Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The district court dismissed the case. The Ninth Circuit affirms every point of the district court’s decision. The panel summarizes: “Because Does state law claims necessarily implicate Grindrs role as a publisher of third-party content, 230 bars those claims. .” Will a Ninth Circuit panel agree?

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

My ranking of the top 10 Internet Law developments of 2024. There are supposed to be conflicts-of-interest laws that prevent this, but America has become a post-conflicts kleptocracy). 9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. The court did address substantive jawboning issues in the NRA v.

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JUNE 26, 2025

” The court previously described the core allegations: The plaintiffs allege that Onision “ran several YouTube channels” that “targeted minor audiences” and allowed Onision to “groom and lure underage girls.” The court previously dismissed the case on Section 230 grounds and rejected the FOSTA workaround.

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The Barrister

MARCH 6, 2025

7 Within years of the advisory, cigarette sales declined significantly, largely due to the new regulations and laws implemented to combat the crisis. 7 Within years of the advisory, cigarette sales declined significantly, largely due to the new regulations and laws implemented to combat the crisis. Cottrol, Call Number: KF3941.A7

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2025

In those circusmtances, copyright law is an especially attractive tool to the pugilists, with its strict liability standards, amorphous fair use boundaries, high defense costs, and effectiveness of takedown notices. When local disputes devolve into total warfare, the parties grasp for any legal leverage against their sworn enemy.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The appellate court refers to Doe’s behavior as “ capping.” The court dismissed the case on Section 230 grounds. Knowing CSAM Possession The district court dismissed the CSAM civil claim on Section 230 grounds. The 11th Circuit affirms, but relies only partially on Section 230 grounds.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 8, 2025

However, the case fell apart on further proceedings when the court reconsidered jurisdiction and joinder. It’s so typical that SAD Scheme cases can’t survive actual scrutiny, unlike the deferential reviews courts apply at the ex parte TRO stage. Sloppy or nefariousporque no los dos?

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her. “We expect that the New York and Texas courts will rule in favor of our clients,” attorney Shah said in her email.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “30 Under 30.” But one thing for certain is that while some products shut down with a whimper, others go out with a bang.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 16, 2024

Long called Legaltech New York, it was renamed Legalweek in 2017 , and is one of the largest, longest-running and most-anticipated conferences focused on legal technology and the business of law, last year drawing over 6,000 attendees and featuring more than 300 speakers. Legalweek, Jan. 1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Vanderbilt Law School recently launched an exciting new initiative called the Vanderbilt AI Legal Lab (VAILL) to explore how artificial intelligence can transform legal services and access to justice. Students will learn both practical uses of AI in law practice as well as broader policy and social implications.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. . federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. Compose launched with the ability to create core federal court procedural and discovery motions. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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Trial Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We work on both sides of the table, and although our primary market is the California courts, we do cover other areas now and then, including a recent $200M arbitration in New York City. Coincidentally, we recently won awards in New York Law Journal for Best Trial Consultant, and Best "Hot Seat" Trial Technicians!

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

The initial cohort of plaintiffs were conservatives (Prager); but then as a purported “gotcha,” the law firm added LGBTQ (Divino) and people of color (Newman) plaintiff cohorts. But courts don’t always use facts like that for petard-hoisting, instead grounding their rulings in legal doctrines and admissible evidence.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Reynen Court , the so-called app store of law, is reducing its headcount, cutting expenses, and telling vendors on its platform they might experience service delays. Reynen Court has now discontinued the online stock offering. But Andrew D. million round earlier this year. Klein did not say how many people have been laid off.

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Eight students in the LawX legal design lab at BYU Law have developed an online resource, called Goodbye Record , that is designed to address flaws in the process for expunging criminal records in Utah and potentially other states as well. The students initially planned to develop an app to help individuals apply for expungement.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. At the heart of AltFee lies a relentless pursuit of innovation – our platform is built to empower law firms to achieve unprecedented success through non-hourly pricing. What makes you unique or innovative?

