Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

MARCH 21, 2025

9] Hearing the case on appeal, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of anti-monopolistic requirements, ordering the divestment of these major studios from their cinemas to ensure more widespread competition. [10] 12, 2022), [link] [9] Id. [10] 12, 2022), [link] [14] Id. [15] Paramount Pictures, Inc. Paramount Pictures, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 11, 2025

Thats the basis for a recent opinion from a Florida federal district court that could have major implications for online services CSAM detection and reporting practices. Now, however, a district court decision suggests that providers can no longer take it for granted that they wont face liability for reporting non-CSAM.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The complaint was brought under the FCA’s qui tam provisions, whereby a private citizen can bring a lawsuit on behalf of the government. Decker further alleged that Penn State had provided false self-attestations of compliance to federal agencies from at least 2017 to 2022. Penn State and DOJ reached a $1.25

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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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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

million in 2022 ( National Safety Council ). Distracted driving was reported to contribute to 3,308 fatalities during 2022 ( National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ). 289,310 people were injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes involving distracted drivers in 2022 ( National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ).

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

But, in 2022, the Fourth Circuit seemed to turn its back on Zeran in its Henderson v. However, it’s another indicator that circuits outside the Third are likely to disagree with the Anderson ruling, virtually ensuring the conflict will reach the Supreme Court. (In The court says: M.P. Public Data ruling.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Now, courts will have the benefit of a “pre-publication” version of the Copyright Office’s long-awaited Report on Generative AI Training (the “May 2025 Report”). Adding to the uncertainty, the day after the pre-publication report was released, the Trump administration dismissed the Register of Copyrights—a move she is challenging in court.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

3] The city of Norfolk has deployed 172 ‘Flock Safety’ ALPRs, resulting in numerous lawsuits. [4] 6] The lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief that would constitute the use of these cameras as a Fourth Amendment violation and would permanently enjoin the City of Norfolk and its police department from operating the Flock cameras. [7]

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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. For more on Chase’s tragedy, see the People magazine story or the Social Media Victims Law Center’s press release about the lawsuit.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JUNE 29, 2025

2] With 42,514 people dying in motor vehicle crashes in 2022, many of which were related to human error, ADAS can not only help keep drivers and passengers safe, but also protect other drivers and pedestrians. [3] 6] Between July 2021 and May 2022, 273 of the 392 crashes related to driver assistance systems involved Tesla vehicles. [7]

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2025

[Note: lawsuits over takedown notice attacks occur occasionally. ” GM claims that in October 2022, Focus “conspired to de-list certain of GM’s Amazon listings” by claiming that GM was peddling counterfeits items. The district court dismisses some of GM’s claims but allows others to proceed.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 18, 2025

WeChat blocked Sun’s account in 2022, allegedly because Sun was discussing Chinese politics. As the court says, the “conduct of private parties typically falls outside the scope of protection offered by 1983,” and that’s true here: Plaintiff does not allege any state action that would sustain a 1983 claim.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In July 2022, the FTC also blocked Meta from acquiring a small virtual reality startup. By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. Break them up.”

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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. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down. Gavelytics. million in funding.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In July 2022, the FTC also blocked Meta from acquiring a small virtual reality startup. By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. Break them up.”

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every SAD Scheme lawsuit is problematic, though the specific reasons may differ. Each lawsuit creates dozens or hundreds of individual dramas, few of which receive any public scrutiny, and usually comes at the cost of due process and the rule of law. 1:21cv1452 (MSN/JFA), 2022 WL 9874815, at *5 (E.D. ” Ontel Prods.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The court describes the phenomenon: This case is one of many in the Northern District of Illinois’s “cottage industry” of “Schedule A” cases. As of March 2022, over 1,900 such cases had been filed. Few defendants appear in court, so plaintiffs move for default judgment and collect what funds they can.

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Legal IT Group

APRIL 28, 2023

In March 2023, Meta Platforms lost a class action lawsuit against the Dutch Data Privacy Stichting in an Amsterdam court, acting in conjunction with the Consumentenbond, the Dutch Consumers’ Association. Thus, investigating the issue of processing sensitive data for advertising purposes, the court determined in paragraph 13.14

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 5, 2024

This post covers an opinion where the court assumes such vertical integration based on the pleadings (it remains to be seen if that’s actually the case). The court says that Pixels could be “counterfeiting” the Canvasfish online store (?) .” That story is still being written. Trademark Infringement.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 20, 2022

2022 What does “unfair competition” mean from an American legal standpoint? One should note, however, that the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) bans any “unfair methods of competition,” and, according to Supreme Court precedent, any infringement of the Sherman Act, the heart of American antitrust law, violates the FTC Act as well.

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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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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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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 12, 2023

The district court didn’t act on the motions, which acted as a pocket denial. The appeals court reverses, dismisses Hah’s lawsuits, and orders Hah to pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees. The appeals court says that the contract damages allegation was conclusory and insufficient, so that claim fails too.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

I previously blogged this case in 2022. I summarized: This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” The court dismisses them all. The 9th Circuit reverses the district court on the Section 230 dismissal, but it proves inconsequential because all of the claims fail for lack of merit.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

” The court is not impressed with Amazon’s position: the burden is on Amazon as the party seeking arbitration to show that it provided notice of a new TOS and that there was mutual assent to the contractual agreement to arbitrate. The court shreds this argument: That assertion stands the law’s notice requirement on its head.

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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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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. take place.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. The 15 startups with the most votes will get the opportunity to be featured at TECHSHOW, which will be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. 28, 2022, at 11:45 p.m.

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Brett Trout

MAY 6, 2024

Brett Trout In 2022, Amazon formally launched its Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) program, billing it as an efficient way to resolve claims when a seller on Amazon is infringing your patent. Finally, if the accused seller files a declaratory judgment of noninfringement, Amazon will abide by the court’s ruling.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

San Fernando Valley Alarm, 2022 Cal. 20, 2022): “Defendant fails to establish applicability of the CDA based on the first element: “the defendant be a provider or user of an interactive computer service.” ” * Doe v. Grant, 2021 Ariz. LEXIS 1327 (Az. Superior Ct. March 31, 2021). Offerup Inc., LEXIS 49865 (Cal.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 20, 2023

After a warning, Amazon again yanked his authoring privileges in February 2022 (the phrases that offended: “many Millennials are woketards” and “Wuhan plague”). The court dismisses the case. In a footnote, the court adds that Amazon’s reservation of rights in its sole discretion may waive the implied covenant.

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LawSites

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. Superior Court) in third.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 18, 2023

Google The last major decision applying section 301(a) to a breach of contract claim was delivered by the Second Circuit in 2022 in ML Genius v. There are more than 300 opinions by federal courts dealing with the express preemption of contracts, and within them two main approaches have emerged. ML Genius v. A third approach?

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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. We will vigorously defend ourselves against this lawsuit and any claims that are without merit.” Shein is no stranger to lawsuits. What’s Next?

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. At the circuit court level, the law of copyright preemption of contracts is a circuit split-plus, with at least two and as many as four differentiating positions on what might constitute preemption. 2d 426, 433 (8th Cir.1993)

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