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Justia Legal Resources: Guide to Lawsuits and the Court Process

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

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. What Can You Ask a Court To Do? What you want the court to do is usually called a remedy. This is an order that tells the defendant to do or not do something.

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Justia Legal Resources: Foreclosure Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The Foreclosure Law Center provided by Justia aims to illuminate what can be a complex process. In a judicial foreclosure , the lender seeks a judgment from a court to foreclose on the home. On the other hand, a non-judicial foreclosure allows a lender to foreclose on the property outside court.

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Justia Legal Resources: Workers’ Compensation Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The Workers’ Compensation Law Center at Justia provides insights on how the process unfolds. Even if a business labels a worker as an independent contractor, they still are considered an employee if they meet the definition of this term under state law. Ultimately, they might pursue an appeal in state court.

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Website Accessibility for Law Firms: Is Your Site ADA Compliant?

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Your website plays a critical role in how potential clients discover, evaluate, and ultimately choose your law firm. This means your law firms website needs to be accessible to people with vision, hearing, mobility, and cognitive impairments. So, which level should your law firm aim for? Law firms are not exempt.

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

Berkley Technology Law Journal

What our limited case law tells us In some cases, judges have displayed strong displeasure at a party trying to pass the buck by crying “deepfake” without basis. Khalilian , defense moved to exclude a voice recording ostensibly showing the defendant making threats on the grounds that it could be deepfaked. In Huang v.

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When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v. KMC

Eric Goldman

The defendant, Kalita Mukul Creative, ran community-focused newsletters. The defendant published a bio on Sewell and included one of McDermott’s photos–apparently sourced from an unrelated Instagram account (possibly another infringer, or perhaps that account has a fair use defense?). Defendant’s financial benefit.

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Amazon Must Defend “Yelp Law” Claim–Ramos v. Amazon

Eric Goldman

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ rights to post reviews on Yelp). the not-as-a-mark doctrine).