Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2025

2] The failure to preserve and produce off-channel communications has also resulted in significant adverse consequences in civil litigation, where courts have imposed sanctions for improperly preserved or produced communications. [3] 2020-1061-JTL, 2024 WL 303638 (Del. Denner, C.A.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The district court dismissed the case. The Ninth Circuit affirms every point of the district court’s decision. ” BTW, I disagree with the court’s summation of the Internet Brands case; I feel the Ninth Circuit got that one wrong because that case was always about third-party content. .”

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. The Supreme Court is taking a steady stream of Internet Law cases, a trend that will continue for some time. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v.

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Eric Goldman

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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Eric Goldman

APRIL 10, 2025

In 2020, Facebook and Instagram terminated various Armslist-related accounts, and Facebook prevented users from sending the URL armslist.com in private messages. The state appellate court disagrees. In addition to that flaw, the court says that Armslists allegations of jawboning dont rise to NRA v.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 17, 2025

The court summarizes: The plaintiffs commenced this action in connection with the death by suicide of 16 year old Chase Nasca on February 18, 2022 after he walked in front of a train. TikTok defended on Section 230 grounds. ” The court says the claims “may well be barred” by Section 230. Meta Platforms Inc.

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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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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. Defendants Sued Her First At the time I wrote that, I had not heard back from my request to the defendants for a response to Diaz-Roa’s allegations.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

Microsoft’s filings made some unredacted disclosures about Medina that were repeated in an unredacted court opinion, and those documents appeared on several websites that publish court documents. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The trial court anti-SLAPPED that lawsuit. Hearst case.

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Legal IT Group

MAY 17, 2023

Recently, the Cologne District Court ruled that a German mobile operator’s use of Google Analytics violated the GDPR’s requirements for international data transfers. The Cologne District Court ruling only applies to the defendant in the case, Telekom Deutschland GmbH.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The plaintiff doesn’t indicate whether or not WGNAFM’s photo usage was licensed, but the court seemingly wouldn’t care if it was. Breitbart , the court says that “reposting” on “social media” is enough to find copyright infringement in a default judgment. All excellent points. It no-showed.

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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. LEXIS 32063 (2d Cir.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Puppies, 2020 Ariz. 28, 2020): There are facts from which a jury could determine that Defendants created and/or developed website content making the immunity under Section 230 of the CDA inapplicable and thus summary judgment is not appropriate. There is evidence Defendants’ conduct exceeded standard publication decisions.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the early days of the pandemic, tattoo artist Cramer created this tattoo and tattooed it onto her husband: The tattoo depicts Joe Exotic of Tiger King “fame,” a can of Lysol, some coronaviruses, and the words “Quarantine 2020.” The court also largely sidesteps the documentary’s brief display of the image.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 12, 2023

In 2020, he performed procedures for four patients, Chesson, Gage, Melton, and Robinson (tragically now deceased). ” Despite the contract, the defendants allegedly posted negative remarks about Hah’s work online. Hah sued the four defendants. Wilbur Hah is a board-certified cosmetic surgeon in Texas.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The court summarizes the plaintiff’s allegations: Plaintiff alleges that in October, 2020, he received a negative review on Nextdoor from a former customer. ” The court cites Force v. The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has officially found that operational challenges in Illinois circuit courts will necessitate remote pretrial hearings to comply with the pretrial release provisions of the SAFE-T Act, according to an Order issued in late August.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms. While we are happy to lead an industry disruption, we welcome new competition, which we believe will help accelerate adoption of new AI-powered eDiscovery technologies by courts, law firms, and other stakeholders.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We’ve blogged some of his cases before ( 1 , 2 ), including the lower court ruling in this case. In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” The defendant did not give the specified attribution. ” The district court granted summary judgment to IJR.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

We invented the category of state court analytics. What if I knew whether he leaned plaintiff or defendant? Despite our fast start and many accomplishments, I have been unable to grow the business fast enough to secure sufficient financing to continue. Merrill told me at the time of his 2017 launch.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 17, 2024

When Meta sued Bright Data for breaching Facebook’s and Instagram’s ToS, the defendant successfully argued that since the scraping occurred without logging into its platforms’ accounts, it did not constitute “use” of the platform and thus did not breach the ToS. However, many courts, most famously the Seventh Circuit in ProCD v.

