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. Ordinarily, hiring an attorney should improve the success rate; but not in this litigation genre.

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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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MatterSuite

MARCH 14, 2024

Whether you are a business person dealing with contractual disputes or an individual who has been injured by a defective product, the high cost of litigation– attorney fees –can quickly prevent you from seeking legal redress. This is where litigation finance (also known as litigation funding or legal financing) comes in.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Understanding Litigation Finance Litigation finance is when a third-party invests in a lawsuit in hopes of sharing in the profits of a successful verdict. litigation finance companies exist. billion in capital to litigation matters. billion in capital to litigation matters.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Advertisements have become a powerful tool for plaintiff lawyers specializing in mass litigation, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Latest Ad Boom: Lawyers Seeking Plaintiffs for Mass Litigation” published in January 2024. a national law firm marketing agency.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 4, 2023

As exciting as generative AI can be, it raises certain questions involving copyright law. Already, lawsuits involving AI-generated works have been filed in federal courts from coast to coast. This free database provides public records of lawsuits in federal trial and appellate courts. A pending lawsuit in the U.S.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This lawsuit seeks to hold Letgo liable for the murders. Since we affirm the district court’s rulings on the state law claims, we need not resolve the federal law cross appeal.” 1, 2024) The post Online Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Murder–Roland v. When the husband fought back, Brown shot them both dead.

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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. The litigants directly compete. Brown Engstrand * More on Law Firms and Competitive Keyword Ads–Nicolet Law v. LoanStreet v.

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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. Not that Meta has completely abandoned web-scraping litigation. Bright Data appears to have prevailed in its dispute against Meta.

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Vogel IT Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

BankInfoSecurity.com reported “Google reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged the tech giant had misled consumers about their privacy protections when using the private browsing Incognito mode of its Chrome web browser.” ” Since +95% of all lawsuit settle without trial this is no surprise!

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. Understanding the key differences between these two types of lawsuits could be extremely helpful if you ever find yourself in a difficult circumstance.

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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. As a result, the court finds that much of the lawsuit is a SLAPP. If the case stands on appeal, Twitter will write a check to CCDH to compensate it for the litigation harms Twitter has imposed on it. “X Corp.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. The lawsuit forced ROSS to shut down its operations , which it did effective Jan. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

I’m pleased to share a draft of a new paper, “ A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” To that end, I am giving a couple of public talks on the paper: Tarrant County Bar Association , Texas A&M Law School, Fort Worth, TX, March 27, 2023. Free RSVP! I would welcome yours.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The tsunami of anti-AI laws (and other laws against synthetic content) put all of those AR filters in jeopardy–after all, they produce fake algorithmically-generated images. But before we get there, AR filters are in jeopardy due to an old-school privacy law, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. The defendants have not yet filed an answer in the lawsuit.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. This deal is a major milestone for Pre/Dicta and the entire field of predictive litigation analytics.

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CaseFox

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This blog explores different alternative dispute resolution processes and methods, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation. In some cases, the ADR process is used along with the litigation process. There are a few different types of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation.

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CaseFox

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This blog explores different alternative dispute resolution processes and methods, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation. In some cases, the ADR process is used along with the litigation process. There are a few different types of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation.

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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. I think he would have certainly owed a fee-shift if the court had applied anti-SLAPP laws. Either way, looping Facebo0k into this litigation was a terrible decision. Whoa, what a flashback.

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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. However, note that Nicolet Law, a surname, isn’t registered with the USPTO and there may be questions about its secondary meaning.

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Lineal Services

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This strategic move enhances Lineal’s ability to deliver industry-leading legal technology services, strengthening support for internal and regulatory investigations, class action lawsuits, IP litigation, offshore litigation, and antitrust investigations—services that are increasingly critical for legal teams across the APAC region.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 14, 2024

It is an all-out brawl in federal court, with no-expense-spared battles over each and every picayune litigation issue. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts. Their claims were always overreaching and never meritorious in my mind.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 12, 2024

In 2014, California enacted AB2365 , sometimes called the “Yelp law,” codified at Cal. The law prohibits businesses from suppressing consumer reviews (on Yelp or elsewhere). Thus, more likely, this law is one of thousands of laws that the California legislature passes with some hype but then gets widely ignored.

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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. But DoNotPay — represented by real, not robot, lawyers — moved to dismiss the lawsuit, asserting that MillerKing lacked standing to sue it in federal court.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rare case analyzing Section 230’s intersection with admiralty law. MySpace case from 2008 and its progeny (assuming the Doe case is still good law in the Fifth Circuit, which isn’t guaranteed ). The case involves GetMyBoat, an online marketplace for boat rentals. A boating accident led to Lindsey’s tragic death.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 8, 2024

” That prompted this litigation. Adler v McNeil * Court Denies Injunction in Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit–Nursing CE Central v. Colibri * Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit Fails…Despite 236 Potentially Confused Customers–Lerner & Rowe v. Brown Engstrand * More on Law Firms and Competitive Keyword Ads–Nicolet Law v.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A major NFT case was decided on February 8, 2023 as the French luxury fashion house Hermès won the MetaBirkins lawsuit against the artist, Mason Rothschild. Previously decided NFT cases focused primarily on copyright law. Just like the MetaBirkins lawsuit, the focus is on trademark law and NFTs. So what happened?

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost.

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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.” Amazon appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

MARCH 2, 2023

Today, it’s impossible to watch television or browse the internet without seeing countless advertisements for mass tort litigation. These mass lawsuits are vital in that they offer compensation for painful, and often deadly, diseases. One of the most recent mass torts cases is the ongoing Camp Lejeune litigation.

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TechnoLlama

JULY 8, 2023

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for claims related to the development, use, and training of ChatGPT, these being direct copyright infringement, vicarious infringement, copyright management information removal, unfair competition, negligence, and unjust enrichment (complaint here).

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Wisblawg

MAY 28, 2024

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Forthcoming, 2024) by MIRIAM SEIFTER , UW Law School, and Adam B. Sopko, State Democracy Research Initiative Election-related litigation is soaring.

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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

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. After 8 years of litigation, the case ends on essentially a procedural technicality (an important one, but still…). Two of those cases, Gonzalez v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Indeed, they are already filing lawsuits despite the pending Supreme Court appeal hanging over the law. The plaintiffs may have to sue in California if the law survives Constitutional scrutiny. But surprise!

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MatterSuite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Pleadings are vital legal documents that initiate and define lawsuits. When a lawsuit is filed, it is the complaint (or the equivalent initial pleading) that outlines the plaintiff’s grievances or claims against the defendant. The specificity and accuracy of pleadings can significantly influence the direction of a lawsuit.

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