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The Top Reasons Why Personal Injury Claims Fail in Court

CaseFox

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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512(f) Doesn’t Restrict Competitive Gaming of Search Results–Source Capital v. Barrett Financial

Eric Goldman

March 23, 2023) Plaintiff provides no argument or supporting legal authority suggesting that a Defendant who files a counter-notice pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § And, emailing the Summons and Complaint to a defendant does not satisfy Rule 4’s requirements for proper service. 512(g)(3)(D) waives formal service of process requirements.

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Ripoff Report Gets a Pricey Lesson on Section 230–Selker v. Xcentric

Eric Goldman

Section 230 Ripoff Report claimed that removal was justified because Section 230 completely preempted the state law claims. As such, there was no objectively reasonable basis for Defendant’s to remove the case based on complete preemption by the CDA. Cites to Zeran v. AOL (the district court opinion!)

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Section 230 Applies to Nextdoor Consumer Reviews–Duffer v. Nextdoor

Eric Goldman

The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I Massachusetts’ anti-SLAPP law is old-school and narrow, so Nextdoor didn’t have the option to invoke anti-SLAPP protection. ” The court cites Force v. Massachusetts should fix that.

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The Increase of Criminal Justice Work in September

Martindale-Avvo

There are state laws that dictate avoiding “unnecessary delay,” leaving the defendant in jail for a gratuitous amount of time before they ever see a judge. If the defendant is granted bail and can afford it, they get to go home. Say that your client is arrested for murder in late July or August.

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Court Declines To Compel Employer To Produce Data from Employees’ Personal Mobile Devices

Discovery Advocate

Relying on an employee’s memory without an accompanying thorough discussion – informed by potentially relevant technical considerations of where data may reside and a more robust effort to locate it – is unlikely to constitute a “reasonable search” for purposes of defending a response to a request for non-objectionable discovery.

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Court Declines To Compel Employer To Produce Data from Employees’ Personal Mobile Devices

Discovery Advocate

Relying on an employee’s memory without an accompanying thorough discussion – informed by potentially relevant technical considerations of where data may reside and a more robust effort to locate it – is unlikely to constitute a “reasonable search” for purposes of defending a response to a request for non-objectionable discovery.

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