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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Finally, my Twitter account is still active, but I haven’t posted there in many months. I’ve instead made Bluesky my primary social media home.

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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

In 2010, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment. For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram. Ticketmaster has been the primary ticketing service provider in the U.S. 15 U.S.C. §

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

When it launched, I questioned in an Above the Law column whether it was a case of Clearspire déjà vu, recalling the demise of the strikingly similar dual-entity firm Clearspire, which opened in 2010 and shut down four years later. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down.

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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

In 2010, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment. For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram. Ticketmaster has been the primary ticketing service provider in the U.S. 15 U.S.C. §

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0 TikTok bans.

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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

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2010) , the Cardinal court considered three factors in declining shift the subpoena costs to the SBA: (1) whether the non-party has an interest in the outcome of the case; (2) whether the non-party can more readily bear its costs than the requesting party; and (3) whether the litigation is of public importance. .” Referencing DeGeer v.

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Don’t Be Late and Ineffective with Litigation Holds

Joshua Gilliland

The City of New York, 50 unnamed NYPD officers, and the former NYPD Commissioner are involved in a civil rights lawsuit over allegedly issuing summonses without probable cause, violating the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, if true. Stinson , at *8. Stinson , at *10-11, referencing Floyd v.