Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2025

Focus claimed that GM was “counterfeiting,” and a judge hearing an ex parte TRO wouldn’t have had any reason to doubt that–until it heard GM’s grey market goods explanation, in which case Focus’ story would fall apart. 2025 WL 1226629 (S.D.N.Y. StopTheSADScheme Case Citation : GM Photo, LLC v.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Below are summaries of the semifinalists, who have been selected by a panel of judges from all applications submitted. BriefCatch Elevator Pitch: Empowers lawyers and judges to edit legal documents to the highest standards while helping their clients win, boosting their writing skills, and enjoying expert explanations, models, and examples.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2025

Plausible allegations that YouTube “generally benefitted from sex traffickers’ use of [its platform]” do not establish that YouTube’s “own conduct” violated section 1591 Case Citation : In re YouTube Trafficking Litigation , 2025 WL 1745759 (N.D. Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B.

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Lawsuit Litigation Litigator Court 93

Eric Goldman

APRIL 28, 2023

If passed, the bill goes into effect July 1, 2024 with the first round of DPIAs due July 1, 2025. The District Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Bonta case on July 27th. Recently, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard the bill for informational purposes. The bill is currently pending approval by both chambers.

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Data protection Court Hearing Judge 133

Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

(As we know, Generative AI has a bias towards telling the engagers what they want to hear, so this type of “encouragement” is currently inherent in Generative AI models). That, combined with the novelty of Generative AI and the judge’s uncertainties about the technology, flummoxes the judge. May 21, 2025).

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Lawsuit Defendant Court Failure-to-appear 92

Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In those cases, the district court judge has drawn its distinctions between claims based on third-party content and claims that don’t depend on the content per se. 18, 2025) Prior Blog Posts About Grindr Section 230 Defeats Underage Users Lawsuit Against GrindrDoll v. This panel reiterated that the 230 exceptions have limits.

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Lawsuit Failure-to-appear Defendant Court 64

Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 23, 2025

Administrative and regulatory law should be an active area of legal practice in 2025, as the courts and the federal executive make changes to agency regulatory authority. All of this signals a busy 2025 for attorneys working in regulatory law, as well as lawyers who encounter regulation in other areas of practice.

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Dispute resolution Law Law Hearing 52

Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In November 2024, a magistrate judge dismissed the plaintiff’s claims against OnlyFans on Section 230 grounds. The plaintiff objected to the magistrate’s R&R, but the supervising judge rejects the objections. 2025 WL 336741 (S.D. 30, 2025) MORE ON DOE V. Unsurprisingly, this judge thinks the Anderson v.

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Defendant Lawsuit Judge Court 59

lennyesq

JUNE 13, 2025

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay of Judge Bryer’s order. The Ninth Circuit set a hearing on June 17, 2025, before Judges Bennett, Sung, and Miller. See Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Application For Temporary Restraining Order. Order Granting Administrative Stay.

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Judge Lawsuit Hearing Court 68

Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v. That outcome conflicts with both prior Ninth Circuit precedent and the jurisprudence in the California state courts, and at least one lower-court judge has already pushed back on it. In Bride v.

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Law Law Court Lawsuit 101

Eric Goldman

MAY 26, 2025

2025 WL 1314179 (N.D. May 6, 2025) Prior blog posts ( 1 , 2 ). Previously in this case, Judge Coogler denied Pornhub’s motion to dismiss, certified a class of plaintiffs, and denied summary judgment to Pornhub. The case got reassigned to a new judge, and Pornhub requested permission to make an interlocutory appeal.

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Defendant Failure-to-appear Court Judge 55

Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Note: Backpage shut down April 2018, but Backpage-related litigation continues into 2025 and beyond]. In light of the strong hostility to Section 23o among the Fifth Circuit judges, every Section 230 case that reaches the Fifth Circuit is likely to be a jurisprudential roller-coaster. Note: the opinion was written by Trump 1.0-appointed

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Defendant Court Lawsuit Judge 59

Eric Goldman

JUNE 5, 2025

The incident sparked outrage, culminating in a hearing last June where the students families called for federal action. The revised bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent in February 2025. Recall that The Heritage Foundations Project 2025 mandate explicitly calls for the elimination of online pornography.

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