Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

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. Arizona Virtual Law Practice Advertising Ethics Issues The Unauthorized Practice of Law Content Marketing Concerns Social Media And more!

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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. For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

” Lops also had an unsuccessful lawsuit against Facebook. YouTube, LLC, 2023 WL 2349597 (D. March 3, 2023). The post YouTube Defeats Trademark Lawsuit–Lops v. YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Lops v. The complaint.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 9, 2023

” Whether this lawsuit is only about the account suspension or also includes the loss of data access, it winds up as another failed lawsuit over account terminations and content removals. Twitter Corporate Office , 2023 WL 8452200 (S.D.N.Y. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 31, 2023

2023 WL 5493823 (N.D. 23, 2023) The post Lawsuit Over Twitter Suspension Fails Again–Zhang v. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Zhang v. Twitter, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 10, 2023

Represented by lawyers Maria Cristina Armenta and Credence Elizabeth Sol (who keep expanding their oeuvre of failed lawsuits against Internet services), Daniels claimed YouTube had to comply with 1983 because YouTube became a state actor. 2023 WL 2414258 (N.D. Alphabet appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. When I first blogged this case in January 2021, I wrote: This lawsuit, like many others before it, claims that UGC services like YouTube commit illegal discrimination based on how they moderate content. Google LLC , 2023 WL 4372701 (N.D. Case citation : Divino Group LLC v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 24, 2023

The lawsuit claims the BPOs were TikTok’s proxies. The court also allows an exception to the general rule due to the supply of unsafe equipment, i.e., the faulty sorting software for reviewer queues. * * * Similar lawsuits by content moderators have failed, including Garrett-Alfred v. 2023 WL 3484215 (N.D. Cognizant.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 21, 2024

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. Apparently the publication took place in 2019 and he filed suit in 2023. The post Section 230 Preempts Two More Harassment Lawsuits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. ” Defamation. Harassment.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

19, 2023) Selected Prior Blog Posts on Product Shots Copyright Lawsuits Over Product Shots Are Stupid–eTrailer v. FragranceX The post Copyright Lawsuits Over Product Shots Are Still Stupid–SMS v. Pharmaaid appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Pharmaaid Corp. , 1:23-cv-01777-EK-TAM (E.D.N.Y.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Lawsuits over content removals never succeed. The post Anti-Vaxxer’s Lawsuit Over Channel Removal Fails–Mercola v. YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. .” Cites to Lewis v. YouTube , King v. Case Citation : Mercola.com LLC v. Google LLC , No. 3:22-cv-05567-LB (N.D. The complaint.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

To that end, I am giving a couple of public talks on the paper: Tarrant County Bar Association , Texas A&M Law School, Fort Worth, TX, March 27, 2023. 32nd Annual DePaul Law Review Symposium , Chicago, April 14, 2023. Free RSVP! I would welcome yours.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 20, 2023

We used to see lawsuits like this 15+ years ago, but we don’t see them any more because they are so obviously doomed by Section 230. I think he would have certainly owed a fee-shift if the court had applied anti-SLAPP laws. Bradford, 2023 U.S. The post Facebook Easily Defeats Lawsuit Over User Posts–Hicks v.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 13, 2023

State Law Claims. 2023 WL 4475581 (N.D. July 11, 2023) The post Reddit Defeats Lawsuit Over Removal of r/WallStreetBets Moderator’s Privileges–Rogozinski v. Reddit appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Undisputed. Publisher/Speaker Claim. Case citation : Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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. For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

2023 WL 5017711 (D. Where the motion to dismiss concerns questions of law, additional discovery is not required. Therefore, as MindGeek’s motion to dismiss concerns only questions of law, no discovery is required to rule on the motion to dismiss. July 28, 2023). Platkin, 2023 WL 6389744 (D.N.J. LEXIS 851 (Az.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2023, the justice tech ecosystem continued to grow rapidly, with a significant increase in solutions addressing access to justice-related challenges for consumers. featured in ABA Journal , Pulse 2.0 , Bob Ambrogi’s LawNext podcast , and Accelerator Insider , and its executive director, Maya Markovich, was named to the 2023 Fastcase 50.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

