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. Jurors and judges generally arent familiar with the medical profession. Frivolous lawsuits could increase the costs of malpractice insurance, which are passed down to consumers. How Is Cerebral Palsy Treated?

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Trellis.Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Last month, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, signed Senate Bill 4, a law that allows police officers in Texas to arrest migrants who enter the state illegally.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 22, 2024

But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd […] ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product.

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lennyesq

MAY 2, 2025

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS A lawyer who wanted his pleadings to stand out has been ordered to remove a large purple dragon watermark from each page of a lawsuit that he filed in federal court. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan ordered lawyer Jacob A. Nor can the firm include the logo on other new filings.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After applying statutory damages caps, the judge awarded over $10 million, which was affirmed on appeal. 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 jury agreed, issuing a $160 million verdict.

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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. For law students, this will be the main takeaway of the case, as intended by your professor.

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

This is where law firm predictive analytics come to the rescue. By leveraging AI and other technologies, law firms can uncover patterns and trends across vast datasetsturning raw information into actionable insight. What is predictive analytics for law firms?

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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. Alphabet appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case citation: Daniels v.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

See all stories about this lawsuit. But ROSS countered that the databases TR maintains of public law and its legal search tools are, in fact, separate products, and that TR conditions access to the databases on purchase of the search tools. Judge Leonard P. Stark — who previously presided over the case as a U.S.

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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. So where exactly is the Ninth Circuit’s law on this topic? I don’t know. Case Citation : Bride v.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

You may have heard about Squishmallow’s recent lawsuit against Build-a-Bear over plushy knockoffs. Yet, the SAD Scheme jurisprudential distortion field worked its magic once again, and the judge rejected their legitimate pushback. The judge subsequently held the marketplaces in contempt for violating the injunction.

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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. Given that most observers in this space were surprised by Judge Chen’s summary judgment decision, Meta’s decision not to appeal seems even more surprising.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

With substantial assistance from judges, rightsowners use these dynamics to extract settlements from online vendors without satisfying basic procedural safeguards like serving the complaint and establishing personal jurisdiction over defendants. 32nd Annual DePaul Law Review Symposium , Chicago, April 14, 2023. Free RSVP!

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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. Such allegations fail to state a claim under products liability law. removal of the reported videos.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 30, 2024

The court says that Printify took appropriate steps when it learned of infringing items via Atari’s lawsuit: First, Printify searched its own database for the 70 URLs identified by Atari in ECF No. 25, 2024) Related posts * Ninth Circuit Highlights the Messy Law of Contributory Trademark Infringement Online–YYGM v. Printify, Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 20, 2023

We used to see lawsuits like this 15+ years ago, but we don’t see them any more because they are so obviously doomed by Section 230. If I were a judge, I would sanction that argument harshly. I think he would have certainly owed a fee-shift if the court had applied anti-SLAPP laws. Whoa, what a flashback. The complaint.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 7, 2025

”] This lawsuits raises one of the venerable but surprisingly vexing copyright law questions: when is a price copyrightable? ” And yet…the copyright law jurisprudence is littered with cases saying or implying that individual prices could be copyrightable (e.g., This lawsuit was filed in early January.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Gone are the days when judges were unaware that AI is simply a tool that one may apply to many generic problems. Implications for Patent Filings This decision underscores the importance of claim drafting in patents covering new applications of artificial intelligence.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2024

If that rings a bell, it’s because just yesterday I blogged on a DIFFERENT fish painter, DeYoung, who also brought an IP lawsuit against a print-on-demand service (Pixels). New practice area alert for law students: the specialty niche of fish artists asserting IP claims against print-on-demand services. Volitional Conduct.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2024

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. Stripping this system down to its Internet Law basics, the defendants apparently run a walled garden app store for car modification apps. Credit also goes to the defense team from Greenberg Traurig and Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. 6] Despite these challenges, plaintiffs are not slowing down, and new lawsuits were filed at a steady clip over the course of 2024.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In my last post , I discussed how evolving technology will continue to influence our relationships and thus, impact family law. We have all heard about the lawsuit involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. This is often the case in family law matters. Even public figures are not immune to the potential impact of text messages.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 10, 2025

Because patent law isnt just about filling out forms and submitting diagrams. They know how judges interpret vague language, how opposing counsel attacks claim construction, and how the slightest ambiguity can make or break a case. In fact,no two patent attorneys would draft the same patent for the same invention.

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lennyesq

APRIL 12, 2024

By Charles Lane A federal judge on Friday tossed out a pre-emptive lawsuit from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who sought to stave off legal action by New York Attorney General Letitia James over his decision banning transgender women from playing sports at county-owned facilities, James’ office said. Read more…

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

Based on this ruling, Viral DRM’s earlier SAD Scheme lawsuit also may have been deficient on copyright standing grounds. Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderZaful v. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderXie v. 2025 WL 660250 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

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. Not exactly much disincentives for plaintiffs to keep shotgunning SAD Scheme lawsuits. Then, the case fell apart. Schedule A Defendants , 1:23-cv-02605-JLR (S.D.N.Y.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. ” Presumably, a test buy would suffice under 7th Circuit law, but I guess Roblox didn’t do the test buys. This hardline approach irritated this judge. In practice, the judge didn’t even apply its logic to the rest of the lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderZaful v. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderXie v. Annex A Will Judges Become More Skeptical of Joinder in SAD Scheme Cases?Dongguan Judge Pushes Back on Copyright SAD Scheme CasesViral DRM v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 10, 2024

Last month, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, signed Senate Bill 4, a law that allows police officers in Texas to arrest migrants who enter the state illegally. The new law also allows Texas judges to order migrants to leave.

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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). Using a pixel to track users is an Old School practice.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before AI, I wade through the case and prepare a summary the way I may have done so as a clerk during law school. With the insertion of the url, asking that the summary be bulleted and be writtten in the tone of the source (the clerk or judge who wrote the decision), I receive the below. How do I get the summary?

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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 supervising judge affirmed without substantive comment.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The EPA civilly sued eBay for third-party merchant listings of items that violate environmental laws. eBay defeats the lawsuit. v EZ Lynk case I blogged in April, strangely not cited by the judge. Presumably the downplayed language was designed to discourage class action lawsuits). Is eBay the “Seller”?

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 24, 2021

Managing people is tough, and employment issues are among the thorniest that law firm managers must face. Here’s advice on law firm risk management from a managing partner who also represents those disgruntled employees. Here are a few observations and tips from an employment lawyer who also manages a law firm.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 28, 2024

” 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. We recently saw how Judge Pacold used Section 299 to cause a SAD Scheme patent case to fall apart. This is not a hard call. Alibaba N.D.

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