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MARCH 7, 2024

T he Caselaw Access Project , part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab , completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million pages from 39,796 law books and converted it all into machine-readable text files, creating a collection that included 6.4 Case Law, Covering 360 Years.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 23, 2023

The transcript:] What got you into the field of internet law? I have been researching and writing about Internet Law for over 30 years. I realized how the Internet enabled important new types of speech–if the law permitted it. Will the courts strike down those regulations? Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google rulings.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

I imagined I was an Iowa lawyer looking to develop a niche in agricultural law. I asked “What are good ideas for a niche legal blog on agriculture law in Iowa?” Overviews of Iowa’s state laws and regulations related to farming and agriculture, including those pertaining to zoning, land use, and conservation.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. The Supreme Court denied cert. Thereafter, he tried to vacate the district court decision, which triggered a new cycle of rejection by the district court, the 9th Circuit, and the Supreme Court. Freedom Def. Initiative v. Sessions, 697 F.

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Trial Technology

JANUARY 1, 2018

The archive is intended to preserve these older articles, which were written prior to the Court Technology and Trial Presentation blog, which I started writing in 2009. Although these articles are somewhat "dated," many of them are still surprisingly relevant. Things are different for writers now, in that you can click, and publish.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to visit its Los Angeles headquarters and record an interview for my LawNext podcast with founder and CEO Rick Merrill and Justin Brownstone , the company’s former VP of sales and litigation counsel. We invented the category of state court analytics.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. VIP Prods. ,

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 19, 2023

Illinois courts can receive grant funding for local access to justice initiatives through the Illinois Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission (ATJ Commission) and the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts Access to Justice Division’s (AOIC ATJ Division) ATJ Improvement Grant. on Monday, June 26.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

LinkedIn and Facebook, most notably, have done as much as anyone to shape the law of web scraping. This is true even though the law does not recognize that they have a property interest in it, and even if though expressly disclaim any property rights in that data in their terms of use. And then, in 2017, the famous hiQ Labs, Inc.

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LawSites

MAY 26, 2022

After two years of virtual conferences, the American Association of Law Libraries is returning to in-person programming for its annual meeting and conference , which takes place July 16-19 in Denver. Yes, the conference focuses on law librarians. Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court. That is a huge mistake.

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MARCH 18, 2024

the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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JULY 29, 2021

Other investors included Jack Newton , cofounder and CEO of law practice management company Clio ; Lightbank ; Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures ; Gaingels , a network of LGBT investors; Lisa Stone , WestRiver Group managing director and former founder and CEO of BlogHer; and EquityESQ, led by San Diego lawyer and investor Ed Diab.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). Do courts fully reopen or not? Also last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court approved a pilot project to permit “legal paraprofessionals” to provide legal services in certain matters. The victim of this limbo is progress.

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Percipient

APRIL 22, 2023

” In Federal Court Responding Party Presumed to Bear Subpoena Costs, but Requesting Party Must Avoid Imposition of Undue Burden and Expense A case from the Northern District of Illinois provides a good analysis of when costs responding to subpoenas may be shifted to the party seeking the documents. Cardinal Growth, L.P. ,

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Clio

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When it comes to law firm billing, hourly billing is still a mainstay of the legal industry. But the billable hour is no longer the only option for law firms. Law firms can reach more clients by offering hourly billing and setting prices for other services. Why should your law firm consider alternative fee arrangements?

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Eric Goldman

JULY 25, 2024

Normally, when a major Internet Law development occurs, I write two posts. In advance of the Moody ruling, the editors of the Cato Supreme Court Review asked me to submit a book chapter based on my inevitable comprehensive post. 98, 107 (2017) for the passage that social media has become the “modern public square.”

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2017, Google ran into these very issues. The court, however, focused on HIPAA’s explicit exemption for research purposes, which allows sharing of information to the extent that the identifiers are removed. Accordingly, the court held in favor of Google. or its ‘business associates’ (such as insurance companies).

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