Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

Defendants Sued Her First At the time I wrote that, I had not heard back from my request to the defendants for a response to Diaz-Roa’s allegations. Subsequently, I received an email from Stefanie Shah , an Austin lawyer with the firm Vela Wood, who represents the defendants. “It is my understanding Ms.

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TechnoLlama

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

A Commercial Court in Barcelona has made a ruling in a novel copyright dispute between fashion shop Mango and the Spanish collective society for artists VEGAP (text of the decision in Spanish here). The dispute involves the adaptation of a number of works by prominent Spanish artists into garments displayed […]

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since then, JusticeText has built a solid base of public defender offices as customers and it recently raised a seed financing round of $2.2 At the time, Mehrotra (pictured above right with Jones-Dove) never envisioned it as a company or a career.

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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. The post Discovery Sanctions…not just for Defendants appeared first on Liquid Litigation Management.

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lennyesq

APRIL 12, 2024

By Charles Lane A federal judge on Friday tossed out a pre-emptive lawsuit from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who sought to stave off legal action by New York Attorney General Letitia James over his decision banning transgender women from playing sports at county-owned facilities, James’ office said.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Devshi Mehrotra was a computer science undergraduate at the University of Chicago when she and classmate Leslie Jones-Dove developed JusticeText , an platform that makes it easier for public defenders to review and analyze the massive quantities of police body cam and other video footage that is becoming increasingly common in criminal cases.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2024

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. A reminder that if the US government had prosecuted the defendants for violating the Clean Air Act, Section 230 would have been irrelevant (it doesn’t apply to federal criminal prosecutions). The defendants sell this hardware. It doesn’t work.

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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. Schedule A Defendants Why Online Marketplaces Don’t Do More to Combat the SAD Scheme–Squishmallows v.

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Relativity

MAY 25, 2023

As popular culture some serious tension in regards to AI, we asked some of our partners to give us their take on artificial intelligence in e-discovery. Interestingly, we found a quartet of common themes woven among them.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

Defendant’s misgivings, meaning any facts that might demonstrate the defendant’s lack of character or empathy. (If you need help, you can click to open the tool that suggests claims based on your facts.) A description of the matter and chronology of events. Any issues likely to be contentious. The relief sought.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 19, 2024

Here’s the court’s entire Section 230 “analysis” (as opposed to its recap of the parties’ arguments): plaintiff has set forth sufficient facts with regard to each defendant to allege viable causes of action under a products liability theory.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Twitter , “the Court [referring to himself in the third person] paid insufficient heed to the requirement that Kelly Toys provide proof of the Alibaba Defendants’ knowledge.” The Court’s contempt Order was therefore improper under Rule 65(d)(2)(C) and must be vacated. .”

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

On Tuesday, February 7th, 2023, Erez Liebermann hosted Vladimir Drinkman for a conversation about the hacks, the prosecution and Drinkman’s role now as he looks to help companies facing today’s cyber threats. Vladimir Drinkman participated in the largest credit and debit card hacking to date.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2024

Note: this case is functionally moot because the defendant, Sunfrog, is already defunct. He ultimately summarizes: “District court decisions within the Sixth Circuit have held that plaintiffs must show the defendant ‘intentionally and knowingly’ copied the copyrighted work.”

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Emojico has trademark registrations in the word “emoji” for a ridiculously broad range of product categories–from (I’m not making this up) ship hulls to penis enlargers–and it then licenses the word to product manufacturers and defendants ensnared in its enforcement net. One defendant fought back.

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Future Lawyer

MARCH 26, 2023

Other changes which limit liability of Defendants are also made. For decades, Florida has been a comparative negligence state, in which a Plaintiff could collect damages based upon its jury determined percentage of fault, even if less than fifty per cent (50%). It should be an interesting next few years in personal injury law.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Someone exploring this chapter of American legal history might want to know more about what the prosecution needs to prove in a murder case, or how a defendant can beat the charge. A key issue in many of these cases is whether the defendant committed the homicide immediately after the provocation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“To be clear, we’ve got more than 70 applications running this technology, more than 10 million API calls a month. It’s been up and running for almost two years now. So we considered it pretty battle-tested technology,” says EyeLevel.ai co-founder and COO Neil Katz about allegations that the technology is “experimental.”

