Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

For example, I remain irritated about the BIPA lawsuits to try to prevent Internet services from using anti-CSAM blocklists and face scans for age authentication purposes. Selected BIPA Blog Posts AWS Can’t Shake BIPA Lawsuit for Providing Services to NBA 2K–Mayhall v. Amazon Facebook Defeats BIPA Face-Scanning Lawsuit–Zellmer v.

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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. After 8 years of litigation, the case ends on essentially a procedural technicality (an important one, but still…). 2024 WL 3331649 (N.D. Google Inc.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Understanding Litigation Finance Litigation finance is when a third-party invests in a lawsuit in hopes of sharing in the profits of a successful verdict. litigation finance companies exist. billion in capital to litigation matters. billion in capital to litigation matters.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 12, 2024

In the last year, a team of California litigators (from Singleton Schreiber in Sacramento and Law Offices of Thomas Leary from San Diego) has launched 1670.8 I don’t know how many lawsuits they’ve filed because the team is filing many (all?) Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC, 2024 WL 1122415 (C.D. 2024 WL 1430251 (C.D.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Advertisements have become a powerful tool for plaintiff lawyers specializing in mass litigation, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Latest Ad Boom: Lawyers Seeking Plaintiffs for Mass Litigation” published in January 2024. Notably, spending peaks coincide with specific cases gaining momentum.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Warby Parker, part of 1-8oo Contacts’ irrepressible efforts to revive the litigation genre. I hope this ruling will be persuasive to other courts so that we can finally and permanently put this chapter to rest after 2+ decades of pointless litigation. the dollar value of the clicks at issue is well below the costs of litigation).

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. It’s expected to go live in Q1 of 2024.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

” “Plaintiff’s timing in filing and dismissing its lawsuit suggests an improper purpose… Plaintiff’s delay in filing the TRO undercuts its supposed urgency, suggesting instead that Plaintiff timed its filing to sideline its competitors during a busy sales season. That’s unacceptable. Emoji GmbH v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

There are hundreds of pixel lawsuits in the courts right now (and surely more to come after a ruling like this). This sounds like the recipe for an infinite litigation machine. If all pixels and cookies could give rise to litigation, the obvious solution would be to get user consent to place them.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In my previous post , I summarized: This lawsuit involves troubling allegations that Facebook executives ( allegedly , Nick Clegg, Nicola Mendelsohn, and Cristian Perrella) took bribes from OnlyFans-related entities to spike Facebook and Instagram posts that promoted competitors of OnlyFans. Instagram, LLC, 2024 U.S. LEXIS 171462 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 14, 2024

My previous summary of this litigation campaign: His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. Fyk argued that the law regarding anticompetitive animus had changed during his 6-year-long litigation quest, citing the Enigma v. 2024 WL 5074905 (9th Cir. The Supreme Court denied cert.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The FTC is also holding a virtual summit on January 25, 2024 to discuss key developments in AI and how those developments impact competition and consumers. Litigation Risks In addition to regulatory scrutiny, companies also face the prospect of civil litigation regarding misrepresentations relating to their use of AI.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

You may have heard about Squishmallow’s recent lawsuit against Build-a-Bear over plushy knockoffs. That would collapse the FRCP 65’s restriction on binding non-litigants who have not been subjected to judicial process. 19885566 Store, 2024 WL 532290 (S.D.N.Y. 9, 2024) Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme N.D.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 24, 2024

I’d love to see an accounting of the time and money the parties have spent on this litigation. Gutman , 2024 WL 172609 (2d Cir. 17, 2024) Selected Related Posts : Who Owns Social Media Accounts? Nankivell Court Declines to Dismiss or Transfer Lawsuit Over @OMGFacts Twitter Account — Deck v. Spartz, Inc.

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Brett Trout

JULY 2, 2024

That is, up until 2024. In early 2024, board game publisher Cotsworld Games launched a crowdfunding campaign on Gamefound for its newest game “Meeple, Inc.” Interestingly, in filing their trademark application, on May 30, 2024, Ms. The Cease-and-Desist letter All was well and good in the world of meeple.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s a litigation strategy, I guess. violations; but I also think it’s clear this lawsuit is going to fail eventually. 2024 WL 4882638 (C.D. 25, 2024) The post Amazon Must Defend “Yelp Law” Claim–Ramos v. ” (As I mentioned, this is an obvious misreading of the provision).

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. In my prior blog post, I said: “Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? That lawsuit also failed. ” That’s true.

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Colin S. Levy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This situation often resulted in threatened or actual litigation and always meant a war of words in the form of contract letters numbering in the hundreds from both sides. And then any actual litigation would drag on for years after the project ended. Howard Carsman , Intel Third Party Neutral Program Presentation, 2022. Juetten, Esq.

