Eric Goldman

APRIL 25, 2025

Seeking redress, Plaintiffs sued Defendants on the theory that their design decisions and failure to disclose the dangers of their products were the cause of D.G.s Plaintiffs further allege that D.G.s gaming has resulted in serious harm, including emotional distress, lost friends, and problems in school. addiction and Plaintiffs injuries.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective operation of the services’ reporting tools, but the plaintiffs’ goal was to hold the services accountable for their alleged inaction in response to some reports. These arguments revisit well-trodden legal ground, but the plaintiffs tried a modest innovation.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 11, 2025

Less distressing but equally true (if only marginally less dated a cultural reference) is that the Internet is for porn. While online services inevitably get used for both types of content, service providers tend to treat them very differently, given that adult pornography is generally legal in the U.S. whereas CSAM is illegal everywhere.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 17, 2025

For more on Chase’s tragedy, see the People magazine story or the Social Media Victims Law Center’s press release about the lawsuit. This is a standard argument in minors’ lawsuits against social media). April 14, 2025). April 11, 2025) This is a pro se/IFP case. Case Citation : Nasca v. Bytedance Ltd.,

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. Doe met each man in person and was sexually assaulted and raped. Three of the men are in jail; one is on the lam. Doe sued Grindr for strict products liability, negligence, and FOSTA. The district court dismissed the case.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 21, 2025

I previously summarized this lawsuit: The plaintiff sells remanufactured printer ink cartridges. 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.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 1, 2025

This lawsuit is against IRBsearch, a data aggregator of public records and other material allegedly scraped from the web. The other FCRA claims already address the defendant’s alleged failure to provide proper disclosures to the consumer. [A reminder that I don’t do April Fools gags.]

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