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Online Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Murder–Roland v. Letgo

Eric Goldman

This lawsuit seeks to hold Letgo liable for the murders. Since we affirm the district court’s rulings on the state law claims, we need not resolve the federal law cross appeal.” 2024 WL 372218 (10th Cir. 1, 2024) The post Online Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Murder–Roland v. Negligence.

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AWS Can’t Shake BIPA Lawsuit for Providing Services to NBA 2K–Mayhall v. Amazon

Eric Goldman

Plaintiff further alleges that Defendants knew they were collecting biometric data from Illinois citizens, including children, in violation of Illinois state law.” Stated differently, what exactly do we want vendors like AWS to do…act as a government deputy to police their customers’ possible misdeeds?

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Allegations of a Bribe-Driven Facebook-OnlyFans Conspiracy Unsurprisingly Fall Apart in Court–Dangaard v. Instagram

Eric Goldman

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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Recent Developments in Collegiate Name, Image, and Likeness

The Barrister

3] The NCAA provided minimal guidance for how schools and states should proceed in shaping their policies, resulting in a lack of uniformity among state NIL policy. [4] The lawsuit is an antitrust claim challenging the NCAA’s rules against recruiting inducements. [8] 8, 2024, 1:27PM), [link]. [8] 8, 2024) [link].

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Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law? Think Again–In re Meta Healthcare Pixels

Eric Goldman

In my Internet Law course, I still teach the Pharmatrak case from 2003, where an analytics service provider used a pixel and other tracking technology. There are hundreds of pixel lawsuits in the courts right now (and surely more to come after a ruling like this). 29, 2024) The post Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law?

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Amazon Must Defend “Yelp Law” Claim–Ramos v. Amazon

Eric Goldman

violations; but I also think it’s clear this lawsuit is going to fail eventually. The court conclusorily responds: “the First Amendment rights of Amazon are not implicated by a law that prohibits a commercial entity from contractually limiting the speech of its customers in third-party sites.” 2024 WL 4882638 (C.D.

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Web Page Framing Isn’t Trespass to Chattels–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Eric Goldman

Some screenshots depicting the framing (the first image shows Google’s superimposed frame on the right; the second shows what happens if users click on the frame in the first image): If this issue sounds familiar, it’s because framing generated huge discussion in Internet Law circles… 20+ years ago. That lawsuit also failed.

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