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lennyesq

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Saratoga County, in contrast, showed zero speedy trial dismissals, according to data available on the website of the state’s Unified Court System. That means defendants facing everything from minor harassment charges to allegations connected to violent crimes can walk free. Under Section 30.30 Under Section 30.30

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

The district court said that the buyers who made their purchases on the website had to go to arbitration, but the buyers who made their purchases on their mobile devices could stay in court. The court says it’s immaterial that there is a potentially long time delay between user registration and the purchases. Sadlock v.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. The defendants have not yet filed an answer in the lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2020, BuzzFeed “embedded” one of Hunley’s Instagram posts, featuring one of her photos of a Black Lives Matter protest, in its entirety (again, preserving her username, caption, and hashtags). Neither Time nor BuzzFeed was named as a defendant. Supreme Court. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir. July 17, 2023).

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

Koerner Endowed Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School [See part 1 about defendant opt-outs and part 2 about defendant defaults.] Consistent with the CCB’s small claims court ethos, the case involved both a pro se claimant and respondent. The CCB filing cost is about $300 less than federal court.

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Colin S. Levy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Olof Heggermann is a seasoned professional with a rich background in the Swedish court system, complemented by experiences in banking and law firms. In 2020, he co-founded Eperoto with a team of expert engineers, driven by his passion for technology and a vision to innovate the legal industry.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The online retailer jumped in sales from $10 billion in 2020 to $100 billion in 2022, surpassing the sales of both Zara and H&M combined. In 2020, Perry created and copyrighted a design called “Floral Bloom” for throw blankets. We will vigorously defend ourselves against this lawsuit and any claims that are without merit.”

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As covered in our Annual Review , 2020 was a blockbuster year for European data protection. This was bolstered by the ICO’s announcement that it is resuming investigations into real time bidding and the adtech industry that were paused in May 2020 due to COVID-19. Deliveroo algorithm ruled discriminatory by Italian court.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Compensatory damages or damages between $200 and $1,000 are authorized for each unlawful sale, as are reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs. 2020) (denying motions to dismiss and to strike class allegations against manufacturer of biometric timeclocks where plaintiff-employees did not receive notice or give consent to manufacturer).

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 6, 2023

However, as emphasized on West Point’s website , “After the final play is run and the final whistle is blown, both teams clasp hands and become part of a bigger team – America’s Team – and a greater brotherhood – standing shoulder to shoulder with each other in harm’s way and ready to stand in the gap to defend this great Nation.”

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We help lawyers make evidence-based decisions about the venues they choose and the arguments they make by focusing on the jurisprudence of the judges and courts they interact with. Traction: Active in all 50 states, we have a network of over 12,000 attorneys, 12,000+ expert witnesses, 300+ court reporters, and 150+ interpreters.

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

The term “person” has also been interpreted conservatively by the Courts in respect of copyright law. In 2019, the Delhi High Court rejected a copyright claim over a list compiled by a computer, on the grounds of, inter alia, lack of human intervention. [8] Few of the cases are discussed below.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Michigan’s opinion from 2022 ( MI State Bar Formal Ethics Opinion R-26 ) examines the extent to which lawyers may reveal confidences to defend themselves, following the majority view: The Rule permits disclosure of client confidences or secrets in relevant part, “. The commentary to MRPC 1.6

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Since these models generally evolve, regulators and courts might argue that—in the event of a performance issue or other regulatory concern—the model’s earlier outputs are important to understanding its later performance. Another benefit is the simplicity of the policy, which would make compliance relatively easy.

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