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

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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Eric Goldman

MAY 19, 2023

These allegations meet the “far more active form of participation” required to survive this stage of the proceedings [Just a reminder that the court’s casual suggestion that Omegle could adopt age verification technology might itself be an unconstitutional requirement. The age verification battle will ultimately reach the Supreme Court.]

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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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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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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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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

JULY 23, 2023

Analogous to how narrowing interpretations rendered the SAVE Act irrelevant (FOSTA’s precursor), the court’s interpretations decrease the odds that the government will bring FOSTA-based prosecutions. ” Later, the court recapitulates: “FOSTA does not criminalize promoting prostitution broadly. .”

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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

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. It’s absurd – and, frankly, a little embarrassing for him.”

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition to the direct participants in the scheme, the CFTC pursued Spotex, which the court says “provided a ‘white label’ software suite…[to] generate online account records with various back-office tasks.” The court treats this as a relatively straightforward Section 230 dismissal. ICS Provider.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

Undeterred, on January 5, 2022, Snap filed a federal lawsuit in the Central District of California requesting the federal court to overturn the decision of the TTAB, arguing the “term “spectacles” is an old-fashioned term popular in the 18th century. .”

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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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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

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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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

MARCH 2, 2023

These mass lawsuits are vital in that they offer compensation for painful, and often deadly, diseases. In 2022, more than $145 million was spent on television and social media advertising towards soliciting clients to join the suit. Yet, the amount is likely to double or triple.

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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.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 21, 2022

So, instead of starting your intro like this: “On March 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, issued an opinion in the case of Party v. In light of the Court’s decision, employers and their legal counsel should discuss adopting [policy 1] and [policy 2]. Flip it upside down. You already lost me.).

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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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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeal’s proposed rule on appellants’ use of AI to create filings. Two stories related to DoNotPay — one when the American Bar Association canceled an op-ed that used DoNotPay as an example to argue for regulatory reform, and another when a court dismissed an unauthorized practice lawsuit against DoNotPay.

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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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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. We published a report on the 9 best document automation tools for lawyers in 2022.

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Clio

JUNE 14, 2023

No TikTok on Government Devices Act On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act into law. TikTok has already filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana, claiming that the TikTok ban violates the First Amendment and other federal laws. When will authorities ban TikTok?

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By broadcasting the game exclusively on Peacock, the League demonstrated their willingness to buck the trend of nationally televising playoff games, similar to how the NFL made Thursday Night Football games exclusively available—as opposed to accessible nationwide on local television—on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeal’s proposed rule on appellants’ use of AI to create filings. Two stories related to DoNotPay — one when the American Bar Association canceled an op-ed that used DoNotPay as an example to argue for regulatory reform, and another when a court dismissed an unauthorized practice lawsuit against DoNotPay.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When I first encountered emojis in court opinions, I wondered: what’s unique, special, or different about emojis compared to other ways we communicate with each other? In 2022, Adobe released a report saying that “ (#1), (#2), (#3) are the most misunderstood emoji.” or something totally unexpected?

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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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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 15, 2024

.” Investigations like this should make everyone nervous that they are motivated by censorship and will in fact change content moderation practices, but the court doesn’t seem worried about that at all. The court is way off-base here for reasons I explain in this article. June 17, 2022). Six4Three v. Superior Ct.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Currently, existing projects like these are authorized across the country through state supreme court administrative orders or the Utah regulatory sandbox.(2) who help self-represented litigants in state courts.(9) who help self-represented litigants in state courts.(9)

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 26, 2024

Viewing Heuberger’s comments in the light most favorable to Route, the Court concludes that at least some of Heuberger’s comments are not a “performance assessment of, or other similar analysis of,” Route’s services. Pinho, 2023 WL 3017282 (Cal. April 20, 2023). Patient set up a website, creepyplasticsurgeon.com.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 4, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on February 25, 2015, that state regulatory boards, composed mainly of active market participants, are not immune from antitrust liability unless actively supervised by the state government. Soon after, in June 2015, LegalZoom cited the Supreme Court decision on teeth whitening in a $10.5

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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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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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