Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

However, unlike phone calls, text messages leave a written record that can later be reviewed, and, in some cases, used as evidence in court. We have all heard about the lawsuit involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. A single message sent in anger can shape how the court perceives a party. Brandt at www.cozen.com.

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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. copyright law.

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Clio

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unlike legal briefs , case briefs are not submitted to the court or opposing counsel. Some basic elements of a case brief include summaries of the facts, procedural history, the main legal issue of the case, and the courts holding. However, there are other essential steps in writing a useful case brief.

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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

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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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This is the instant-classic lawsuit involving a Saskatchewan farmer who text-messaged a “thumbs-up” emoji in response to an offer to buy his flax. 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. Prior blog post.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. Courts have widely rejected claims that AI models themselves are unlawful derivatives of the copyrighted works they were trained on. [3]

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2025

Last year, the Ninth Circuit said that plaintiffs could get around Section 230 in their lawsuit against the app maker YOLO because the app maker said it would ban users for inappropriate statements and would unmask harassers. The court disagrees. This opinion raised numerous Section 230 jurisprudential issues. ” What?

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Brett Trout

APRIL 10, 2025

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. It could be the difference between owning IP that looks good on paper and IP that actually protects your market.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 25, 2025

A federal judge stepping in to put the brakes on OpenAI and its new venture with famed Apple designer Jony Ive. Startup IYO, spun out of Google’s moonshot X lab, just won a major victory in its lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Ive’s design studio LoveFrom. The lawsuit alleges this wasn’t just a coincidence.

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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective operation of the services’ reporting tools, but the plaintiffs’ goal was to hold the services accountable for their alleged inaction in response to some reports. The court dismisses the case entirely with leave to amend. This doctrinal move doesn’t work.

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

These predictions are based on analysis of large datasets, often including judicial decisions, court filings, case law, and other legal data. For example, by analyzing court decisions, a predictive analytics tool can assess your possible chances of winning using certain procedures and estimate the potential costs and awards.

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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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Brett Trout

JULY 9, 2025

The problem is that you may not find out about those critical defects until you try to enforce the trademark registration against an infringer and end up with a judge invalidating your entire trademark registration. In one case I recently posted about, a judge stopped OpenAI from using the IO trademark on its new AI product.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 28, 2025

The court summarizes: Plaintiff does not argue that Modlily appears in the product name or description of these listings, or anywhere on the webpage itself. Echoing Patmont, the court said the “post-domain path of a URL, however, does not typically signify source. Patmont was followed by Interactive Products Corp.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

BY MATT BRACKEN Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. Tom Krause and Marko Elez , two DOGE-connected special government employees of the Treasury Department, were granted read-only access to Bureau of Fiscal Service systems as needed for the performance of their respective duties, the judge ruled.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 7, 2025

”] This lawsuits raises one of the venerable but surprisingly vexing copyright law questions: when is a price copyrightable? Note: the court surely meant Nivoda, not Rapaport. This lawsuit was filed in early January. Kudos to the judge for getting this case to a resolution in four months. the abysmal CDN v. .”

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

For litigation lawyers, it can predict how a case might play out in court, which makes it easier to decide if its worth settling or going all the way. Theyre especially helpful for lawsuits or investigations that involve large amounts of information. What Are The Benefits of Adopting AI-Powered Legal Tech? Not really.

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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. Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderZaful v. Case Citation : Viral DRM LLC v. Dongguan Juyuan v.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Whether copyrighted works can be freely used to train generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) models is at the core of dozens of lawsuits filed since AI burst onto the scene several years ago. Just one day later, on June 25, 2025, Judge Chhabria handed down a decision in Meta , which cited Anthropic. In Kadrey v.

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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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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. The court opinion includes a screengrab of the tweet (see page 3). This extraordinary assertion, with which Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Faulkner might take issue, [FN] frankly causes this court to wonder whether it is dealing with a litigant whose feet are firmly planted on the ground.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 12, 2025

The court is unclear about how Joybuy operates, but it appears that Joybuy (via the entity JD) runs its own online marketplace. The court says that Joybuy sufficiently established that it ran its own online marketplace and thus qualified as a service provider.

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lennyesq

MAY 17, 2025

They come in the context of the Trump administrations many attacks against lawyers, courts, andperhaps most unexpectedlysome prominent law firms. But most of the firmscall them the settling firmshave struck deals with the administration.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Lawsuit Argues Defendants Violated the Privacy Act by Disclosing Sensitive Data NEW YORKEFF and a coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to stop the U.S. Read more…

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lennyesq

MAY 24, 2025

By Andy Rose ,Elizabeth Wolfe, Samantha Waldenber , Karina Tsui and Helen Regan A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administrations ban on Harvard Universitys ability to enroll international students. US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs ruled hours after the nations oldest and wealthiest college filed suit Friday.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At this point, the plaintiffs are arguing that their claims belong in state court because their allegations are too weak to support Article III standing for federal court. But the plaintiffs found a judge who gave them enough benefit of the doubt to survive a motion to dismiss. That’s a litigation strategy, I guess.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Distribution The court says “the Forms were accessible at the URLs that plaintiff located. ” However, the court says the plaintiff has to allege actual downloading, not just the mere possibility. ” The court also rejects an implied license defense using an overly restrictive test. ” Citing Bell v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. The district court dismissed the case. The Ninth Circuit affirms every point of the district court’s decision. The court says that Grindr’s claim is not a specific promise, is too general to be enforced (I guess it’s like puffery?)

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 21, 2025

In early 2024, the court granted a preliminary injunction against the law going into effect. Borrowing heavily from its prior opinion, the court has now granted the permanent injunction. The court responds: “the Act is not narrowly tailored to protect minors against oppressive contracts.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Supreme Court, with uncertain prospects, so this is probably not the final word on the matter–or possibly even an important one. Still, it’s a troubling ruling as a standalone microcosm of how judges’ attitudes towards censorship and free speech are flexible. The decision will be appealed to the U.S.

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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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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2025

I wrote my Segregate-and-Suppress paper knowing that its publication date might come after the Supreme Court issued its FSC v. Goldman’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Demolition of the Internet in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Court Permanently Enjoins Ohio’s Segregate-and-Suppress/Parental Consent Law–NetChoice v.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 15, 2025

The court preliminarily enjoined the law in 2023. Rather than address whether the social media platforms are engaging in expressive activity, the court focuses on the laws effects on users: Act 689 forecloses access to social media for those minors whose parents do not consent to the minors use of social media. Scrutiny Level.

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