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Protecting Privacy of a New Corporate Asset: User DNA

Berkley Technology Law Journal

By 2019, more than 26 million people have added their DNA to a commercial ancestry and health database, amassing large collections of DNA in privately held companies. These DNA testing services provide users with information about their health and genealogy, unearthing long lost relatives in addition to potential predispositions to diseases.

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Taylor Swift’s Copyright Battle and Strategic Re-Recording Songs

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Due to the tension between the parties, in a 2019 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the singer confirmed her intentions to re-record her songs. Swift, dissatisfied with Braun profiting from her work, sent a letter to Shamrock Holdings stating she “cannot currently entertain being partners with them.

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Meta’s Fact-Checking Rollback: Governance, Free Speech, and User Safety

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Halleck (2019) , the Supreme Court ruled that private entities are not state actors unless they are performing a function that has traditionally been exclusive to the government. In Manhattan Community Access Corp.

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U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Standard in a “Reverse Discrimination” Case under Title VII

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Case Background Marlean Ames, a heterosexual woman with 15 years of experience at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleged she was denied a promotion to a lesbian colleague in 2019 and later demoted in favor of a gay man. Lower courts dismissed her Title VII claims, requiring her to show “background circumstances” (e.g.,

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Justia Legal Resources: Tax Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The old rules generally still apply to divorces finalized before 2019, but the spouses can agree to modify their settlement agreement to follow the new rules. Now, alimony payments are neither deductible by the paying ex-spouse nor taxable to the recipient ex-spouse. How Do I Fix a Mistake on My Federal Tax Return?

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Apple offers to settle ‘snooping Siri’ lawsuit for an utterly incredible $95M

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Apple Inc , was brought after a whistleblower at Cupertino alleged in 2019 that Siri was listening in on audio conversations without the requisite “Hey Siri” spoken command or manually activating the voice assistant. The class-action case, Lopez et al v.

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How Failing to Keep in Touch with Your Patent Lawyer Can Cost You Your Patent 

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But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen. Their patent agent even emailed them a reminder about the required payment, but the maintenance fee reminders from their patent agent landed in Taillefers junk email folder? When Taillefer failed to pay the maintenance fees, the patent expired.