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Judge Pushes Back on SAD Scheme Sealing Requests

Eric Goldman

Recently, Judge Seeger in the Northern District of Illinois surprisingly refused to grant rightsowners’ defendant identity sealing requests in at least two cases ( 1 , 2 ), but there may be more. In very similar opinions, Judge Seeger explained why defendant sealing is inappropriate. This blog post tracks the Goorin Bros.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

The company it started as in 2013 is not the company it is today. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. In Survey, Judges Say Lawyers’ Incomplete Research Impacts Case Outcomes. In a blog post the company published today, it describes itself as “a ten-year overnight success.”

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CLE: Ethics, Law & Technology

Trial Technology

Join us to learn the most effective ways to engage jaded juries and judges and how to get the best bang for your buck when it comes to using courtroom technology. Light lunch provided. This in-house law firm experience helps bridge the gap often encountered when attorneys work with outside consultants and experts.

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

Eric Goldman

” If it matters, the concurring judge is a DeSantis appointee. 2013 WL 664231 (E.D. 2013); O’Kroley v. But the commerce clause was not intended to nationalize the whole of America law.” I’ve stopped tracking all of the times Section 230 has immunized search results. Here’s an incomplete list: Maughan v.

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A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations

LawSites

An attorney, in 2013 she founded ClearAccessIP, a patent management platform that used AI to help creators and owners manage and distribute their IP assets. ” As it happens, Shanahan is the former founder of a legal tech company. The company raised $3.7 million in seed capital and was acquired in 2020 by competitor IPwe.

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An Interview with Casetext CEO Jake Heller on His Company’s Acquisition By Thomson Reuters

Above the Law - Technology

A Stanford Law School graduate, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review, Heller founded Casetext in 2013 after stints clerking for 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin and as an associate at law firm Ropes & Gray.

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MA Supreme Court Blesses Uber’s TOS Clickthrough Formation–Good v. Uber

Eric Goldman

Ordinarily, I would have called this an amendment to the existing TOS (because all of its existing users had clicked through Uber’s prior process), but since Kauders said Uber had no TOS, the judges treat Uber’s move as a TOS formation in the first instance. The plaintiff, Good, registered an Uber account in 2013.

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