Clio

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

MAY 18, 2025

The DOJ amended the complaint in January 2025 to include the names of six major landlords who participated in this scheme with RealPage. This ruling suggests that courts are willing to scrutinize algorithmic pricing practices that contribute to market dominance and restrict competition. The recent decision in U.S.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 2, 2025

The JMOL had two primary conclusions: First , that the CFAA has extraterritorial application, and therefore it was appropriate for this court to apply the CFAA here. But this court says, not so. It wanted a worldwide, enforceable court order to get Booking and its affiliates to stop reselling Ryanair flights. Van Buren v.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 9, 2025

Extensively citing Chabolla , the court rejects the arbitration request. The court says Plex’s relationship context cuts against TOS formation. The court’s treatment of the sign-up screen’s call-to-action is perplexing (no pun intended). Plex offers free video streaming.

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Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 30, 2025

For lawyers, this is an opportunity to provide more complex legal services in 2025. Supreme Court rulings have found that the First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth amendments of the Constitution contain a right to privacy. Heading into 2025, eight states will see their new privacy laws go into effect. Note the dates.

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Wisblawg

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Illinois Supreme Court has released its new policy on generative AI use in courts , effective January 1, 2025. The court recognizes that AI misuse could jeopardize due process or equal protection, warning that misleading AI-generated content that creates bias or interferes with truth-finding will not be tolerated.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JUNE 23, 2025

PT on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Alissa’s trial experience led to her recognition by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney in 2024. Supreme Court decisions, this webinar offers a rare opportunity to track constitutional shifts that affect domestic violence litigation. Register for free today !

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lennyesq

JUNE 9, 2025

Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services (2025) resolved a long-standing circuit split by rejecting heightened evidentiary requirements for “reverse discrimination” claims under Title VII. Lower courts dismissed her Title VII claims, requiring her to show “background circumstances” (e.g.,

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JULY 22, 2025

CLE Webinar & Speaker Details The presentation will begin promptly at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT on Wednesday, July 31, 2025. Whether you’re a seasoned litigator or new to handling digital evidence, this session will provide the essential knowledge needed to stay effective and compliant in today’s tech-driven legal environment.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

The ban entered into force on 2 February 2025. However, although persuasive, the Guidelines are not authoritative and the EU AI Acts application is likely to be refined by its practical implementation and the courts in the future.

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MatterSuite

MAY 22, 2025

Mitigate Malpractice Risks and Legal Disqualifications Overlooking conflicts invites catastrophic consequences: malpractice lawsuits, court sanctions, or forced withdrawal from cases. The Bottom Line: In 2025, Conflict Checks are About Survival The legal landscape has changed. The benchmarks are clear.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 25, 2025

” (Plus, the court notes that while he’s in prison, his job prospects are limited). Section 230 The court says it doesn’t need to address Section 230 because the claims all fail on their prima facie elements. Rajala , 2025 WL 1383286 (N.D. ” It does not go well for him.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JULY 22, 2025

ET on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. You’ll come away with an actionable framework for shaping a jury that’s more open to your case narrative and less susceptible to the other side’s. Register for free today ! CLE Webinar Details & Speakers The presentation will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 25, 2025

2025 Automated decision-making technologies ( ADMTs ) are systems that analyze personal data to predict or decide outcomes about individuals, often without human input. By Ilke Okan LL.M., These tools can determine whether someone is approved for a loan, lands a job interview, or is flagged for extra screeningall with limited transparency.

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lennyesq

JUNE 22, 2025

AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat Thomas Claburn An attorney defending AI firm Anthropic in a copyright case brought by music publishers apologized to the court on Thursday for citation errors that slipped into a filing after using the biz’s own AI tool, Claude, to format references.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 11, 2025

The court disagrees but gives plaintiffs leave to amend. (As The court says these allegations aren’t good enough in light of Hamidi. First, the court says the mere placement of cookies, without more, doesn’t show any actual injury to the plaintiffs. The court cites Doe I v. 2025 WL 1635956 (E.D.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2025

” The plaintiffs brought a pre-enforcement challenge to the law, but the court denies a preliminary injunction. The court explains: Deepfakes are image, audio, or video files that mimic real or nonexistent people saying and doing things that never happened. The court does realize the overlap here, right? ” Hmm.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2025

