CloudNine

JULY 10, 2025

AI in the Courtroom: Insights from Judge Braswell | Masters Conference: Denver June 24, 2025 | Article by Sheila Sadaghiani At the Masters Conference in Denver, Co on June 24 th , Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell laid out a powerful framework for how courts are grappling with AI today. And Judge Braswell did not let us down.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement. The defendant conceded summary judgment on liability, and the court held a trial on damages. This post covers the court’s ruling following the damages trial. The court runs through multiple considerations: Defendant’s state of mind.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 3, 2025

Brett Trout In a significant decision for copyright law and legal technology, Judge Stephanos Bibas granted partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters, rejecting ROSS Intelligences fair use defense in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of Westlaws legal content.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 2, 2025

What really happened was that the judge gave a jury instruction that confused the hell out of the jury, and so the jury returned a meaningless and indefensible verdict, one that was certain to be appealed. On January 22, Booking.coms renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) was granted. But this court says, not so.

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Clio

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Whether youre a law student attempting to master case briefing, or a lawyer seeking to re-learn this skill to advocate more effectively, this blog post provides a useful cheat sheet to make tackling case briefs more efficient. Unlike legal briefs , case briefs are not submitted to the court or opposing counsel.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In my last post , I discussed how evolving technology will continue to influence our relationships and thus, impact family law. However, unlike phone calls, text messages leave a written record that can later be reviewed, and, in some cases, used as evidence in court. This is often the case in family law matters.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 23, 2025

Shopify said California courts lack personal jurisdiction over it. The district court agreed with Shopify, as did a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit. The en banc court issues a total of four opinions, and collectively they show Shopify was never close.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

MAY 18, 2025

Competition and Markets Authority, and the European Commission pledged to remain vigilant about the risk that algorithms can allow competitors to share competitively sensitive information, fix prices, or collude on other terms or business strategies in violation of our competition laws.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Thomas Claburn A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot. Dinsmore in December ordered [PDF] Ramirez to appear in court and show cause why he should not be sanctioned. In a report [PDF] filed last week, Mark J.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 24, 2025

Brett Trout A federal court in San Francisco just handed down a ruling that is shaking up authors and AI users alike. Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, did not break the law by training its models on copyrighted books—at least not when it comes to how the books were used.

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Clio

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Treating people fairly and equitably when resolving conflict or disputes may seem like common sense, but it doesnt always happen in practiceparticularly in the justice system In this post, well explore procedural justice and why its important in the practice of law and the courtroom. What are the 4 pillars of procedural justice?

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 9, 2025

Extensively citing Chabolla , the court rejects the arbitration request. The court says Plex’s relationship context cuts against TOS formation. The court’s treatment of the sign-up screen’s call-to-action is perplexing (no pun intended). Plex offers free video streaming.

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Clio

JUNE 5, 2025

To have case information at your fingertips, whether you are heading into court or running in and out of the office, try Clio Manage and see how this cloud-based practice management tool can simplify your trial work. Another aspect of trial preparation is dealing with opposing counsel and the court prior to trial.

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

This is where law firm predictive analytics come to the rescue. By leveraging AI and other technologies, law firms can uncover patterns and trends across vast datasetsturning raw information into actionable insight. What is predictive analytics for law firms?

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In a ruling with potential implications for other pending generative artificial intelligence (AI) copyright cases, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH & West Publishing Corp. ROSS Intelligence Inc. some creative spark.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The lower court found that the seller’s thumbs-up emoji constituted assent to the buyer’s offer and awarded the buyer $82k (Canadian) in damages. On appeal, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals affirmed the decision on a 2-1 vote. The lower court judge should feel good about his work. Prior blog post.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Toyota brought a SAD Scheme case against 103 defendants before Judge Daniel in the Northern District of Illinois. As I recently mentioned , Judge Daniel is calling out overreaching joinder allegations in SAD Scheme cases. Judge Daniel responds unambiguously: “None of these arguments are persuasive.” Do better).

