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Justia Legal Resources: Workers’ Compensation Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

While some denials arise from minor issues like failing to submit required documentation, others involve more significant problems with the claim. To minimize their costs, workers’ compensation insurers sometimes may unreasonably deny a claim, or unreasonably defend a denial during the appeals process.

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Justia Legal Resources: Products Liability Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Negligence involves showing that the manufacturer or other defendant failed to use appropriate care. Sometimes punitive damages also may be available if the defendant engaged in egregious misconduct. What Happens When a Defendant Cannot Pay? The mechanic then can identify and document any problem with the brakes.

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Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit

Above the Law - Technology

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. The product, which is in beta, generates a Microsoft Word document formatted for the federal court system. Facts sympathetic to your client.

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Section 230 Applies to Publication of Court Documents–Medina v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

Microsoft’s filings made some unredacted disclosures about Medina that were repeated in an unredacted court opinion, and those documents appeared on several websites that publish court documents. He then sued the court document repository websites (and other defendants) for defamation, false advertising, and more.

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Photos in a Similar Style Aren’t Copyright-Infringing–Woodland v. Lil Nas X

Eric Goldman

Lack of Access Courts have consistently held that posting works on the Internet, without more, doesn’t ensure that the defendant had “access” to them for purposes of copying-in-fact. But even the narrower standard invites a lot of tendentious data-mining about the defendants’ social media activities.

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A Judge Enumerates a SAD Scheme Plaintiff’s Multiple Abuses, But Still Won’t Award Sanctions–Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather v. Schedule A Defendants

Eric Goldman

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. See ECF No.

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3 Main Benefits of Managed Document Review in eDiscovery

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3 Main Benefits of Managed Document Review in eDiscovery Getting around the maze of papers in any court case may be quite difficult. Document review, or the thorough examination of records to ascertain their significance, privilege, and secrecy, is an essential part of electronic discovery.