Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 17, 2025

By 2023, over 97.4% These issues have culminated into legal actions, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions (EEOC) first AI hiring discrimination lawsuit against a companys hiring program that automatically rejected female candidates over 55 and male candidates over 60.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2023

” Lops also had an unsuccessful lawsuit against Facebook. YouTube, LLC, 2023 WL 2349597 (D. March 3, 2023). The post YouTube Defeats Trademark Lawsuit–Lops v. Case Citation : Lops v. The complaint. YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 9, 2023

” Whether this lawsuit is only about the account suspension or also includes the loss of data access, it winds up as another failed lawsuit over account terminations and content removals. Twitter Corporate Office , 2023 WL 8452200 (S.D.N.Y. Case Citation : Thomas v.

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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. For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 31, 2023

2023 WL 5493823 (N.D. 23, 2023) The post Lawsuit Over Twitter Suspension Fails Again–Zhang v. Case Citation : Zhang v. Twitter, Inc. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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. 2023 WL 2414258 (N.D. In 2021, the court quickly shut down that misguided argument. Alphabet Inc.

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Trellis.Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On November 22, 2023, the lawsuit against Lizzo by three of her previous backup dancers had its first court hearing.

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

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lennyesq

JUNE 9, 2025

was my cut of the payout from a class action lawsuit: the “Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation” case (not to be confused with the “Facebook, Inc. IN EARLY APRIL of this year, after more than a decade of litigation and a $90-million settlement, Mark Zuckerberg sent me forty bucks on Venmo. To be clear, it wasn’t Zuck personally. That $40.67

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JUNE 23, 2025

Candidate, 2026 GenAI’s threat to authenticating evidence In June 2023, the story of Mata v. By Audrey Mitchell, J.D. Avianca swept the nation— the first highly publicized case of AI-hallucinated citations in a brief. A multitude of hallucinated citation cases have since followed, often eclipsing their underlying cases in terms of publicity.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 24, 2023

The lawsuit claims the BPOs were TikTok’s proxies. The court also allows an exception to the general rule due to the supply of unsafe equipment, i.e., the faulty sorting software for reviewer queues. * * * Similar lawsuits by content moderators have failed, including Garrett-Alfred v. 2023 WL 3484215 (N.D. Cognizant.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 21, 2024

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. Apparently the publication took place in 2019 and he filed suit in 2023. The post Section 230 Preempts Two More Harassment Lawsuits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. ” Defamation. Harassment.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

19, 2023) Selected Prior Blog Posts on Product Shots Copyright Lawsuits Over Product Shots Are Stupid–eTrailer v. FragranceX The post Copyright Lawsuits Over Product Shots Are Still Stupid–SMS v. Pharmaaid Corp. , 1:23-cv-01777-EK-TAM (E.D.N.Y. Pharmaaid appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Lawsuits over content removals never succeed. The post Anti-Vaxxer’s Lawsuit Over Channel Removal Fails–Mercola v. In a different context, there is an avenue to export content: if YouTube terminates a user’s access for service changes.” ” Cites to Lewis v. YouTube , King v. Case Citation : Mercola.com LLC v.

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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 (?). Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. In 2023, the EU launched its Digital Services Act. Then, in Liapes v.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 20, 2023

We used to see lawsuits like this 15+ years ago, but we don’t see them any more because they are so obviously doomed by Section 230. Bradford, 2023 U.S. The post Facebook Easily Defeats Lawsuit Over User Posts–Hicks v. Whoa, what a flashback. This case involves a shooting of police officers. LifelongLearning.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

To that end, I am giving a couple of public talks on the paper: Tarrant County Bar Association , Texas A&M Law School, Fort Worth, TX, March 27, 2023. 32nd Annual DePaul Law Review Symposium , Chicago, April 14, 2023. Free RSVP! I would welcome yours.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

billion settlement in 2023 with U.S. In 2023, the Department of Defense issued guidance that mandated foams on military bases combat fires without the use of PFAS. In 2023, the Department of Defense issued guidance that mandated foams on military bases combat fires without the use of PFAS. Most notably, 3M had a $10.3

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lennyesq

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The lawsuit in question was filed in late 2023, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft used articles from the Times to train ChatGPT and other models and readily displayed the content of articles from the newspaper when asked – all without permission, the Times claimed.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 13, 2023

2023 WL 4475581 (N.D. July 11, 2023) The post Reddit Defeats Lawsuit Over Removal of r/WallStreetBets Moderator’s Privileges–Rogozinski v. For now, this case adds to the canon of account termination/content removal cases by treating changes in moderator privileges as a subcategory of the phenomenon. Reddit, Inc.