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Lineal Services

OCTOBER 22, 2024

[Hong Kong, October 22, 2024] – Lineal, a global leader in eDiscovery and legal data intelligence, is thrilled to announce its official expansion into China, offering in-country data hosting and comprehensive eDiscovery services. market, Lineal offers cutting-edge tools to manage vast amounts of data across multiple plaintiffs.

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Debevoise Data Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Many public companies are starting to face increased risks of securities class action litigation based on statements about their use of AI that are alleged to have been false or misleading. In particular, the SEC has stated that AI is one of its examination priorities for 2024, and recently brought its first AI-related fraud cases.

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Wisblawg

MAY 28, 2024

(Forthcoming, 2024) by MIRIAM SEIFTER , UW Law School, and Adam B. Sopko, State Democracy Research Initiative Election-related litigation is soaring. Litigants regularly challenge every aspect of an election cycle, from who can vote to how votes are cast and counted to the certification of results. 1805 (2024) by WILLIAM H.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Roberts Its become known as the sad beige lawsuit or the case that asks the question can you ever really own an aesthetic ? Some attorneys speculate that the sad beige influencer litigation could lead to a deluge of similar suits. by guest blogger Alexandra J. Sydney Nicole LLC v. Alyssa Sheil LLC , 1:24-cv-00423-RP (W.D.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

May 9, 2024). The entire purpose of the discovery rule is to allow a plaintiff to recover damages that occurred more than three years before the date the lawsuit was filed. 507(b), precludes retrospective relief for acts that occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit.” Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Nealy , No.

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

. " Legal Counsel: Navigating the Risks of AI" (2024). " Technology Takes Class-Action Lawsuits Out of the Slow Lane " (2024). This piece examines how technology is streamlining complex litigation processes, particularly in class-action lawsuits, and the implications for legal practice. "

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

2) As of February 2024, five states have community-based justice workers, all with varied training requirements, scope of service, and regulatory oversight. who help self-represented litigants in state courts.(9) 51) A parallel litigation effort is also underway in two U.S. Both innovations were made possible without UPL reform.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. It’s expected to go live in Q1 of 2024.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This creates friction within the case that complicates the “managing and structuring civil litigation for fair and efficient resolution of complex disputes.” 18, 2024) Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme Joinder–Xie v. In short, Schedule A cases can quickly become unwieldy. 24-cv-09401 (N.D.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Nonetheless, we can foresee future legal battles, even class action lawsuits, arising in this arena. On the privacy front, Nita Farahany is a leading expert in neurotechnology who has concerns in this area, which she laid out at the 2024 Clio Cloud Conference. In April 2024, Colorado enacted a law protecting the privacy of neural data.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JULY 13, 2024

2024* On March 21, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which could have significant ramifications on the smartphone ecosystem. By Aaron Kamath, LL.M.

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Clio

MARCH 14, 2024

Algorithms are trained on large datasets, which enables them to identify patterns and make predictions related to legal issues, such as identifying potential contract disputes or optimal litigation strategies. What’s driving legal innovation? No unnecessary details should be stored in any system.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits. I hope lower courts will aggressively gatekeep trademark owner lawsuits over competitive keyword advertising to reduce this lawfare risk. Google was a major player in this lawsuit by proxy.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Omegle.com, LLC , 2024 WL 5040478 (11th Cir. WebGroup Czech Republic * Instagram Defeats Lawsuit Claiming It Was a Breeding Ground for Sex TraffickersDoe v. Craigslist * Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against Craigslist Moves ForwardML v. 230s Immunity The post Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over User’s “Capping”–MH v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2024

2024 WL 1337370 (N.D. March 28, 2024) This case involves the same allegations as the GG v. Snap litigation. Google LLC , 2024 WL 1892291 (N.D. April 29, 2024). Marriott * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–GG v. I’ll leave an analysis of that ruling to hyper-motivated readers.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The joinder problems should be obvious even without any past litigation experience, but at least the judge is now preemptively asking the right questions. 4, 2024) Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme SAD Scheme Leads to Another Massively Disproportionate Asset Freeze–Powell v. 20 is rarely appropriate in Schedule A cases. Emoji GmbH v.

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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 IP & Innovation L.

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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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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JULY 24, 2023

5] Research by IDC Future Work predicts that by 2024, “80% of the global 2000 organizations will use AI-enabled ‘managers’ to hire, fire, and train employees.” [6] Some niche AI-assisted tasks, such as moderating internet content [8] or providing health care services, [9] implicate legal issues and invite civil litigation.

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