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MatterSuite

JANUARY 6, 2025

In most countries, you’ll find either a common law system or a civil law system. These systems play a key role in how laws are created, interpreted, and enforced, ultimately shaping the judicial process in each country. What is Common Law? Evolution: The law may change and grow as new decisions and cases come about.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JULY 10, 2025

This engaging, practical session explores how to transform your legal writing using the Betty Flowers framework, a four-stage writing process that every attorney should know: Madman, Architect, Carpenter, and Judge. Gutierrez of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 24, 2025

District Court for the Southern District of New York suggests that CISOs might be outside of point-blank range. On July 18, 2024, Judge Paul Englemayer dismissed most of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)s landmark cyber enforcement case against SolarWinds Corp. However, a recent decision from the U.S.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Talk about court red-handed Thomas Claburn Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents that cite non-existent legal cases.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 1, 2025

To dispose of various motions, the court must construe the statutory term “social media platform.” The court recognizes this drafting flaw: the text of the social media platform definition is broad. –the court sides with the statutory text and its massively overbroad definition. 230(e)(3).

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 25, 2025

The court summarizes the plaintiffs’ allegations: D.G. The court dismisses Roblox, Google, and Apple from the case. The Court has no trouble concluding that Roblox Corp. The Court has no trouble concluding that Roblox Corp. In a footnote, the court adds: “Plaintiffs argue that they seek to hold Roblox Corp.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the main court for resolving patent issues) issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. The Court’s Analysis Applying the two-step framework from Alice Corp. Brett Trout On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Fox Corp. (No.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

[A surprising ruling from Judge Bibas (sitting as a district court judge by designation) in the Thompson Reuters v. Note 1: the court’s analogy to chiseling marble is wholly unpersuasive because sculptors have a wide range of freedom to express themselves, while summarizers of court opinions do not.

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lennyesq

MAY 2, 2025

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS A lawyer who wanted his pleadings to stand out has been ordered to remove a large purple dragon watermark from each page of a lawsuit that he filed in federal court. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan ordered lawyer Jacob A. The court is not a cartoon.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

Pandabuy initially no-showed in the case, so the court converted the TRO to a preliminary injunction. Pandabuy eventually showed up in court and explained how it operates more like a passive facilitator than a seller or manufacturer. This additional context prompted the court to dissolve the injunction. SAD Scheme Cases Suck.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In other words, the plaintiffs are trying to use venerable legal doctrines to create a common-law notice-and-takedown scheme. The court dismisses the case entirely with leave to amend. Such allegations fail to state a claim under products liability law. This doctrinal move doesn’t work. Strict Products Liability.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

But courts may take divergent paths on those issues, especially given the fact-specific nature of many of the plaintiffs challenges, which depend not only on their specific claimed rights but also on the way each AI company has trained their model and how those models function. Showing Substantial Similarity of Generative AI Outputs.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This is a copyright SAD Scheme case before Judge Harjani , appointed to the Northern District of Illinois ealirer this year. In this ruling, Judge Harjani questions joinder on his own initiative. In this ruling, Judge Harjani questions joinder on his own initiative. ” Most likely, this case falls apart.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As we previewed in our 2024 AI year in review , one of the big areas to watch in 2025 will be how much discovery courts are prepared to order into the inner workings of AI companies, especially in the face of arguments that discovery would reveal trade secrets or would be overbroad in cases based on specific claimed works. What Happened?

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Brett Trout

APRIL 10, 2025

Because patent law isnt just about filling out forms and submitting diagrams. Why Litigation Experience Matters in a Patent Attorney One of the most overlooked but highly valuable assets in a patent attorney is litigation experience specifically, experience arguing patent cases in federal court.

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Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 30, 2025

Privacy law is a growing and dynamic area of practice for many attorneys. The history of privacy law The roots of privacy law in the U.S. The history of privacy law The roots of privacy law in the U.S. It was in 1917 that a judge ruled there were protections for the contents of sealed mail.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2025

So where exactly is the Ninth Circuit’s law on this topic? The defendant claimed that the First Amendment barred the lawsuit “because the claims would interfere with Defendant’s First Amendment discretion to choose its own content moderation policy,” citing the O’Handley district court case. ” What?

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. The court displayed all of the photos side-by-side, so of course we’re going to look at them. I guess that makes me old-school. So I think this is a SFW post.

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MatterSuite

JULY 22, 2025

They are court-recognized obligations that prevent data loss and help organizations maintain credibility in legal proceedings. The court expects prompt, thoughtful action. Delay can lead to serious court consequences. When litigation seems likely, the first critical step is preserving data. Legal holds aren’t optional.

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Lawyerist

JULY 11, 2025

Think of the things that law school prepared you for: logical reasoning, research, analysis, writing, perhaps even courtroom presentation. What did law school not prepare you for? Kollect Delivers Results with Proactive AR Management Managing AR in a law firm can be time-consuming, uncomfortable, and inefficient.

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