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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. For example, a recent FTC lawsuit filed in December 2020 seeks to undo Meta’s acquisition of two social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

2023 WL 5017711 (D. July 28, 2023). Platkin, 2023 WL 6389744 (D.N.J. 29, 2023): the content at issue in this case is the digital firearms information that DD published, from 2012 through 2020, to its own website, DEFCAD. Miller, 2023 WL 6385816 (E.D.N.Y. 22-CV-6831 (JGK), 2023 WL 3791652, at *3 (S.D.N.Y.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2023, the justice tech ecosystem continued to grow rapidly, with a significant increase in solutions addressing access to justice-related challenges for consumers. featured in ABA Journal , Pulse 2.0 , Bob Ambrogi’s LawNext podcast , and Accelerator Insider , and its executive director, Maya Markovich, was named to the 2023 Fastcase 50.

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CloudNine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A recent Arcadis study highlights a 42% surge in construction lawsuits in North America from 2021 to 2022, attributing this spike to ongoing COVID-19 effects, supply chain woes, and escalating material costs. The post eDiscovery in AEC: Navigating Legal Complexities in 2023 appeared first on CloudNine.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 30, 2024

The court says that Printify took appropriate steps when it learned of infringing items via Atari’s lawsuit: First, Printify searched its own database for the 70 URLs identified by Atari in ECF No. The court summarizes the proceedings: Atari initially moved for an ex parte TRO, which the Court granted on October 24, 2023.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Less than four hours later, attorney webpages geared toward crash victims and their families were popping up, and in less than 24 hours, law firms were announcing retained clients and new lawsuits. PT on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. The course begins promptly at 11:00 a.m.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In response, she has brought several trash lawsuits, which have gone as well as you’d expect. Her latest trash lawsuit claimed that social media, the government, and Procter & Gamble were all doing the RICO against her. The court dismisses the lawsuit on several grounds, including res judicata. The complaint.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. 6] Despite these challenges, plaintiffs are not slowing down, and new lawsuits were filed at a steady clip over the course of 2024.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 10, 2023

.” For reasons unclear to me, the plaintiff thought it would be a good idea to sue Amazon over its competitors’ alleged misdeeds, going so far to breathlessly issue a press release that it had “filed a $500 million lawsuit against tech giant Amazon.” Case Citation : Planet Green Cartridges, Inc. v Amazon.com, Inc.

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LLRX

JULY 15, 2023

Four highlights from this week: The potential healthcare privacy risks of ChatGPT; “Shadow libraries” at heart of mounting copyright lawsuits against OpenAI; Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data; and Cooper Davis Act Would Force Tech Companies to Flag Users for Drugs.

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Clio

AUGUST 16, 2023

IBM Security recently released its 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report. This report studied 553 organizations that experienced data breaches between March 2022 and March 2023 to help IT, risk management, and security leaders understand the impact. This can include a loss of trust in your firm and malpractice lawsuits. million.

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lennyesq

JUNE 22, 2025

The flawed citations, or “hallucinations,” appeared in an April 30, 2025 declaration [PDF] from Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen in a copyright lawsuit music publishers filed in October 2023. But Chen was not responsible for introducing the errors, which appeared in footnotes 2 and 3.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. Fyk’s alleged injury has no connection whatsoever to any conduct by the United States, the only defendant in this lawsuit. 2023 WL 3933719 (D.D.C. June 9, 2023). Fyk’s lawsuit does not accurately describe Section 230.”]

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is yet another online content removal lawsuit, and it reaches the obvious and inevitable result that dozens of cases have reached before it. The lawsuit against Facebook for refusing the film ads is an easy dismissal. The only question at issue is whether the lawsuit treats Facebook’s refusal as a publisher/speaker action.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On November 22, 2023, the lawsuit against Lizzo by three of her previous backup dancers had its first court hearing. Continue reading → The post Behind the Bench: Unpacking Judge Epstein’s Inquiries in Lizzo Lawsuit Hearing first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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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. Independent lawsuits against 1,099 defendants would cost $440,000+ in filing fees.

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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. In Fall 2023, the district court asked the plaintiffs to provide a proposed Fourth Amended Complaint (FAC). Two of those cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v.

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