March 2023 Update: The recording of this Justia Webinar is now available. 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. PT on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 30, 2024

The court says that Printify took appropriate steps when it learned of infringing items via Atari’s lawsuit: First, Printify searched its own database for the 70 URLs identified by Atari in ECF No. The court summarizes the proceedings: Atari initially moved for an ex parte TRO, which the Court granted on October 24, 2023.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In response, she has brought several trash lawsuits, which have gone as well as you’d expect. Her latest trash lawsuit claimed that social media, the government, and Procter & Gamble were all doing the RICO against her. The court dismisses the lawsuit on several grounds, including res judicata. The complaint.

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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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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 10, 2023

.” For reasons unclear to me, the plaintiff thought it would be a good idea to sue Amazon over its competitors’ alleged misdeeds, going so far to breathlessly issue a press release that it had “filed a $500 million lawsuit against tech giant Amazon.” Amazon appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Clio

AUGUST 16, 2023

IBM Security recently released its 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report. 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. Why should lawyers pay attention to this report on data breaches?

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LLRX

JULY 15, 2023

Four highlights from this week: The potential healthcare privacy risks of ChatGPT; “Shadow libraries” at heart of mounting copyright lawsuits against OpenAI; Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data; and Cooper Davis Act Would Force Tech Companies to Flag Users for Drugs.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. Fyk’s alleged injury has no connection whatsoever to any conduct by the United States, the only defendant in this lawsuit. His efforts to blow up Section 230 keep generating 230-favorable law. 2023 WL 3933719 (D.D.C. June 9, 2023).

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Indeed, they are already filing lawsuits despite the pending Supreme Court appeal hanging over the law. The plaintiffs may have to sue in California if the law survives Constitutional scrutiny. 2023 WL 8434452 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is yet another online content removal lawsuit, and it reaches the obvious and inevitable result that dozens of cases have reached before it. The lawsuit against Facebook for refusing the film ads is an easy dismissal. The only question at issue is whether the lawsuit treats Facebook’s refusal as a publisher/speaker action.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 19, 2023

Instead, this becomes another banal entry in the ever-growing pile of failed account termination and content removal lawsuits. 2023 WL 5318464 (9th Cir. August 18, 2023) The post Ninth Circuit Easily Dismisses Account Termination Case–King v. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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. Schedule A Defendants , 2023 WL 8310347 (S.D. Why not 10,000?

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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. In Fall 2023, the district court asked the plaintiffs to provide a proposed Fourth Amended Complaint (FAC). Two of those cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 12, 2023

The BBB entities successfully invoked NY’s anti-SLAPP law. Bureau, 2023 N.Y. March 3, 2023) Prior BBB Posts BBB Defeats Defamation Lawsuit (After 7 Years)–Better Way v. BBB Is a Website “Published” for Copyright Law Purposes?–Rogers BBB appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2023

This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. But the commerce clause was not intended to nationalize the whole of America law.” Discovery Communications LLC , 2023 WL 3335417 (Fla. Yandex Inc.,

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Vogel IT Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

BankInfoSecurity.com reported “Google reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged the tech giant had misled consumers about their privacy protections when using the private browsing Incognito mode of its Chrome web browser.” ” Since +95% of all lawsuit settle without trial this is no surprise! .”

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), cloud computing, and data analytics, present both challenges and opportunities for law firms and in-house legal departments. For law firms, the question centers on how to deploy these tools without undermining the billable hour model that underpins profitability.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 27, 2023

.” They challenged California AB 587 , California’s mandatory editorial transparency law that, among other unreasonable and onerous requirements, requires regulated social media entities to disclose statistics in 161 different categories. Mandatory transparency laws reliably chill speech in exactly the way the court describes.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It is likely to affect how lawyers practice law, and it will also have legal implications that impact society more broadly. A recent report for the Law Society of England and Wales put forth the concept of lawyers switching from hourly billing to charging for billable units of attention. How does neurotechnology impact the legal field?

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