Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Generative AI has transformed how people around the world work; how they create; and what they see, hear, and watch online. Although plaintiffs have been dealt some setbacks, they have responded by bringing new legal claims against a broader class of defendants, making clear that there is no end in sight to these disputes.

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Clio

MARCH 6, 2025

A motion for a change of venue is a legal request where a case is transferred from one court jurisdiction to another to ensure a fair trial and avoid bias or undue influence. Improper venue : If your case was initially filed in a jurisdiction lacking proper legal authority or was filed to the wrong court, it could be transferred.

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Clio

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This includes survivors, witnesses, criminal defendants, and convicts. If youd like to hear from cutting-edge speakers on the movement toward trauma-informed justice and other relevant topics in the legal industry, be sure to register for ClioCon 2025. In other words, what are the advantages of a trauma-informed justice system?

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Brett Trout

JUNE 25, 2025

District Judge Trina Thompson issued a temporary restraining order barring the defendants from using the name “IO” to market their new AI device—at least for the time being. Judge Thompson agreed that the risk of confusion was real enough to justify a temporary restraining order, which will stay in place until a full hearing in October.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Invisible Narratives sought an ex parte TRO to prevent that from happening, which the court grants. The court relies on 512(f) as the basis of the TRO: “Invisible Narratives has presented evidence that Next Level was neither the original creator of Skibidi Toilet nor the lawful copyright owner of Skibidi Toilet characters.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

The court says that Viral DRM’s exclusive “management” rights is not the same as ownership or an exclusive license to the copyright. The court says that Viral DRM doesn’t have standing to enforce the copyright. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Seven West Media Ltd.,

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The rival bought competitive keyword ads (the court uses the term “conquesting,” which I objected to here ) but didn’t include the third-party trademark in the ad copy. The trademark owner sued the advertiser for trademark infringement and lost in the district court. Prior blog post on the district court ruling.

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lennyesq

APRIL 16, 2025

District Judge James Boasberg found “the Governments actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt. None of their responses has been satisfactory, the judge wrote.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 26, 2025

When an important hearing or filing due date changes, staff must adjust multiple related tasks by hand. To help you visualize this better, imagine that you have a Review client file task due March 10, and youve set another task, Identify defendants, thats meant to start one day after the review is completed.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The district court dismissed the case. The Ninth Circuit affirms every point of the district court’s decision. ” BTW, I disagree with the court’s summation of the Internet Brands case; I feel the Ninth Circuit got that one wrong because that case was always about third-party content. .”

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. The Supreme Court is taking a steady stream of Internet Law cases, a trend that will continue for some time. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 26, 2025

When an important hearing or filing due date changes, staff must adjust multiple related tasks by hand. To help you visualize this better, imagine that you have a Review client file task due March 10, and youve set another task, Identify defendants, thats meant to start one day after the review is completed.

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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. Supreme Court has reduced federal agency authority in recent judgments. Basics of administrative law In the United States, legislative bodies pass laws.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

This decision largely rejects the defendants’ motion to dismiss, which will induce more plaintiff lawyers to bring more cases. 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). Character.ai

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2025

” The court previously described the core allegations: The plaintiffs allege that Onision “ran several YouTube channels” that “targeted minor audiences” and allowed Onision to “groom and lure underage girls.” The court previously dismissed the case on Section 230 grounds and rejected the FOSTA workaround.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 19, 2025

.” The standing order gives some examples of those “bizarre” deviations: requested exceptions to the Hague convention’s service and translation services (including email service) that are “almost never even made in other cases against foreign defendants.” ” ex parte TROs.

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lennyesq

APRIL 26, 2025

Accordingly, the defendant, Judge Dugan, is entitled to a preliminary hearing in 20 days to determine if there is sufficient probable cause to support the charges. The questions raised by this disturbing incident are the same as above: What is the Supreme Court going to do about it? The complaint was signed by Stephen C.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The appellate court refers to Doe’s behavior as “ capping.” The court dismissed the case on Section 230 grounds. Knowing CSAM Possession The district court dismissed the CSAM civil claim on Section 230 grounds. The 11th Circuit affirms, but relies only partially on Section 230 grounds.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 26, 2024

” The court completely dismisses the case per Section 230. MySpace from 2008 , the plaintiff made the now-standard modern argument that the Grindr’s lack of age authentication “is a design defect and Defendant Grindr had a duty to take steps to keep children from accessing this app” (citing Doe v. was heinous.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2025

