Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Simpson next faced a civil lawsuit under a wrongful death theory. Someone exploring this chapter of American legal history might want to know more about what the prosecution needs to prove in a murder case, or how a defendant can beat the charge. Types of Homicide Charges People sometimes use “homicide” and “murder” interchangeably.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Products Liability Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides aims to illuminate this area of the law, helping injured people protect their rights. Negligence involves showing that the manufacturer or other defendant failed to use appropriate care. A plaintiff may raise both theories if state law and the facts of the case permit.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JUNE 18, 2024

Medical malpractice cases may pose more challenges than a typical personal injury lawsuit, though. The Medical Malpractice Law Center at Justia can help patients understand the potential path ahead and some of the pitfalls that may confront them. It aims to provide some general answers to questions that patients may raise.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 11, 2025

Although the case was just settled, this lawsuit was not Nikes first foray into patent infringement litigationnor is it likely to be its last. In its lawsuit, Nike sought both damages and a permanent injunction to stop Lululemon from producing the allegedly infringing designs. The lawsuit was settled in 2021.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

While medical malpractice generally does not lead to criminal charges, it can result in a lawsuit against a healthcare provider. The Medical Malpractice Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides describes many of the forms that malpractice can take. Proving a Malpractice Claim Not every mistake warrants a malpractice lawsuit.

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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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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Calling all cyberlaw nerds: here is a bona fide “ Law of the Horse ” case. The plaintiff is an Oregon law firm practicing equine law. The defendant runs a Florida horse ranch. In 2016, the defendant licensed the plaintiff’s Equine Boarding Forms Package, consisting of form releases for adults and minors.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Stages of a Lawsuit Even if they are working with an attorney, someone considering a lawsuit (or already involved in a lawsuit) may want to know about how the court process unfolds. A lawsuit usually starts with a complaint , which the plaintiff files with the court and serves on the defendant.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. If that’s true with the other 18 cases, Roblox may have sued 4,000+ defendants using the SAD Scheme. Hierl was the lead counsel on the Emojico case I opined on in 2021.] * * * Jurisdiction The defendant Bigfinz sells t-shirts. at issue here.

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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

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. Thus, to remedy the alleged defect, Defendants would have to change the content posted on their platforms.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 18, 2023

To help our fellow pet owners, we have created an Animal and Dog Law Center in our Justia Legal Guides. For example, a dog owner might be able to defend a case by showing that the victim provoked the dog or was illegally on the property. Some dogs are classified as dangerous dogs under state or local laws.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Elder Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides describes some red flags that family members of a nursing home resident should bear in mind when visiting their loved one. The Elder Law Center also covers several other concerns that may affect older Americans and their families, helping them understand their legal rights and options.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 28, 2024

299 limits joinder in patent cases to defendants who infringe using “the same accused product or process.” ” Congress enacted this requirement to restrict patent trolls who were filing lawsuits against defendants who had nothing in common but the allegation that they were infringing the same patent.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every SAD Scheme lawsuit is problematic, though the specific reasons may differ. Each lawsuit creates dozens or hundreds of individual dramas, few of which receive any public scrutiny, and usually comes at the cost of due process and the rule of law. As usual, the Schedule A provides threadbare information about each defendant.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The real challenge often lies in defending that patent. But if you want a patent that encourage your competition to avoid court, finding a patent attorney well-versed in bothpatent prosecution(the process of obtaining a patent) andpatent litigation(enforcing or defending against infringement claims) can return large dividends.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2023

This case involves two rival personal injury law firms in Arizona, one of which engaged in competitive keyword advertising against the other. The court dismisses the lawsuit on summary judgment. Instead, the court says that any actual confusion evidenced by the call logs was de minimis as a matter of law. clickthrough rate.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 21, 2024

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. “A defendant does not “use” a plaintiff’s mark to [infringe] when the defendant merely provides a search engine service that allows third parties to search using the plaintiff’s mark. Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. ” Defamation. .

