LLRX

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. Instagram appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. LEXIS 171462 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 17, 2024

by guest blogger Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law A Web Scraper Beats a Platform: The Same Story, but Different It seems like we’ve been here before, and not that long ago. It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case concerning laws passed in Florida and Texas over whether state governments are allowed to create rules to address social media companies’ alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints on their platforms.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A web of federal and state laws shields consumers from fraud, abuse, and other forms of harm. The Consumer Protection Law Center at Justia offers both practical advice and legal information. State laws governing debt collection sometimes extend more broadly. States may have similar or broader laws.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court. Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Workers’ Compensation Law Center at Justia provides insights on how the process unfolds. Even if a business labels a worker as an independent contractor, they still are considered an employee if they meet the definition of this term under state law. Ultimately, they might pursue an appeal in state court.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 22, 2023

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. copyright law protects only works of human authorship, and the defendant, Stephen Thaler, expressly told the Copyright Office that the work at issue, titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” “lack[ed] traditional human authorship.” Perlmutter , No.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 13, 2024

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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Eric Goldman

JULY 1, 2024

A couple of years ago, Florida and Texas passed “social media censorship” laws. The laws were not subtle–the bill titles literally told the world that the legislatures were censoring social media. From a drafting standpoint, the laws were a mess.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The International Law Center at Justia explains this membership process and describes each of the major organs in the UN, such as the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Secretariat. It also provides a separate discussion on the International Court of Justice , which emerged from the San Francisco Conference as well.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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). Note: the court cites Facebook v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The high court is reviewing the constitutionality of GOP-backed laws in Florida and Texas to stop the perceived censorship of conservative views by the sites.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2023

He brought a state court class action lawsuit against Ripoff Report, alleging violations of CA B&P 17200 and the implied covenant of good faith. Ripoff Report removed the case to federal court. The plaintiff successfully remanded the case back to state court and got some of its attorneys’ fees covered.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In addition to educating the public and helping develop policies, the agency can bring legal actions against people or businesses that have allegedly violated consumer protection laws. The Consumer Protection Law Center at Justia provides more details about how the FTC helps protect consumers from deceptive and unfair business practices.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 4, 2023

The court easily dismisses per Section 230: ICS Provider. Numerous courts have held Google is one. ” The court summarizes: “Google has immunity from her state law claims, as it cannot be held liable for search engine results showing a third party’s statement.” Publisher/Speaker Claims.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Along those same lines, parties to a prenup should understand what rights they have to inherit property under relevant state law once they are a spouse and if their partner predeceases them. In addition to family law litigation, she also negotiates prenuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements on behalf of clients.

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LLRX

AUGUST 27, 2024

David Colarusso founded and co-directs the Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. LLRX is pleased to share what Colarusso states is not a traditional syllabus, because this class he is teaching is not a traditional class. By training he is an attorney and science educator.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Federal laws and regulations provide specific protections to people with disabilities. This is why Justia recently added the Justia Disability Law Center to our Justia Legal Guides for consumers. 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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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Eventually, both state legislatures and Congress banned the practice. The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8,

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 4, 2024

Utah passed a terrible law claiming to be “for the kids,” which are increasingly prevalent at the state level. NetChoice challenged the law in court primarily based on the First Amendment, but NetChoice also claimed that Section 230 preempts the latter three functions. The court concludes they do not.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 27, 2024

I believe that’s because the court and parties are battling over redactions. Plaintiff further alleges that Defendants knew they were collecting biometric data from Illinois citizens, including children, in violation of Illinois state law.” The court shrugs its shoulders. This is a rough ruling for Amazon.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 29, 2023

A: because they spend so much time in court proceedings). Protip: if you want to win in court, don’t self-describe as an “appropriation artist”). The court treats Ripps’ collection as competing against and putting downward price pressure on the original NFTs. Q: why are the apes so bored?

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

As a result, UMG apparently makes the blanket assumption that it owns every element of a sound recording in its catalog, leading to overenforcements like this one where it apparently is enforcing its status as a non-exclusive licensee of the beat (which copyright law doesn’t permit). Chen * Another 512(f) Claim Fails–Moonbug v.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Workers’ Compensation Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides describes what makes a worker eligible for these benefits, the procedures that they need to follow, and other key issues that victims of job-related harm should know when asserting their rights. Certain agricultural and domestic workers may be exempt, for example.)

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Eric Goldman

JULY 13, 2023

The court rules for Reddit on all counts. The court says Rogozinski doesn’t have priority over Reddit. The court does not credit Rogozinski’s role in creating the subreddit as a use in commerce, and Rogozinski’s other uses (such as the book title) don’t count either. State Law Claims.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The court summarizes the plaintiff’s allegations: Plaintiff alleges that in October, 2020, he received a negative review on Nextdoor from a former customer. ” The court cites Force v. The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

I imagined I was an Iowa lawyer looking to develop a niche in agricultural law. I asked “What are good ideas for a niche legal blog on agriculture law in Iowa?” Overviews of Iowa’s state laws and regulations related to farming and agriculture, including those pertaining to zoning, land use, and conservation.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The court also questions Letgo’s causation because of the murderer’s intervening crime, making Letgo’s lack of user verification “insignificant and not a substantial factor in causing the murders.” The court again rejects for lack of causation. The district court had dismissed the case on non-230 grounds.

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lennyesq

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA Six major book publishers Friday sued the Florida Department of Education, challenging a 2023 state law used to restrict books in school libraries. The law, HB 1069 , came into effect on July 1, 2023, and significantly expanded the state’s ability to prohibit literature if it contained sexual content.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Last Friday, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court held that embryos are considered people under Alabama state law. Continue reading → The post Frozen Embryos Now Considered Children: Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court Decision and the Future of Fertility Care first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 1, 2023

So this post is 100% true, even if it might sound farcical. * * * This ruling is part of an ongoing multi-iteration tussle (in and out of court) over market share between two rival unions. Because of these deficiencies, the court says: “The copyright note is not a DMCA notice under § 512. ” Cite to ISE v.

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APRIL 23, 2023

By Josephine Stratman New York’s efforts to curb the explosion of unlicensed weed shops have been largely ineffective due to a tangle of limited laws, agencies with overlapping responsibility and spotty enforcement, a Daily News investigation has found.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Sylvia Lu studies the intersection of law and technology, and has outlined a legal framework to do just that. The often-overlooked consequences of AI applications call for regulatory frameworks that can keep pace with this rapidly evolving technology.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We’re happy to provide a Sports Law center in our Justia Legal Guides for fellow fans who may be interested in legal issues that can affect athletes. Some areas of law are not specific to professional athletes but could raise certain issues related to their occupation. Like many workplaces, we have a Super Bowl contest.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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