The district court dismisses some of GM’s claims but allows others to proceed. Defamation The court says that GM may proceed with a per se defamation claim based on the takedown notices’ alleged injury to its business reputation. .” GM sued Focus for its takedown notice attacks at Amazon. ” Um, no. (For

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 4, 2023

Federal statutes do not provide clear answers to these questions, so courts will need to confront them. Already, lawsuits involving AI-generated works have been filed in federal courts from coast to coast. This free database provides public records of lawsuits in federal trial and appellate courts. A pending lawsuit in the U.S.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 1, 2024

The court summarizes the allegations: Roblox has a virtual currency designed for use on its platform called “Robux.” The court is unpersuaded. The court doesn’t appreciate this argument: these are children we’re talking about. Roblox The post Roblox Must Defend Illegal Gambling Claims–Colvin v.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The plaintiff sued 163 defendants for online marketplace sales and got an ex parte TRO, including Amazon account freezes. 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. Then, the case fell apart. Proximate Damage.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 27, 2024

JAG Lawyer A Judge Advocate General is a unique opportunity for those who want to defend their country in court. These individuals will have the opportunity to take on significant responsibility, further their education in various legal specialties, and gain experience working around the world to uphold justice for those who defend it.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 21, 2024

“Plaintiff alleges Defendants downloaded and copied Plaintiff’s copyrighted materials from YouTube, and then re-uploaded infringing versions of Plaintiff’s copyrighted media content to their YouTube channels.” ” Viral DRM sued 20 defendants enumerated in a Schedule A and got an ex parte TRO. Jurisdiction.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

After hearing this allegation at least twice, the Court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to go present proof of such a bribe and to specifically subpoena the banks that were allegedly involved in laundering the bribe. This is the basic reason that summary judgment, at long last, must be GRANTED to Meta defendants.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has officially found that operational challenges in Illinois circuit courts will necessitate remote pretrial hearings to comply with the pretrial release provisions of the SAFE-T Act, according to an Order issued in late August. Read the order here.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

The latest ruling addresses YouTube’s motion to dismiss the fourth amended complaint, which the court grants with prejudice. The court asked the plaintiffs to point to the relevant contract provisions that shape the implied covenant. Elenis Supreme Court ruling, but I wonder how it might apply to this case.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

” (Technically, the defendants in this case are enumerated on “Exhibit 1” instead of “Schedule A,” but same thing). The court describes the phenomenon: This case is one of many in the Northern District of Illinois’s “cottage industry” of “Schedule A” cases. The defendant sold the flag below it.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 21, 2023

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK December 21, 2024 Genesis Technology v. Let me say at the outset, it is unfortunate that the Court’s involvement is required here but Defendant’s counsel has obstinately … The Court : Yes, yes, Ms. The Court : Mr. Putkin, why not be transparent here?

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Trial Technology

JULY 20, 2021

Now that the courts are beginning to get back to business, will we continue to have remote witnesses and juries? It used to be a major strategic consideration whether to use TrialDirector and risk appearing as though you were spending too much money, or had very deep pockets as a defendant. So back to our question.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 8, 2024

The SAD Scheme involves a trademark owner suing dozens/hundreds of defendants using a sealed complaint, getting an ex parte TRO, and then having the online marketplaces freeze the defendants’ accounts and money. First, the trademark rules on the street can differ widely from the doctrines drawn up in appellate courts.

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Liquid Litigation Management, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

While it is common to hear about large corporate defendants being sanctioned in huge products liability cases for not properly disclosing information, an individual plaintiff being sanctioned for the same offense is far less common. In the Order Judge Milazzo stated: The Court is troubled by Gahan’s conduct.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The current national standards for public defender caseloads, set in 1973, are “ outdated, not empirically based, and inadequate ” and should be updated for public defenders to adequately represent indigent clients, according to findings from a recent study. that encompass the work of public defenders. Constitution.

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Clio

JANUARY 15, 2025

In an unprecedented move, Broward County Circuit Court Judge Andrew Siegel recently used virtual reality (VR) technology during a stand-your-ground hearing. By immersing himself in the VR simulation, the judge was able to view the crime scene from the defendants point of view, offering a unique perspective on the incident.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 21, 2023

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK December 21, 2024 Genesis Technology v. Let me say at the outset, it is unfortunate that the Court’s involvement is required here but Defendant’s counsel has obstinately. The Court : Yes, yes, Ms. The Court : Mr. Putkin, why not be transparent here?

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