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. This decision largely rejects the defendants’ motion to dismiss, which will induce more plaintiff lawyers to bring more cases. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. If that’s true with the other 18 cases, Roblox may have sued 4,000+ defendants using the SAD Scheme. Hierl was the lead counsel on the Emojico case I opined on in 2021.] * * * Jurisdiction The defendant Bigfinz sells t-shirts.

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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. Case citation : Divino Group LLC v. Google LLC , 2023 WL 4372701 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

” The abstract: This paper describes a sophisticated but underreported system of mass-defendant intellectual property litigation called the “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (the “SAD Scheme”), which occurs most frequently in the Northern District of Illinois as a way to target Chinese online marketplace vendors.

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Law Technology Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

Over 18 class-action lawsuits have been filed against hospitals and counting, alleging they are sharing health data via online trackers. Besides healthcare, we’ve seen plaintiffs’ attorneys bring class-action lawsuits related to sharing video streaming data from websites to Facebook via the Meta pixel under the Video Privacy Protection Act.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2023

(I wrote an expert declaration about them in 2021). One defendant fought back. I believe Emojico has sued hundreds or thousands of defendants because the word “emoji” appears in the product listing to describe an emoji displayed on the offered item. The SAD Scheme helps with that. ” That’s true.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Savoy, 2021 N.C. July 28, 2021). Grant, 2021 Ariz. March 31, 2021). 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. LEXIS 236 (N.C.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the spring of 2021, he relocated to Montana and revamped his contracting business. Because the removal of content is a traditional editorial function, Section 230(c)(1) bars plaintiff’s lawsuit.” Other negative reviews were never removed by Nextdoor. This is a mockably easy Section 230 case: ICS Provider. .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021. Arizona saw an 8% drop in defaults caused by defendants who fail to appear in court. For example, only one state, Texas, collects and makes publicly available information on debt claims lawsuits, including outcomes, across all courts.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The technology may be able to determine a criminal defendants competence to stand trial. How will it interact with a defendants right against self-incrimination? Nonetheless, we can foresee future legal battles, even class action lawsuits, arising in this arena. However, how reliable will this evidence be?

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. At great cost, Xcential has been forced to defend itself with counterclaims and motions for dismissal. Politico’s rankings of federal lobby firm revenues showed Akin Gump in second place in 2021 ($53.4 If anyone at Akin Gump wishes to respond, I would be happy to publish it.].

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Neither Time nor BuzzFeed was named as a defendant. To be clear, the plain language of the Copyright Act requires that the defendant must display a “copy” of the image; but it does not say that the “copy” must necessarily be in the defendant’s possession.] 2021); McGucken v. (See the screenshot on the right). 3d at 593.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 13, 2021

On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a significant opinion on standing in the context of consumer class actions in TransUnion LLC v. Article III grants federal courts the power to redress harms that defendants cause plaintiffs, not a freewheeling power to hold defendants accountable for legal infractions.” The Opinion.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021. Arizona saw an 8% drop in defaults caused by defendants who fail to appear in court. For example, only one state, Texas, collects and makes publicly available information on debt claims lawsuits, including outcomes, across all courts.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2021

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. 20-10249, 2021 WL 2250845 (11th Cir. TransUnion: A Win for Defendants in Breach Lawsuits?

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 7/6/2021. From launch, we closed our first customer in December 2021. Founded: 4/1/2021. Launching January 2022, our AI-driven engine will automate litigation processes like lawsuit and motion drafting, discovery preparation, procedural calendaring and much more by turning days of work into 2-3 minute-long activities.

