Eric Goldman

MAY 24, 2025

If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you have a pretty good idea of how this case will end. The post YouTuber Loses Lawsuit Over Account Suspension–Hall v. YouTuber appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Contract Breach. Case Citation : Hall v. YouTube, LLC, 2025 WL 1482007 (N.D.

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MAY 18, 2025

In September 2023, the FTC, along with 19 states, filed a lawsuit against Amazon , alleging that the company used three different algorithmic pricing models to sustain its monopoly power. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in October 2026. In August 2024, the DOJ, along with 8 other states, filed a lawsuit against RealPage Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 25, 2025

For her clear-eyed and no-nonsense responses to a heartbreaking but censorial lawsuit, especially in the face of heightened concerns about important social issues like kids, addiction, and AI, I’m awarding her the Technology & Marketing Law Blog “Judge of the Day” award. Case Citation : Angelilli v.

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Trellis.Law Blog

MAY 3, 2024

Chamber of Commerce and other business groups filed a lawsuit challenging the rule in a U.S.… … Continue reading → The post Chamber of Commerce Files Lawsuit Against FTC Over Noncompete Ban first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. Legal action ensued as the U.S.

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Trellis.Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Four women have filed a lawsuit against the makers of the Stanley cup –an ultra-popular drink tumbler that went viral on social media.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I previously blogged on this issue in 2023. Thus, lawsuits like this expose the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t dilemma facing Internet services who are compelled to do age authentication. Selected BIPA Blog Posts Augmented Reality Filters May Violate Privacy LawHartman v. See Kuklinski v.Binance ). Confirm ID, Inc.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 11, 2025

What Do You Need To Prove in a Birth Injury Lawsuit? Birth injury lawsuits usually involve negligence claims. Many states require affidavits of merit out of concern that healthcare providers would face lawsuits that lack a valid basis if this screening requirement didnt exist. This tends to require proving four elements.

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Trellis.Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The new law also allows Texas judges to order migrants to leave… Continue reading → The post DOJ Launches Lawsuit Against Texas Amidst Immigration Law Controversy first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Trellis.Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

New evidence has… Continue reading → The post Tesla Lawsuit Update: New Evidence Reveals Executive Awareness of Autopilot Risks first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2025

The post Another Lawsuit Over Online Content Restrictions Fails–Qian v. YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Qian v. YouTube, LLC , 2025 WL 582785 (2d Cir. The complaint.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last Friday, the parties stipulated to dismiss their lawsuit, with Meta formally waiving its right to appeal the controversial January 23rd decision from Judge Chen. The post Facebook Drops Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Against Bright Data (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Talking to teammates today in preparation for my webinar on blogging with AI on Thursday, I discovered something pretty cool. Assuming I want to blog about the case which was dismissed on the insurance company’s appeal, I need a summary of the appellate court’s decision. So much to imagine here.

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Trellis.Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The Statute regulates the… Continue reading → The post California Class Action Alert: First of Its Kind Geolocation Lawsuit by Drivers Against License Plate Data Misuse first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. The complaint alleges DRN violated California’s Automated License Plate Recognition (“ALPR”) statute.

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TechnoLlama

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in German here, courtesy of Mirko Brüß). In short, LAION was successful in its defence against […]

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

He also brought a similar but unrelated lawsuit against Noel Wells). 30, 2024) Selected Posts on #MeToo Facebook Moderator Defeats Defamation Lawsuit Over Termination Explanation–Margolies v. Bridgers appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Both Bannon and Bridgers filed anti-SLAPP motions to strike.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2023

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

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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. My blog post on that ruling. Alphabet appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 31, 2023

Blog post coverage of that ruling here. 23, 2023) The post Lawsuit Over Twitter Suspension Fails Again–Zhang v. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. A Twitter user sued over his account suspension. The court dismissed the case without prejudice. The user tried again. Same result. Section 230.

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Trellis.Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On November 22, 2023, the lawsuit against Lizzo by three of her previous backup dancers had its first court hearing.

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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. 6, 2023) The post Suspended Twitter User Loses Lawsuit Over Data Access–Thomas v. Case Citation : Thomas v.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

The single biggest impediment to blog success for lawyers is failing to focus on a niche. Niche blogs become must reads for an audience, enable a lawyer to build a reputation (often where no other lawyer is playing) and enable relationships to flourish, often for work outside the niche. The tighter the niche the better.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram. The post Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior appeared first on Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

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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 appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Trellis.Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Welcome back to the Trellis blog! At the end of December, media mogul The New York Times filed… Continue reading → The post Copyright Clash: The New York Times Files Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Trellis.Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Law firms are… Continue reading → The post Legal Safeguards: Microsoft’s Role in Shielding Customers from AI-Related Lawsuits first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. With new technology comes new legal issues.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2025

Last year, the Ninth Circuit said that plaintiffs could get around Section 230 in their lawsuit against the app maker YOLO because the app maker said it would ban users for inappropriate statements and would unmask harassers. This blog post covers the YOLO case remand after that Section 230 ruling. I don’t know.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

The court continues: Consider the proverbial pajama-clad blogger from the early 2000s who would share his musings on his personal Internet blog while sitting in his mothers basement. ” I will have you know that I am fully showered and wearing (mostly) clean clothes (and not my jammies) as I write this blog post.

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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.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 17, 2025

These issues have culminated into legal actions, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions (EEOC) first AI hiring discrimination lawsuit against a companys hiring program that automatically rejected female candidates over 55 and male candidates over 60.

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lennyesq

OCTOBER 28, 2024

‘They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations’ Iain Thomson Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has hit back at a lawsuit claiming that it’s unfairly harvesting data from Dow Jones & Co and the New York Post to feed its AI engine, as well as stealing and mangling content.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 21, 2024

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. The post Section 230 Preempts Two More Harassment Lawsuits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. July 16, 2024) Lance Benedict is a musician. Was the court offering him free legal advice? The mind reels.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

9, 2024) The post Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Allegedly Pornographic Ads–Reaud v. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Yet another account termination/content removal ruling for the defense. Case Citation : Reaud v. Facebook Inc. 2024 WL 4126066 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 17, 2023

is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. GitHub, Inc.

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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. 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

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. Facebook and Aguilo v. Cognizant.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

5, 2024) The post Angi Can’t Dismiss Lawsuit Over Failed Vendor Authentication–Everyspace v. Encor appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Everyspace Construction, LLC v. Encor Solar LLC, 2024 WL 4062051 (D.

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