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Court Finally Rejects “Discrimination” Lawsuit Against YouTube–Divino v. Google

Eric Goldman

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. The plaintiffs made several key concessions: plaintiffs do not contend that there is an express contract provision requiring defendants to post plaintiffs’ videos on YouTube. and this lawsuit was filed in 2019, so the provisions couldn’t have been breached at the time of filing.

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Allegations of a Bribe-Driven Facebook-OnlyFans Conspiracy Unsurprisingly Fall Apart in Court–Dangaard v. Instagram

Eric Goldman

After hearing this allegation at least twice, the Court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to go present proof of such a bribe and to specifically subpoena the banks that were allegedly involved in laundering the bribe. This is the basic reason that summary judgment, at long last, must be GRANTED to Meta defendants.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

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They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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Intro to Cybersecurity for Lawyers: Unlocking Your Cyber Sense

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Defending against hackers is not optional; it’s a requirement. It seems every day we hear about another cyber-attack data breach or company getting hacked. Cyber-attacks are becoming so common now that we’re starting to become desensitized to hearing about them. So let’s learn some basic defense techniques. So, what’s going on?

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Guest Post: David the Inventor vs. the Biglaw Goliath – What Drives A Goliath To Take On A David?

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At great cost, Xcential has been forced to defend itself with counterclaims and motions for dismissal. A quick summary: at issue is Xcential’s 2019 patent application for a software invention we call “Bill Synthesis” (or, as filed, “System and Method for Document Extraction and Synthesis”). This invention is a big deal.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Eric Goldman

Koerner Endowed Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School [See part 1 about defendant opt-outs and part 2 about defendant defaults.] In 2019, he had a simple website that included a “Where We Work” page. Screengrabs from October 29, 2019 from the Wayback Machine. By guest blogger Elizabeth Townsend Gard , John E.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Before 2019, the Second Circuit did not express its opinion on this question (although it decided cases dealing with contractual control over unprotected data), but then, almost in passing, it held a contract preempted. The Solicitor General’s Brief After losing at the Second Circuit, Genius asked the Supreme Court to hear its appeal.

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