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While federal law governs people and businesses across the U.S., each state has developed its own set of laws in many areas. These range from employment and family law to personal injury and criminal law. State laws may resemble one another in some situations, but they may vary greatly in others.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Brett Trout Patent litigation is often complex and high-stakes, but the case involvingLeigh Rothschild, Starbucks, and attorney Rachael Lamkinhas taken an unusual turn, morphing from a patent infringement lawsuit into allegations of fraud, and now, a defamation battle? from defendants through AT.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 25, 2024

This well-publicized lawsuit is an example of Musk waging lawfare over a critic’s speech. He calls out Twitter for its bad choice: This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech…X Corp. He calls out Twitter for its bad choice: This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech…X Corp.

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Law Technology Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

Law firms with data privacy practices are seeing a substantial uptick in questions from clients concerned with these topics, and clients who require defense against a pending legal action. Over 18 class-action lawsuits have been filed against hospitals and counting, alleging they are sharing health data via online trackers.

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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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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2024

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. A reminder that if the US government had prosecuted the defendants for violating the Clean Air Act, Section 230 would have been irrelevant (it doesn’t apply to federal criminal prosecutions). The defendants sell this hardware.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The plaintiff claims that the defendant company is engaging in a form of corporate identity theft, trading on its license number, and that Angi promoted the interloper as a certified contractor without doing proper verification. Angi unsuccessfully defends on Section 230 grounds. It matches contractors with homeowners.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

” The abstract: This paper describes a sophisticated but underreported system of mass-defendant intellectual property litigation called the “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (the “SAD Scheme”), which occurs most frequently in the Northern District of Illinois as a way to target Chinese online marketplace vendors. Free RSVP!

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The plaintiff sued 163 defendants for online marketplace sales and got an ex parte TRO, including Amazon account freezes. After a couple of defendants showed up, the judge denied a TRO extension because of the possible lack of merit in the plaintiff’s infringement allegations. Then, the case fell apart. See ECF No.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 8, 2024

In 2014, the defendant launched a website called “The Texas Tamales Warehouse” but was driven off of that. Having established its trademark rights, in the most recent ruling, Texas Tamale unsurprisingly gets an injunction against the defendant. ” Uh oh. ” UGH. in the Adler v. McNeil case.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Recently, the companys aggressive enforcement of its intellectual property (IP) has taken center stage, with high-profile lawsuits targeting game modders, emulator developers, and companies like Pocketpair, the creators of Palworld. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the games continued distribution?

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 14, 2024

The cases reached important milestones last Fall, when both the federal and state court judges denied the social media defendants’ Section 230 motions to dismiss. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a competitive keyword advertising lawsuit. A rival, Colibri, displayed in the trademark in its Google keyword ads, but it claims it has stopped doing so after the lawsuit was filed. “both the plaintiff and the defendant rely on the internet as a sales tool.” ” Defendant intent.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 27, 2024

Plaintiff further alleges that Defendants knew they were collecting biometric data from Illinois citizens, including children, in violation of Illinois state law.” May 29, 2024) The post AWS Can’t Shake BIPA Lawsuit for Providing Services to NBA 2K–Mayhall v. Case Citation : Mayhall v. Amazon Web Services Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

MAY 13, 2023

This is another lawsuit between personal injury law firms over competitive keyword ads. The plaintiff is Nicolet Law, based in Hudson, Wisconsin with 14 offices in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The defendant is the Bye, Goff firm, based in River Falls, Wisconsin with other in-state offices. It reminds me of the Porta-Fab case.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This lawsuit seeks to hold Letgo liable for the murders. It said 230 was not available to Letgo because, per Accusearch , “Plaintiffs have sufficiently pleaded, for a motion under Rule 12(b)(6), that Defendants contributed in part to the allegedly offending ‘verified’ representation.” Negligence. Case Citation : Roland v. Letgo, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 10, 2023

.” 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.” Cites to McCarthy v. Amazon , Ratermann v. Pierre Fabre , Eberhart v.

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Clio

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Whether youre a law student attempting to master case briefing, or a lawyer seeking to re-learn this skill to advocate more effectively, this blog post provides a useful cheat sheet to make tackling case briefs more efficient. What is a case brief? A case brief is a summary and analysis of a judicial opinion.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A reminder: this lawsuit is a battle royale. Combined with prior rulings, in the October 24, 2024 ruling, the court summarizes where the various claims stand: It’s even more complicated, because several of the plaintiffs’ claims are based on state laws. 7, 2024) The plaintiffs named Zuckerberg as a defendant individually.

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