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Justia Legal Resources: Guide to Lawsuits and the Court Process

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

If youre considering bringing a lawsuit, or if youve been sued by someone else, you may come across a lot of unfamiliar terms and concepts. A section of the Lawyers and the Legal Process Center in the Justia Legal Guides tries to make lawsuits and the court process more accessible to the average person. Whats a Statute of Limitations?

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Deepfaked Evidence: What Case Law Tells Us About How the Rules of Authenticity Needs to Change

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Dfinity , defense moved to disqualify plaintiff’s attorney for making statements caught on video. Judges should remind attorneys that, under this rule, they cannot frivolously assert a deepfake defense. Similarly, in Valenti v. In response, plaintiff sought to introduce an expert report alleging these videos were deepfaked.

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What is the Difference Between a Good Patent and a Bad Patent?

Brett Trout

Brett Trout When people hear the word patent, they often assume its a uniform stamp of protectionsomething rigid, standardized, and identical no matter who files it. In fact,no two patent attorneys would draft the same patent for the same invention. The Art (and Science) of Patent Drafting Think of a patent like a fortress.

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Mass Torts to Watch in 2025

Martindale-Avvo

Social media Several lawsuits claim social media companies, such as Meta, Google, and ByteDance, enabled teen addiction to the platforms and caused numerous mental health issues. Attorneys are expected to rely on law that has worked to protect people from toxic environmental substances.

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What is a Legal Assistant? How to Become One?

MatterSuite

Legal assistants may perform tasks such as sorting or filing documents, preparing appointments and calendars, including trail schedules, and contacting clients and all other parties to lawsuits. This can include preparing or handling legal papers and even assisting an attorney in court. But they are not the same.

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Photos in a Similar Style Aren’t Copyright-Infringing–Woodland v. Lil Nas X

Eric Goldman

Third, the court is correct that a blog post without any promotion can be the tree that falls in the forest that no one hears. So I guess my blog so obscure that even my mom wouldn’t read it. The court only acknowledges search as a form of blog distribution, which is true but incomplete.

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Ninth Circuit Tells Trademark Owners to Stop Suing Over Competitive Keyword Ads–Lerner & Rowe v. Brown Engstrand

Eric Goldman

” Ugh, seriously, nooooo… Keyword metatags are the trees that fall in the forest that no one hears. The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits. Google was a major player in this lawsuit by proxy. They should be legally irrelevant.

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