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TikTok ban goes to the court: 5 essential reads on the case and its consequences

LLRX

TikTok headed to court on Sept. 16, 2024, in a bid to overturn a law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, layers for TikTok said imposing such a prohibition would have “staggering” consequences for free speech.

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

Eric Goldman

After hearing this allegation at least twice, the Court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to go present proof of such a bribe and to specifically subpoena the banks that were allegedly involved in laundering the bribe. You can essentially hear Judge Alsup’s teeth gnashing in the opinion. Case Citation : Dangaard v.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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Decoding Justice: Key Differences Between Civil and Criminal Litigation

CaseFox

Have you ever found yourself curious about the legal stuff you hear about? The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. So, hiring a lawyer will play a crucial role in advising, preparing legal documents, and presenting cases in court.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

That section states that rights under state laws that are “equivalent” to rights under copyright law are preempted. There are more than 300 opinions by federal courts dealing with the express preemption of contracts, and within them two main approaches have emerged. ML Genius v. A third approach?

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Inspire.Legal 2019

Legal Talk Network

Christian is the Head of Strategy at Reynen Court LLC as well as the author of the Blacklines & Billables blog which, by the way, has its own podcast. Billed as a crowdsourced problem-solving gathering of lawyers, clients, and technologists, this meeting-of-the-minds was founded by our good friend Christian Lang.

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Justia Legal Guides: Disability Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The SSA provides three internal levels of appeals : a reconsideration, a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), and review by the SSA Appeals Council. If a claimant does not get benefits at any of these levels of administrative appeals, they can consider taking their case to federal court.

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