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 30, 2023

For unclear reasons, Kelly Toys expanded the litigation to add online marketplaces Alibaba and AliExpress as defendants. Normally, SAD Scheme rightsowners don’t sue online marketplaces because that brings in well-funded and highly motivated defendants who will jack up the litigation costs substantially. This is an unusual move.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A signature feature of SAD Scheme cases is that rightsowners typically try to seal defendants’ identities. But sealing defendants’ identities directly conflicts with courtroom transparency, a foundational principle essential for trust in our judicial system. Those defendants never reach the default judgment stage.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The court recaps past cases: the crux of the financial benefit inquiry is whether a causal relationship exists between the infringing activity and a financial benefit to the defendant. But in every case, the financial benefit to the defendant must flow directly from the third party’s acts of infringement to establish vicarious liability.

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Relativity

MAY 25, 2023

As popular culture some serious tension in regards to AI, we asked some of our partners to give us their take on artificial intelligence in e-discovery. Interestingly, we found a quartet of common themes woven among them.

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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). Plaintiffs allege hundreds of defendants are infringing their trademarks and selling counterfeit goods. The defendant sold the flag below it.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2023

11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” A successful defendant, by contrast, recovers nothing he didn’t already have. to Defend Rights” * United Federation of Churches LLC v. .” Johnson, No.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2024

These allegations do not treat Defendants as publishers or speakers and therefore are not covered by the CDA. For instance, Quinteros does not allege facts that establish Defendants and moderators have an employer-employee relationship, which could give rise to vicarious liability under Washington law.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

” The article explains how IP rightsowners are twisting the rule of law to obtain ex parte TROs that prompt online marketplaces to freeze the defendants’ cash and accounts. Schedule A Defendants My Declaration Identifying Emoji Co. Emoji GmbH v.

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LLRX

JULY 24, 2023

Cooke , Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and a Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of South Carolina, identifies the significant and socially charged work of librarians who are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battles raging across the U.S. over censorship, book challenges and book bans.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 12, 2023

The court says that conduct sounds like “traditional editorial functions,” and defendants have not “altered or in any way included its own views when displaying the consumer complaints… every complaint and review (which defendants display separately) are posted without comment and input from defendants.”

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Eric Goldman

JULY 26, 2023

for now…) CFAA claims Chegg brought a CFAA claim against the defendant because: 1) its data is behind a log-in screen; 2) Chegg thinks that the defendant got the data while using a free trial; and 3) the defendant is still using the data to undermine Chegg’s core business after getting the cease-and-desist letter.

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Collateral acts as a safety mechanism for the bail bond agent if a defendant cannot pay the fees and falters. This means if your defendant doesn’t pay because of any specific reason, you or your firm won’t face any financial loss. It happens if the defendants are not in a position to fulfill the essential legal applications.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Amazon is an ICS provider: Plaintiff alleges that Defendants “market” and “sell” products to retail consumers “through internet websites.” The court was on firmer ground saying “Plaintiff does not (and cannot) allege that Defendants created any of the third-party statements in the product listings.”

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

” The abstract: This paper describes a sophisticated but underreported system of mass-defendant intellectual property litigation called the “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (the “SAD Scheme”), which occurs most frequently in the Northern District of Illinois as a way to target Chinese online marketplace vendors.

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CaseFox

APRIL 13, 2023

In order to win a personal injury case, the plaintiff must provide sufficient evidence to prove that the defendant was negligent or intentionally caused the injury. If there is not enough evidence to prove the defendant’s liability, the case is unlikely to succeed. Personal injury claims can be complex and difficult to win.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The district court dismissed the contributory claim because the defendants didn’t materially contribute to the infringement. The court says the defendants waived any fair use defense by briefing it inadequately. For unexplained reasons, it does not appear that the defendants are invoking the 512 defense.

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lennyesq

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eisen , Joyce Vance and Richard Painter The motion filed by defendant Michael Roman seeks primarily to do just that – to disqualify Willis and Wade from further participation in this case.

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MatterSuite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When a lawsuit is filed, it is the complaint (or the equivalent initial pleading) that outlines the plaintiff’s grievances or claims against the defendant. Filing a complaint serves the defendant with a copy, which informs them of the claims being made against them. It is a claim made by the defendant against the plaintiff.

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MatterSuite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When a lawsuit is filed, it is the complaint (or the equivalent initial pleading) that outlines the plaintiff’s grievances or claims against the defendant. Filing a complaint serves the defendant with a copy, which informs them of the claims being made against them. It is a claim made by the defendant against the plaintiff.

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