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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. After one of the clients notified him of the dismissal, the alarmed attorney filed a motion to reconsider and reinstate the case, attributing his failure to respond in a timely manner to “new filtering rules in his email inbox,” which moved the dismissal order to his junk mail folder.

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Be a Stoic to Win in the Workplace

Attorney at Work

The stoic attitude toward problems is well-summarized by the title of Ryan Holiday’s 2014 bestseller “The Obstacle Is the Way.” They’ve guided business and political leaders since 180 A.D. Aurelius stated the base idea of his philosophy in “Meditations”: Marcus Aurelius. Stoicism is about action.

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How Does FDIC Insurance Work for Lawyer Trust Accounts?

Clio

How does FDIC Insurance work when a bank failure occurs? When a bank failure occurs, the FDIC insurance will reimburse deposits up to the standard insurance amount. Since the start of the FDIC insurance program in 1934, no depositor has lost a penny of insured funds as a result of a failure. What is FDIC Insurance?

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

[Eric’s note: this is the post you’ve been waiting for: Prof. Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. This post is 11,000+ words long, so you may want to block out some time to enjoy this properly.] By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 21-869 (May 18, 2023).

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Danielle Keats Citron is Right, Protecting Intimate Privacy is a Freedom of Expression Issue

Berkley Technology Law Journal

In her new book, The Fight for Privacy , Danielle Keats Citron argues that failure to adequately protect digital privacy could have a chilling effect on the public’s ability to exercise their first amendment rights to free expression. Conference of Catholic Bishops. How did The Pillar obtain this sensitive information?

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Armslist Defeats Lawsuits Over Illegal Gun Sales (Without Section 230’s Help)–Webber v. Armslist

Eric Goldman

But the failure to prevent unlawful conduct is alone insufficient to state a claim for aiding and abetting. Armslist publishes users’ classified ads for guns. Two estates sued Armslist for allegedly facilitating illegal gun sales that led to murders. My blog post on the district court rulings. In this case, the answer is no.

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A Roundup of Recent Section 230 Decisions Involving Sex Abuse or CSAM

Eric Goldman

is directly on point; the Court held that willful ignorance of a provider, without more, cannot sustain a violation of a sex trafficking statute such as 2252 or 2252A… Plaintiffs here have notand it appears they cannotallege that Apple knew of the specific five CSAM videos sent to Doe, nor of the CSAM videos that Doe sent back.”