Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every SAD Scheme lawsuit is problematic, though the specific reasons may differ. Each lawsuit creates dozens or hundreds of individual dramas, few of which receive any public scrutiny, and usually comes at the cost of due process and the rule of law. 1:21cv1452 (MSN/JFA), 2022 WL 9874815, at *5 (E.D. ” Ontel Prods.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The court describes the phenomenon: This case is one of many in the Northern District of Illinois’s “cottage industry” of “Schedule A” cases. As of March 2022, over 1,900 such cases had been filed. Few defendants appear in court, so plaintiffs move for default judgment and collect what funds they can.

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Legal IT Group

APRIL 28, 2023

In March 2023, Meta Platforms lost a class action lawsuit against the Dutch Data Privacy Stichting in an Amsterdam court, acting in conjunction with the Consumentenbond, the Dutch Consumers’ Association. Thus, investigating the issue of processing sensitive data for advertising purposes, the court determined in paragraph 13.14

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 5, 2024

This post covers an opinion where the court assumes such vertical integration based on the pleadings (it remains to be seen if that’s actually the case). The court says that Pixels could be “counterfeiting” the Canvasfish online store (?) .” That story is still being written. Trademark Infringement.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 20, 2022

2022 What does “unfair competition” mean from an American legal standpoint? One should note, however, that the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) bans any “unfair methods of competition,” and, according to Supreme Court precedent, any infringement of the Sherman Act, the heart of American antitrust law, violates the FTC Act as well.

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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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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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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 12, 2023

The district court didn’t act on the motions, which acted as a pocket denial. The appeals court reverses, dismisses Hah’s lawsuits, and orders Hah to pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees. The appeals court says that the contract damages allegation was conclusory and insufficient, so that claim fails too.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

I previously blogged this case in 2022. I summarized: This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” The court dismisses them all. The 9th Circuit reverses the district court on the Section 230 dismissal, but it proves inconsequential because all of the claims fail for lack of merit.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Brett Trout

MAY 6, 2024

Brett Trout In 2022, Amazon formally launched its Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) program, billing it as an efficient way to resolve claims when a seller on Amazon is infringing your patent. Finally, if the accused seller files a declaratory judgment of noninfringement, Amazon will abide by the court’s ruling.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

” The court is not impressed with Amazon’s position: the burden is on Amazon as the party seeking arbitration to show that it provided notice of a new TOS and that there was mutual assent to the contractual agreement to arbitrate. The court shreds this argument: That assertion stands the law’s notice requirement on its head.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

The district court said that the buyers who made their purchases on the website had to go to arbitration, but the buyers who made their purchases on their mobile devices could stay in court. The court says it’s immaterial that there is a potentially long time delay between user registration and the purchases. Sadlock v.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. take place.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. The 15 startups with the most votes will get the opportunity to be featured at TECHSHOW, which will be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. 28, 2022, at 11:45 p.m.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

San Fernando Valley Alarm, 2022 Cal. 20, 2022): “Defendant fails to establish applicability of the CDA based on the first element: “the defendant be a provider or user of an interactive computer service.” ” * Doe v. Grant, 2021 Ariz. LEXIS 1327 (Az. Superior Ct. March 31, 2021). Offerup Inc., LEXIS 49865 (Cal.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 20, 2023

After a warning, Amazon again yanked his authoring privileges in February 2022 (the phrases that offended: “many Millennials are woketards” and “Wuhan plague”). The court dismisses the case. In a footnote, the court adds that Amazon’s reservation of rights in its sole discretion may waive the implied covenant.

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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. Superior Court) in third.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 18, 2023

Google The last major decision applying section 301(a) to a breach of contract claim was delivered by the Second Circuit in 2022 in ML Genius v. There are more than 300 opinions by federal courts dealing with the express preemption of contracts, and within them two main approaches have emerged. ML Genius v. A third approach?

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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. We will vigorously defend ourselves against this lawsuit and any claims that are without merit.” Shein is no stranger to lawsuits. What’s Next?

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. At the circuit court level, the law of copyright preemption of contracts is a circuit split-plus, with at least two and as many as four differentiating positions on what might constitute preemption. 2d 426, 433 (8th Cir.1993)

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

Undeterred, on January 5, 2022, Snap filed a federal lawsuit in the Central District of California requesting the federal court to overturn the decision of the TTAB, arguing the “term “spectacles” is an old-fashioned term popular in the 18th century. .”

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. It’s absurd – and, frankly, a little embarrassing for him.”

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Justice tech entered mainstream industry consciousness in 2022 as the social impact side of legal tech, and also of adjacent and interconnected verticals like fintech, govtech, and edtech, which are all creating innovative solutions to the access to justice crisis.

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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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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. We published a report on the 9 best document automation tools for lawyers in 2022.

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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.

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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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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Having entered the second quarter of 2022, more than a few of us are wondering whether to upgrade our productivity toolbox. So we asked our experts: What’s your favorite app or service for staying connected, productive and on target to meet your goals in 2022? Tracking lawsuits. Managing to-do lists.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By broadcasting the game exclusively on Peacock, the League demonstrated their willingness to buck the trend of nationally televising playoff games, similar to how the NFL made Thursday Night Football games exclusively available—as opposed to accessible nationwide on local television—on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.

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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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The Barrister

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

2022, August 2). South Carolina Slip and Fall (Premises Liability) Lawsuits. South Carolina is a comparative fault state, which means that your damages will be reduced by the percentage of fault the court attributes to your actions. Walmart reports around 1,000 customer injuries a day from slip and falls. WHAT AM I ENTITLED TO?

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 30, 2023

In 2022 he was named runner-up for "MOST INNOVATIVE LAW FIRM" by American Legal Technology awards and winner of the 2022 “DATA VALUE AWARD” presented to the leader who has worked to extract large amounts of value from their data and analytics projects. I had asked her … “How does the BD team support the firm’s partners?”

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Simple Legal

JUNE 22, 2023

Event management deals with activities that have a start time, an end time, a location, and invitees like a court hearing or an expert interview. Respondents of Bloomberg Law’s 2022 Legal Ops + Tech survey said the top area where they want “new or improved legal tech” is matter management and, with it, task management.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Justice tech entered mainstream industry consciousness in 2022 as the social impact side of legal tech, and also of adjacent and interconnected verticals like fintech, govtech, and edtech, which are all creating innovative solutions to the access to justice crisis.

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