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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down. Gavelytics. million in funding.

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

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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SAD Scheme Cases Are Always Troubling–Betty’s Best v. Schedule A Defendants ?

Eric Goldman

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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Print-on-Demand Services Face More Legal Woes–Canvasfish v. Pixels

Eric Goldman

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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Schedule A (SAD Scheme) Plaintiff Sanctioned for “Fraud on the Court”–Xped v. Respect the Look

Eric Goldman

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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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In July 2022, the FTC also blocked Meta from acquiring a small virtual reality startup. By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. Break them up.”

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Cruiseing for Waymo Lawsuits: Liability in Autonomous Vehicle Crashes

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

“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] 18] Because Japan was the appropriate forum, the court did not have authority and had to dismiss the case.

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