Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

In June 2022, an Amtrak train carrying 200 passengers derailed in Missouri. Less than four hours later, attorney webpages geared toward crash victims and their families were popping up, and in less than 24 hours, law firms were announcing retained clients and new lawsuits.

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APRIL 17, 2024

ClaimScore, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help detect fraudulent claims in class action lawsuits, has closed a $3.15 Founded in 2022, ClaimScore says it is the only software product dedicated to resolving the problem of claims […]

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OCTOBER 28, 2023

AP) — A West Virginia school district has passed a policy mandating annual religious freedom training as part of a lawsuit settlement after an evangelical preacher held a revival assembly during the school day in 2022 that some students were required to attend. By Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Read more…

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LLRX

JANUARY 21, 2023

Four highlights from this week : Apple Faces Third Class-Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Problems; Will Europe’s Privacy Bill of Rights Ever Truly Be Enforced?; Cybersecurity High-Risk Series: Challenges in Establishing a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Strategy and Performing Effective Oversight; and How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy.

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Law Technology Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

When The Markup reported in August 2022 that several hospitals were sharing patient data with Facebook via the “Meta Pixel,” it set off alarms among privacy regulators and plaintiffs’ attorneys. Over 18 class-action lawsuits have been filed against hospitals and counting, alleging they are sharing health data via online trackers.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Lloyd sued Facebok for a variety of claims (I initially described the suit as “a standard kitchen-sink pro se lawsuit against Facebook”). The district court dismissed the complaint in 2022. This summer, the Ninth Circuit largely affirmed , but it revived the contract breach claim for procedural reasons.

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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. Why not 10,000?

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Vogel IT Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

NOT A SURPRISE SINCE 95% OF ALL LAWSUITS SETTLE that Computerworld.com reported that “While details of the settlement have not been disclosed, Google’s lawyers, reportedly, maintain that the internet giant did not violate Bates or Singular’s patents in any manner.” The January 25, 2024 article entitled “Google settles $1.7 to touch $227.6

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CloudNine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A recent Arcadis study highlights a 42% surge in construction lawsuits in North America from 2021 to 2022, attributing this spike to ongoing COVID-19 effects, supply chain woes, and escalating material costs.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 30, 2023

Under the CCPA, it’s clear that what happens in California doesn’t stay in California. A new report from Akin shows that companies reporting data breaches are increasingly at risk of CCPA enforcement action or litigation.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

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MARCH 31, 2023

O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas ruled Thursday in a lawsuit filed by six individuals and two businesses, including Braidwood Management Inc., O’Connor gave nationwide effect to his former September 2022 decision on the validity of the task force that adopted the mandates under the Affordable Care Act. District Judge Reed C.

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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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Legal IT Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And it was only in 2022 that Meta Platforms’ earnings report recognized the first year-over-year decline in advertising revenue in the company’s history, a trend that is expected to continue due to global economic issues affecting the digital advertising market as well.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 5, 2024

In the Sid Avery lawsuit, Pixels ultimately won at trial that it was not sufficiently vertically integrated for copyright purposes, so we’ll see if the judge’s tone changes on summary judgment. March 1, 2024) Related posts * Atari’s Lawsuit Against a Print-on-Demand Service Fizzles Out–Atari v.

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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. Earlier, the UK court dismissed another class action lawsuit against Facebook for incorrect calculation of damages.

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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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Clio

AUGUST 16, 2023

This report studied 553 organizations that experienced data breaches between March 2022 and March 2023 to help IT, risk management, and security leaders understand the impact. This can include a loss of trust in your firm and malpractice lawsuits. Why should lawyers pay attention to this report on data breaches?

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 12, 2023

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. To be deploying gag contracts in 2020 and suing over them in 2022 is bonkers. Matter of Public Concern.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 20, 2022

2022 What does “unfair competition” mean from an American legal standpoint? By Caio Nunes, LL.M. The answer should be simple, but it most definitely is not.

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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.

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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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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. The accused infringer is much more likely to file the lawsuit in their own state or a state with courts more favorable to their position.

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Martindale-Avvo

AUGUST 11, 2023

Martindale-Avvo presents TGILF, our bi-weekly news flying around the legal community: Federal judge addresses a ‘burning’ legal question: does the phrase ‘attorney fee’ require an apostrophe and an ‘s’? The post Thank God It’s Legal Friday with MA | August 11 appeared first on Martindale-Avvo.

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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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Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

As of January 4, 2022, it is estimated that sales of BAYC NFTs have surpassed one billion dollars. In July 2022, Yuga Labs, Inc. filed a lawsuit in California claiming Ryder Ripps et al. has misused trademarks owned and used by Yuga Labs since April 2021 (the BAYC Marks). Continue Reading →

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CloudNine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A recent Arcadis study highlights a 42% surge in construction lawsuits in North America from 2021 to 2022, attributing this spike to ongoing COVID-19 effects, supply chain woes, and escalating material costs.

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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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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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The Barrister

MARCH 18, 2024

7] Microsoft stock image The NCAA halted its investigations into third parties creating NIL deals with collegiate Division I athletes after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia. 2022-2023 Division I Manual § 12.5.2.1(2022), 2022), available at [link]. [2]

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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 plaintiff, Penny Quinteros (a/k/a TwoCents), claims she became addicted to the game. She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions.

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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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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.” Offerup Inc., LEXIS 49865 (Cal. Superior Ct. July 28, 2023). OfferUp qualifies for Section 230 again. Superior Ct.

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Technology Law Dispatch

AUGUST 1, 2023

The SEC first proposed new cybersecurity rules back in March 2022. While these lawsuits will undoubtedly continue to be filed, some commentators believe the presence of these additional disclosure requirements may lead to improved and enhanced focus on cybersecurity risk management and disclosure.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

” The court then says that the lawsuit is outside the scope of the 2016 TOS because it doesn’t relate to the contract. .'” Thus, “For the drivers’ continued performance of services to constitute assent to be bound by new 2019 terms, Amazon needed to show that it actually provided notice of those terms.

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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”). Nevertheless, Amazon restored his authoring ability based on his promise to comply with its review policies. You can imagine how well that went. The court dismisses the case.

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. In the most recent 2022 reporting , Brownstein maintained the top position on K Street, leaving behind Akin Gump at number two and Holland & Knight (the firm now representing Xcential in D.C. If anyone at Akin Gump wishes to respond, I would be happy to publish it.].

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