Eric Goldman

AUGUST 2, 2024

Maybe this was just the jury’s way of telling the judge and the parties, “This case is dumb. This has been a hard case to follow online, because many of the key rulings have been filed under seal. I wrote about this case back in 2022 when the judge made his initial decisions on the motion to dismiss pleadings. 1030(e)(11).

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Trellis.Law Blog

MAY 31, 2023

DeSantis’s Motion Against Judge Walker Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion to recuse the Hon.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

By guest blogger Elizabeth Townsend Gard , John E. Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Step Two: The CCB does a compliance review of the filed claim to determine if the claim qualifies for the CCB. The respondent files a response to the claim.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. Which is probably a big part of the reason that many judges have been eager to distance themselves from it. Zeidenberg , 86 F.3d 3d 1447, 1454-55 (7th Cir.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

After a couple of defendants showed up, the judge denied a TRO extension because of the possible lack of merit in the plaintiff’s infringement allegations. The plaintiff eventually dismissed all of the defendants within 5 weeks of filing the complaint. See ECF No. StopTheSADScheme Case Citation : Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather Co.,

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In a November ruling, a magistrate judge notes that the lawsuit appears to be the first of its kindone in which a social media influencer accuses another influencer of (among other things) copyright infringement based on the similarities between their posts that promote the same products. Sydney Nicole LLC v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 31, 2023

DeSantis’s Motion Against Judge Walker Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion to recuse the Hon. Walker, a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, from presiding over Disney’s lawsuit.

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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. This blog post recaps what’s happened to the Gonzalez case since then. Two of those cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v. Case Citation : Gonzalez v.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

Two top-line takeaways you might get from this post: A two-click formation process avoids the risk of judges moving the goalposts about formation, and If you are amending your TOS, have an airtight plan for building a credible evidentiary record. And I guess pink is overly distracting to this judge? HELLO UETA and E-SIGN.

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Clio

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This blog unpacks what it means to be a law clerk, sharing the ins and outs of the job and offering a roadmap for anyone eyeing this path. A law clerk is a legal professional who supports attorneys, judges, or legal departments by conducting legal research, analyzing cases, and preparing legal documents. What is a law clerk?

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Clio

APRIL 1, 2024

These are just a few of the questions we’ll explore in this blog. Clerks meticulously organize and manage documents and records for a case, ensuring they are properly filed, stored, and readily accessible when needed. Assisting judges and attorneys. So, what exactly does it mean to be a court clerk?

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Recently a judge in my state shared that she presided over a video court appearance where an attorney had his image set to horizontal and apparently couldn’t figure out how to change it. A past ABA TECHSHOW chair, h e blogs at J im Calloway’s Law Practice Tips and co-produces the podcast The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Professor Kenton Brice, director of the Donald E. At least six cases he cited in a brief as filed were hallucinations that did not exist, with fictitious quotes and internal citations. Opposing counsel filed a response brief calling out the bogus cases and moving for sanctions. SO WHY HALLUCINATIONS? China Southern Airlines Co.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The investigations come just one month after a class action was filed in the English High Court against YouTube for allegedly processing children’s data without obtaining parental permission or providing appropriate disclosures (see our September Round Up ). To subscribe to the Data Blog, please click here.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The judge found that the algorithm did not distinguish between legitimate reasons for not showing up to work – such as child caring responsibilities or going on strike – with genuine unreliability, and as a result, held that some workers were unfairly punished by having access to fewer shifts.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

Combining these two holdings, it concluded: “we must apply the discovery rule to determine when a copyright infringement claim accrues, but a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed to determine the extent of the relief available.” By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, the U.S. Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v.

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Dennis Kennedy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Use platforms like blogs, social media, and even webinars to educate your audience on the importance of sustainable tech. When developing products, design with modularity in mind – this way, components can be replaced or upgraded without discarding the entire product, thereby reducing e-waste.”

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Use platforms like blogs, social media, and even webinars to educate your audience on the importance of sustainable tech. When developing products, design with modularity in mind – this way, components can be replaced or upgraded without discarding the entire product, thereby reducing e-waste.”

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking ahead, Riehl sees potential for Vincent AI to leverage external LLMs like Anthropic’s Claude model as well as their massive dataset of briefs and motions to generate tailored legal arguments statistically likely to persuade specific judges on particular issues. That’s exactly right into it to get put a finer point on it.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

Last week on 3 Geeks, I posted a blog that talked about how to use AI to generate summaries of legal articles. Jarvis Gresham of the American Bar Association litigation section interviews Judge Keith and be frank of the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida for the sound advice podcast. AI Generated Librarian as a machine editing a podcast.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

For nearly 30 years, the framework for judging fair use cases has been remarkably stable, based on Justice Souter’s masterful opinion for a unanimous Court in Campbell v. The Road Not Taken At this point, no lawsuit had been filed; and the dispute probably could have been, and certainly should have been, easily resolved. 569 (1994).

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Is it advice, if I decide, yes, I’m going to get a patent, then I file it with a patent or trademark office, that’s the registration service. So this is currently been before the Thaler case where the Thaler had aI generated art, tried to file it with the copyright office saying, I’m not the author, the the robot is the author.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 5, 2023

Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B. US * New Civil FOSTA Lawsuits Push Expansive Legal Theories Against Unexpected Defendants (Guest Blog Post) * Section 230 Helps Salesforce Defeat Sex Trafficking Lawsuit–Doe v. G6 * FOSTA Claim Can Proceed Against Twitter–Doe v.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

5] In a motion passing 3-2 on a party-line vote, the Democratic commissioners removed the Chief Administrative Law Judge (the “ALJ”) from the role of Presiding Officer in Magnuson-Moss rulemaking; Chair Khan or her designee will instead assume the role of Presiding Officer, giving Chair Khan even greater control over future rulemaking efforts. [6]

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Section 230 cases are coming faster than I can blog them. This long blog post rounds up five defense losses, riddled with bad judicial errors. Perhaps Facebook should have done a better job articulating this, but the judge was far too eager to disrespect the editorial function. District of Columbia v. Meta Platforms, Inc.,

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Trial Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Superior Court judge Brian Holeman sided with news organizations, allowing the release of the deposition video from a $10 million lawsuit filed by Trump against chef Geoffrey Zakarian, who had signed a lease to run a restaurant in Trump's hotel in the Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, near the White House.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Two people were listed who had filed friend of the court briefs. As you probably all know, the primary place to get those is the court’s e-filing system, PACER. I click on each one and agree to pay for the privilege to download the files. Neither one downloaded as a readable file. One is 18 pages so $1.80.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In July 2024, Judge Engelmayer dismissed nearly all of the SEC’s claims against SolarWinds and its now-CISO. The Order also found that, in light of the compromise of the external file-sharing environment, Avaya had been negligent in stating that there was “no current evidence” of access to “our other internal systems.”

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

I’m still blogging Section 230 cases as I see them, even though these posts are likely to have only historical value. ] * * * The court summarizes the horrifying allegations: In April 2022, Defendant Bendjy Charles (“Charles”) and Romelus raped Plaintiff. Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B.

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