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

Berkley Technology Law Journal

As courts have interpreted this law broadly, many argue that online platforms have abused such immunity and hold too much power. Courts have repeatedly ruled that private companies, including social media platforms, are not state actors and thus are not bound by the First Amendment in the same way the government and public entities are.

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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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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. Court filings [PDF] reference that California requires consent from both parties for recordings.

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

Brett Trout

But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen. Although he appealed the expiry, the appellate court denied his appeal, finding that Taillefer not having a backup system for receiving emails regarding the maintenance fee payments was an accident waiting to happen.

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Video Game Addiction Case Mostly Sent to Arbitration–Orellana v. Roblox (Catch-up Post)

Eric Goldman

It is one of the many video game addiction lawsuits percolating throughout the courts nationwide. Epic added that in 2019 with a time-limited opt-out, which the children didn’t exercise. Without showing the initial TOS page, the court labels it a “clickwrap.” The court applies the law formalistically: N.O.

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Reddit Challenges Anthropic’s Scraping to Create Generative AI Models (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

But on June 4th, Reddit sued Anthropic in the Superior Court of California for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, trespass to chattels, tortious interference, and unfair competition. Almost all of the major legal scraping precedents happened in the Northern District, and it is definitely unusual that this was filed in state court.

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Facebook Compelled to Comply With Washington Political Ad Transparency Law (Catch-Up Post)–State v. Meta

Eric Goldman

The superior court found that Facebook violated this law and awarded $35M in penalties and attorneys’ fees as well as an injunction. In December 2024, the appeals court affirmed everything. First Amendment The court says that campaign disclosure laws usually get “exacting” scrutiny (like intermediate scrutiny).

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