G6 presented the court with a screenshot of Motel 6’s standard account creation process: G6 added the red box for the court. Normally, we’d expect the court to pixel-police this screen, looking for defects. Thus, the court denies arbitration of this case. G6 Hospitality LLC , 2025 WL 1254382 (C.D.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Brett Trout On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the main court for resolving patent issues) issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. The Court’s Analysis Applying the two-step framework from Alice Corp. Fox Corp. (No.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As we previewed in our 2024 AI year in review , one of the big areas to watch in 2025 will be how much discovery courts are prepared to order into the inner workings of AI companies, especially in the face of arguments that discovery would reveal trade secrets or would be overbroad in cases based on specific claimed works. OpenAI, Inc.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JUNE 7, 2025

Candidate, 2025 Introduction Nowadays, AI tools can not only generate full sentences and pictures, but can also produce voice clones using audio samples as input. However, courts have not yet adopted this opinion. By Xiaoyun Hu, LL.M. For instance, in Thomson Reuters v. In Batlin v.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JUNE 14, 2025

In March of 2025 , the product’s patent protection finally expired. Despite two years of litigation, the ultimate question of infringement never reached the court. The parties presumably reached an adequate resolution amongst themselves and requested the court to dismiss the case prior to trial.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 20, 2025

This collaboration features award-winning legal technologists Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell as they test drive Green Filings new Auto File tool, designed to read and incorporate filing content directly from the court documents.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The court says that the plaintiffs’ allegations treat AFF as the data controller and Confirm ID as the data processor, and that’s sufficient to acknowledge the affiliate relationship. Second, the court turns to the TOS formation question. On the minus side, the court notes that the call-to-actions are in smaller gray font.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 25, 2025

The court summarizes the plaintiffs’ allegations: D.G. The court dismisses Roblox, Google, and Apple from the case. The Court has no trouble concluding that Roblox Corp. The Court has no trouble concluding that Roblox Corp. In a footnote, the court adds: “Plaintiffs argue that they seek to hold Roblox Corp.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Talk about court red-handed Thomas Claburn Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents that cite non-existent legal cases.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2025

The defendant claimed that the First Amendment barred the lawsuit “because the claims would interfere with Defendant’s First Amendment discretion to choose its own content moderation policy,” citing the O’Handley district court case. The court disagrees. 2025 WL 819567 (C.D. ” What? ” What?

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Despite the busy 2024 litigation year against companies offering AI platforms in 2024, significant intellectual property questions remain unanswered as the calendar turns to 2025. 2025 may bring some clarity to the legal status of AI, including through highly anticipated guidance from the U.S.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

Pandabuy initially no-showed in the case, so the court converted the TRO to a preliminary injunction. Pandabuy eventually showed up in court and explained how it operates more like a passive facilitator than a seller or manufacturer. This additional context prompted the court to dissolve the injunction. SAD Scheme Cases Suck.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The court issues him a chastising warning against using unauthorized pseudonyms. In this case, Affleck posted 38 comments on Harvard Crimson articles, using 2 different names (not specified by the court). The court implies that perhaps Affleck’s comments were anti-Zionist? 2025 WL 330577 (D. Raycom , and more.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2025

The district court granted summary judgment to YouTube. Qian seemed to claim that he didn’t get any notice and explanation about YouTube’s actions as he thought the TOS required, but the court disagrees. YouTube, LLC , 2025 WL 582785 (2d Cir. Qian sued YouTube for breaching its TOS. The Second Circuit affirms.

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The Barrister

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, the Charleston School of launched its renamed and reorganized Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession. Hernandez 2024-2025 Sol Blatt Jr. 2141 (2023) ︎ Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college admissions – SCOTUSblog ︎ Id. Harvard , 3 the U.S.

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lennyesq

MARCH 4, 2025

The paper also sued because the county barred county employees from talking to reporters, but the court says this equal protection claim is duplicative of the retaliation one. BRIEF / February 25, 2025 Read the ruling here. BINGHAMTON, N.Y.

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lennyesq

DECEMBER 24, 2024

13, 2025, by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), hours after a Monday court ruling reinstated the reporting requirement. 1, 2025, BOI reporting deadline pending a further order of the court. The injunction was issued in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. Garland , No. 4:24-CV-478 (E.D.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 1, 2025

To dispose of various motions, the court must construe the statutory term “social media platform.” The court recognizes this drafting flaw: the text of the social media platform definition is broad. –the court sides with the statutory text and its massively overbroad definition. 230(e)(3).

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. The court displayed all of the photos side-by-side, so of course we’re going to look at them. I guess that makes me old-school. So I think this is a SFW post.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 23, 2025

Shopify said California courts lack personal jurisdiction over it. The district court agreed with Shopify, as did a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit. The en banc court issues a total of four opinions, and collectively they show Shopify was never close. Briskin sued Shopify for a variety of privacy violations in California.

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