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Guest Post: Building Better Civil Justice Systems Isn’t Just About The Funding

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Rhode Center on the Legal Profession , where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project , and Jess Lu , a third year law student at Stanford and a civil justice fellow at the Rhode Center, who was formerly a senior associate consultant at Bain & Co. If courts move to standardize the collection of “data” (i.e.,

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Judge Reconsiders SAD Scheme Ruling Against Online Marketplaces–Squishmallows v. Alibaba

Eric Goldman

I previously blogged about one such case, where Squishmallow sued 90 e-commerce merchants in a sealed complaint and got a TRO. Alibaba and AliExpress did indeed fight back, filing a motion to dismiss that I discussed in my prior post. The judge subsequently held the marketplaces in contempt for violating the injunction.

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

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In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. Karlen , the unwitting litigant filed an appellate brief in which 22 of 24 cases were fictitious. In reviewing the memoranda, Judge Brian A.

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Voting Is Closed and Here Are the Results: The 15 Finalists You Chose To Be In the 2024 Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW

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From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications down to 25, which we posted on Dec. BriefCatch BriefCatch empowers lawyers and judges to edit legal documents to the highest standards while helping their clients win, boosting their writing skills, and enjoying expert explanations, models, and examples.

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A Judge Enumerates a SAD Scheme Plaintiff’s Multiple Abuses, But Still Won’t Award Sanctions–Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather v. Schedule A Defendants

Eric Goldman

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. The plaintiff eventually dismissed all of the defendants within 5 weeks of filing the complaint. ” In a prior ruling, the court said it had “serious doubt. See ECF No.

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Guest Post: Building Better Civil Justice Systems Isn’t Just About The Funding

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Rhode Center on the Legal Profession , where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project , and Jess Lu , a third year law student at Stanford and a civil justice fellow at the Rhode Center, who was formerly a senior associate consultant at Bain & Co. If courts move to standardize the collection of “data” (i.e.,

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Ryanair v. Booking CFAA Trial Ends with Strangest Possible Outcome (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Ryanair recently “prevailed” in its CFAA claim in its litigation against Booking.com. Maybe this was just the jury’s way of telling the judge and the parties, “This case is dumb. This has been a hard case to follow online, because many of the key rulings have been filed under seal. I want to go home.” Booking Holdings Inc.

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