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

In 2021, an application was filed to the US Copyright office, for copyright registration of a comic book consisting of text and images (created partly by a human and partly by AI tool “ Midjourney ”). Developers should also regularly get their AI systems audited, which will help in defending infringement claims.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Section 230 has largely mooted the tendentious and irresolute mens rea inquiries that vexed the justices in this oral argument, because Section 230 applies even if the defendant had a culpable mental state. If you haven’t reviewed the complaint in this case, it may not be obvious just how unmeritorious this lawsuit is.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

If the Supreme Court upholds the discovery rule for copyright cases, or simply declines to address it, the decision will leave copyright defendants exposed to very large awards for years of infringing conduct (as they have been everywhere but the Second Circuit). Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v. 4th 1236 (9th Cir.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 18, 2023

In May 2021, his Rottweiler got loose while a landscaping company was working at his home. For example, a dog owner might be able to defend a case by showing that the victim provoked the dog or was illegally on the property. They can enhance the joy of good times and comfort us during bad times.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The defendants run a call-center service that attracts prospective legal clients and then makes compensated referrals of the prospective clients to lawyers. The defendants bought competitive keyword ads on Adler’s trademarks, which Adler objected to. The parties most vigorously contest the “actual confusion” evidence.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Or am I defending the deposition? Are you defending the deposition? And we didn’t have quite as many examples where suddenly it’s like, oh, it’s only information from 2021. So that’s what the lawsuit is. And so when I was entering, I took a deposition. But as a litigator know, well, am I taking the deposition?

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2021, the court dismissed the non-FOSTA claims but did not dismiss the FOSTA claim. Snap * The Ninth Circuit’s FOSTA Jurisprudence Is Getting Clearer (and More Defense-Favorable) * Defendants Get Important FOSTA Win in 9th Circuit–Doe v. Marriott * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–GG v.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 26, 2024

Although this distinction does not eliminate all the privacy concerns voiced by the FTC in this lawsuit, it does lessen the severity of the alleged privacy injury. Second, the information that can be inferred from Kochava’s geolocation data is generally accessible through other, lawful means. ” * Florence v. .”

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

The Road Not Taken At this point, no lawsuit had been filed; and the dispute probably could have been, and certainly should have been, easily resolved. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd., 1183 (2021). Copyright Office. Oracle , 141 S.Ct. 4th 26, 32 (2d Cir.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

OCTOBER 3, 2023

She recounts that in July 2021, The Pillar , an online Catholic News website, published an investigation on Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the secretary general of the U.S The End of Privacy in an Increasingly Digitized Era In The Fight for Privacy , Citron reveals that privacy is disappearing. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

is sticking with what he knows best–LAWSUITS. This lawsuit relates to Facebook’s efforts to combat vaccine misinformation, of which Children’s Health Defense (CHD)–RFK Jr.’s Decisions by the defendants to not publish the plaintiffs’ desired content is probably covered by the CDA.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2024

The majority explains that general rule: “plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a Government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek.” ” The plaintiffs didn’t meet that burden in this case (yet).

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Eric Goldman

MAY 19, 2023

A sampling: Defendant could make changes that would minimize predators’ access to children. Plaintiff successfully contends that Defendant did more than “turn a blind eye to the source of their revenue.” Defendant’s entire business model, according to Plaintiff, is based on this source of revenue. ” __ FTC v.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

APRIL 6, 2023

Former president Donald Trump tweeted his distaste for the provision almost 40 times between May 2020 and January 2021. Several justices also voiced concerns about a flood of lawsuit activity that might ensue were the litigation protections of section 230 stripped away.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 7/6/2021. From launch, we closed our first customer in December 2021. Founded: 4/1/2021. Launching January 2022, our AI-driven engine will automate litigation processes like lawsuit and motion drafting, discovery preparation, procedural calendaring and much more by turning days of work into 2-3 minute-long activities.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 14, 2025

Yes, this is a 15-year-old lawsuit.[FN] FN] [FN: This lawsuit is almost old enough to drive a car. The district court’s rulings became final in 2021. Capitol Records (the successor to EMI) sent its first cease-and-desist letter to Vimeo in 2008 and sued Vimeo for copyright infringement in 2009.

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