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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APRIL 2, 2025

million emergency department visits for unintentional injuries were recorded in 2021 ( National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey ). Filing statistics: Nearly 400,000 personal injury claims are filed annually across the United States, predominantly in state courts ( U.S. Department of Justice ).

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

Online addiction lawsuits are proliferating across the country, a trend that will continue so long as plaintiffs think they can win. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen. Aiding and Abetting The plaintiffs pointed to a 2021 decision by Google not to launch the Character AI model pre-spinout. Character.ai

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JULY 13, 2025

Her lawsuits claims she’s also a professional real estate agent. Biden didn’t become president until January 2021. Like the many dozens of failed account termination/content removal cases preceding this one , the court easily dismisses the case. A woman who wears many hats. ’s decisions are here.

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JUNE 29, 2025

4] In 2021, many other manufacturers also offered ADAS, with at least 97 models featuring adaptive cruise control with lane-centering steering. [5] 6] Between July 2021 and May 2022, 273 of the 392 crashes related to driver assistance systems involved Tesla vehicles. [7] 10] In October 2023, Tesla won the first U.S. 8, 2024, 7:18AM).

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. When I first blogged this case in January 2021, I wrote: This lawsuit, like many others before it, claims that UGC services like YouTube commit illegal discrimination based on how they moderate content. Elenis Supreme Court ruling, but I wonder how it might apply to this case.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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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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Eric Goldman

MARCH 10, 2023

Represented by lawyers Maria Cristina Armenta and Credence Elizabeth Sol (who keep expanding their oeuvre of failed lawsuits against Internet services), Daniels claimed YouTube had to comply with 1983 because YouTube became a state actor. In 2021, the court quickly shut down that misguided argument. My blog post on that ruling.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. Then, in 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges related to the fraud and forgeries I’d written about in 2016.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I wrote an expert declaration about them in 2021). The court says that the merchant made a descriptive “fair use” of the “emoji” term, but the court didn’t actually say that “emoji” qualifies as a descriptive trademark, instead of an arbitrary mark, for stickers.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

This paper explains the scheme, how it bypasses standard legal safeguards, how it’s affected hundreds of thousands of defendants, and how it may have cost the federal courts a quarter-billion dollars. This paper traces its origins to my 2021 expert declaration in an Emojico case. Have a stress reliever toy handy when you read this.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. But courts don’t always use facts like that for petard-hoisting, instead grounding their rulings in legal doctrines and admissible evidence. Yet, the court bails YouTube out.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. Twitter, produced Supreme Court rulings last year. In light of that conclusion, the court declined to rule on the parallel Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. Hierl was the lead counsel on the Emojico case I opined on in 2021.] * * * Jurisdiction The defendant Bigfinz sells t-shirts. The court says “none of Bigfinz’s t-shirts were sold in Illinois.” TIL: Roblox regularly uses the SAD Scheme.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

See all stories about this lawsuit. district judge in Delaware but who last month became a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — sided with ROSS. ” As to whether TR’s lawsuit against ROSS was, itself, sham litigation, Judge Stark concluded it was not. 31, 2021. Judge Leonard P.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On January 4, 2024, the North Carolina Justice for All Project (JFAP) filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the state of North Carolina claiming unlawful infringement upon their fundamental right of free speech to provide simple legal advice to North Carolinians. But this, of course, is not the end to JFAP’s story.

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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. In the spring of 2021, he relocated to Montana and revamped his contracting business. ” The court cites Force v. A series of other negative reviews followed.

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Previous LawX projects have resulted in the development of SoloSuit , to help consumers respond to debt collection lawsuits, and which spun off as a private company , and Hello Landlord , designed to help tenants more effectively communicate with their landlords about issues that can lead to eviction. Addressing Downstream Data.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiff Guo Wengui’s motion to compel production of a report (the “Report”)—and related materials—prepared by forensic vendor Duff & Phelps in Guo’s lawsuit against the law firm that formerly represented him, Clark Hill, PLC (the “Firm”). 19-cv-3195 (JEB), 2021 WL 106417 (D.D.C.

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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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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Public access to court data through automated collection of online court records is a fundamental First Amendment right and it is critical to meaningful access to the United States legal system. The recent ruling in South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Savoy, 2021 N.C. July 28, 2021). Grant, 2021 Ariz. March 31, 2021). Facebook, 2021 Cal. June 21, 2021). 2019) (“As courts uniformly recognize, § 230 immunizes internet services for third-party content that they publish, including false statements, against causes of action of all kinds.”). Superior Ct.

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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

JULY 29, 2023

Paul Davis is a lawyer and a self-described “ J6er ,” i.e., a participant in the January 6, 2021 U.S. The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. Capitol insurrection. This ruling primarily deals with venue.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A major NFT case was decided on February 8, 2023 as the French luxury fashion house Hermès won the MetaBirkins lawsuit against the artist, Mason Rothschild. Tell me more about the MetaBirkins lawsuit Hermès had filed suit against Rothschild for his MetaBirkins project in the U.S. So what happened? What does this verdict mean?

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JANUARY 4, 2023

This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. Superior Court, to claim an Xcential invention as its own and to throttle us for, among other allegations, misappropriation of trade secrets. Superior Court in October. We now have multiple court dates on our calendar in the new year. The Holy Grail? Here comes Goliath.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Supreme Court TransUnion decision. Individuals whose personal information was compromised in a data breach have had mixed success in bringing lawsuits in federal court against the companies that held their data. June 25, 2021) will likely create new uncertainties. This is Part 1 of a two-part article on the recent U.S.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

In November of 2021, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), the body responsible for hearing trademark disputes with the USPTO, issued a ruling siding with the Examiner in rejecting Snap’s trademark application.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 13, 2021

Supreme Court TransUnion decision. On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a significant opinion on standing in the context of consumer class actions in TransUnion LLC v. The Supreme Court affirmed that certain members of a class action lacked standing—and therefore could not be members of the class. The Opinion.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. Supreme Court.

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Centerbase

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Because of this, it has fallen to the courts to determine how the ADA applies to websites. The courts have looked to Title III of the ADA, which requires that every owner, lessor, or operator of a “place of public accommodation” provide equal access to users who meet the ADA’s standards for disability. population has a disability.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Nonetheless, we can foresee future legal battles, even class action lawsuits, arising in this arena. In 2021, the Chilean government enacted a constitutional amendment protecting brain activity and data. Employment law Employers may come to see neurotechnology as a tool to enhance productivity and monitor employee performance.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Earlier this month, three artists initiated a lawsuit against Stability AI, DevianArt, and Midjourney, which are some of the leading A.I. The lawsuit alleges copyright infringement because these companies have been using images of the artists’ work to train their programs to produce similar work without their consent.

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