior Ct.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 7/6/2021. From launch, we closed our first customer in December 2021. Founded: 4/1/2021. We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Headquarters: New York, N.Y.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 29, 2023

Paul Davis is a lawyer and a self-described “ J6er ,” i.e., a participant in the January 6, 2021 U.S. The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. Capitol insurrection. This ruling primarily deals with venue.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A major NFT case was decided on February 8, 2023 as the French luxury fashion house Hermès won the MetaBirkins lawsuit against the artist, Mason Rothschild. Tell me more about the MetaBirkins lawsuit Hermès had filed suit against Rothschild for his MetaBirkins project in the U.S. So what happened? What does this verdict mean?

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. Superior Court, to claim an Xcential invention as its own and to throttle us for, among other allegations, misappropriation of trade secrets. Superior Court in October. We now have multiple court dates on our calendar in the new year. The Holy Grail? Here comes Goliath.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Supreme Court TransUnion decision. 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. June 25, 2021) will likely create new uncertainties. This is Part 1 of a two-part article on the recent U.S.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

In November of 2021, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), the body responsible for hearing trademark disputes with the USPTO, issued a ruling siding with the Examiner in rejecting Snap’s trademark application.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 13, 2021

Supreme Court TransUnion decision. On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a significant opinion on standing in the context of consumer class actions in TransUnion LLC v. The Supreme Court affirmed that certain members of a class action lacked standing—and therefore could not be members of the class. The Opinion.

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Centerbase

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Because of this, it has fallen to the courts to determine how the ADA applies to websites. The courts have looked to Title III of the ADA, which requires that every owner, lessor, or operator of a “place of public accommodation” provide equal access to users who meet the ADA’s standards for disability. population has a disability.

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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. Supreme Court.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Nonetheless, we can foresee future legal battles, even class action lawsuits, arising in this arena. In 2021, the Chilean government enacted a constitutional amendment protecting brain activity and data. Employment law Employers may come to see neurotechnology as a tool to enhance productivity and monitor employee performance.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Earlier this month, three artists initiated a lawsuit against Stability AI, DevianArt, and Midjourney, which are some of the leading A.I. The lawsuit alleges copyright infringement because these companies have been using images of the artists’ work to train their programs to produce similar work without their consent.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 4, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on February 25, 2015, that state regulatory boards, composed mainly of active market participants, are not immune from antitrust liability unless actively supervised by the state government. Soon after, in June 2015, LegalZoom cited the Supreme Court decision on teeth whitening in a $10.5

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

In 2021, an application was filed to the US Copyright office, for copyright registration of a comic book consisting of text and images (created partly by a human and partly by AI tool “ Midjourney ”). The term “person” has also been interpreted conservatively by the Courts in respect of copyright law.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Currently, existing projects like these are authorized across the country through state supreme court administrative orders or the Utah regulatory sandbox.(2) who help self-represented litigants in state courts.(9) who help self-represented litigants in state courts.(9)

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 7/6/2021. From launch, we closed our first customer in December 2021. Founded: 4/1/2021. We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Headquarters: New York, N.Y.

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 30, 2023

He was named a finalist for both 2021 “LEGAL INNOVATOR” and "INNOVATIVE LEADER OF THE YEAR”. Amy went on to describe that one way that her team does this is by subscribing to a variety of different news sources that monitor every time a lawsuit is filed in state or federal court.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.” Nealy , No.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Starting in 2021, the defendant posted the forms to its website. Distribution The court says “the Forms were accessible at the URLs that plaintiff located. ” However, the court says the plaintiff has to allege actual downloading, not just the mere possibility. As such, defendant made the Forms available.”

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

My observations about the Supreme Court’s 2.5 Determining a statute’s actus reus and mens rea is standard fare for the Supreme Court. First, the court must translate the statutory scienter requirement into a sentence in English, and judges routinely disagree on the translation. hours of Supreme Court oral advocacy.

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