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Ticketmaster’s Attempt to Game Arbitration Services Fails–Heckman v. Live Nation

Eric Goldman

The court’s reaction is predictable if chilling. Rather than turning the analysis on formation issues, the court strikes down Ticketmaster’s efforts as unconscionable–and the weak formation practices exacerbate the unconscionability problem. I still teach the 2007 Ticketmaster v. Case Citation : Heckman v.

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Clio Acquires CalendarRules, Product that Automates Calendaring of Court Deadlines

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Law practice management company Clio has acquired the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules , Clio’s first acquisition since becoming the first law practice management company to achieve unicorn status earlier this year and its second acquisition ever. Syncing court dates to calendars in Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. “By

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How to Solve Unmet Legal Needs and Restore Public Trust – A Justice Blueprint

Colin S. Levy

Public opinion of the nations judicial system and courts fell to a record-low in 2024, according to the latest Gallup poll. For example, historically the Supreme Court employed antitrust doctrine to ease competitive barriers and reduce costs for things like real estate title searches and bar exam review courses. Regulatory Reforms.

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MerusCase Adds Rules-Based Calendaring Through Integration With CalendarRules

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The cloud-based practice management platform MerusCase is today launching an integration with CalendarRules to provide rules-based calendaring of court deadlines. CalendarRules, founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Open Text, says it has over 1,800 rule sets for federal and state courts throughout the U.S.

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Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

The low grade the court earned is a consequence of it losing many points by misstating the law, misapplying the law, and especially skipping over the part where it was supposed to share its analysis and instead just stated its conclusion. Nope, the Supreme Court didn’t say that. MSCHF Prod. Studio, Inc. LEXIS 32063 (2d Cir.

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Facebook Can Reject Unwanted Ads–Newton v. Meta

Eric Goldman

The court dismisses the contract and IIED claims on Section 230 grounds. That will not do The court cites King v. The court defers considering whether 230 could preempt it too. Google ruling from 2007. (The Wikipedia entry gives some clues about why the movie may not have performed as well as the producers hoped).

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Section 230 Immunizes Bing’s Search Results–White v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

The court agrees with Microsoft. ’…the trial court was correct to grant summary judgment finding Microsoft immune from Mr. I’ve stopped tracking all of the times Section 230 has immunized search results. 2007); Shah v. Among other defendants, he sued Microsoft for Bing search results linking to the episode.