Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Spam Adware and spyware cases Lawsuits over teenagers making teen mistakes online Readers’ Favorite Posts A professor writes: “I’ve been using this for teaching for 15 years… ” A lawyer writes: “In my role I spend a lot of time thinking about arbitration and ToS. You can definitely do better than this!

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JUNE 29, 2025

9] The lack of regulatory guidance on ADAS technology creates challenges and opportunities for litigators. [10] 18] In a court filing requesting to keep the sum private, Tesla said it agreed to settle the case to “end years of litigation.” [19] Tesla Autopilot Lawsuit (2024 Update) , [link] (last updated: Feb. 31, 2023). [15]

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 20, 2023

We used to see lawsuits like this 15+ years ago, but we don’t see them any more because they are so obviously doomed by Section 230. Either way, looping Facebo0k into this litigation was a terrible decision. The post Facebook Easily Defeats Lawsuit Over User Posts–Hicks v. Whoa, what a flashback. LifelongLearning.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 1, 2024

While the decision today doesn’t definitively resolve the future of the Florida and Texas laws, a majority bloc of justices–led by Justice Kagan–articulated some important principles that represent a major victory for the First Amendment freedoms of social media services.

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Lawmatics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There are more than 40 million lawsuits in the United states alone every year. And only 2% of those will ultimately proceed with a lawsuit. Contract and small claims cases comprise the bulk of the civil caseload, and unfortunately, most of these lawsuits are baseless claims, also known as frivolous lawsuits.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Is the attorneys’ fee shift motivating some or all of this lawsuit? I’m sure ShutterStock would have written a $2,131 settlement check to avoid the litigation. Last year, ShutterStock won a very similar lawsuit in Steinmetz v. Otherwise, this case appears to be economically irrational. ShutterStock.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

Also, the definition of “malware” itself includes vague terms, like “disruptive” and “damaging”–and an “etc.” The lawsuit’s lengthy duration and high defense cost has significant substantive implications. ” NOT HELPFUL. We should not presume that we are.”

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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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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

Due to the high risk of data re-identification, we might expect litigation against companies innovating in the healthcare realm to be common. However, besides Dinerstein , this space has not seen many other lawsuits. Entities whose primary business is not related to healthcare are not included within either of the definitions.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 11, 2023

Due to the high risk of data re-identification, we might expect litigation against companies innovating in the healthcare realm to be common. However, besides Dinerstein, this space has not seen many other lawsuits. Entities whose primary business is not related to healthcare are not included within either of the definitions.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. Thus, I always felt the litigation ploy acted as an adverse admission by the plaintiffs. After 5 tries, the Divino LGBTQ lawsuit finally failed last month.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. Once we qualify the copies as “electronic,” it becomes unmistakable that this case deals with intangible items, not traditional “chattel” that are, by definition, tangible items. That lawsuit also failed.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 18, 2023

The rulings should put a decisive end to the genre of lawsuits over social media supporting terrorists; and the Twitter ruling will cast a negative shadow over other cases alleging that social media services facilitate illegal activity. By definition, recommendations are never “passive” or “neutral.”

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Eric Goldman

JULY 25, 2023

This Tom Sawyer approach to e-commerce may or may not deflect Redbubble’s legal liability, a question that is being actively litigated. If so, time to retire it outright and save everyone the litigation expense and drama. RedBubble * IP Lawsuits Against Print-on-Demand Vendors Continue to Vex the Courts–OSU v.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. Supreme Court.

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Debevoise Data Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Many public companies are starting to face increased risks of securities class action litigation based on statements about their use of AI that are alleged to have been false or misleading. Should the AI bubble also burst, companies, officers, and analysts may face a similar spate of securities fraud class action lawsuits from shareholders.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

At the same time, companies should be aware of additional regulatory, reputational, and litigation risks arising from any claims about AI programs that do not match the current capabilities of these technologies. Companies should expect that commercial litigation risk will continue as the use of AI matures.

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Clio

MARCH 6, 2024

The details here will vary depending on the stage of litigation. For example, has a lawsuit been filed yet, or is the litigation proceeding and discovery underway? Final thoughts on personal injury demand letters The personal injury demand letter is a pivotal step in litigation and should not be taken lightly.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

In re: StubHub Refund Litigation , No. July 31, 2023) This is a lawsuit over Blue Kai’s alleged keystroke logging on ESPN.com. Definitely don’t try to replicate Disney’s narrow escape if you can avoid it! .” This legal standard ensures lots of meritless litigation. 22-15879 (9th Cir.

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The Law Product Makers blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since the value-added service of an employment law practice is defending the company from employee complaints and lawsuits, a legal forms service, which reduces the employer’s risk of employee litigation, would be viewed by employers as a valuable service. My analysis is not definitive.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

So there will definitely be a politics underlying ChatGPT responses, and that’s going to be the kind of politics of computer users, mostly men, mostly kind of libertarian-ish types, and so on. .” And so they definitely have a front end approach to that, as in filtering out requests that are obnoxious.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 24, 2023

For drafting litigation content Initial prompt: “You are preparing discovery interrogatories in a personal injury lawsuit that involved an interstate highway collision of multiple vehicles including cars and tractor-trailers. Additionally, it could use segments of content from another source without permission.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

And we have been sampling certain types of use cases, particularly around the search for relevance in litigation, and discovery. And we talk about we showed them the cause of action definition sweat out and see, would you notice that in practice, and go, Oh, my god, yeah, cool. But it was sort of same.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

VCDPA follows the CCPA and GDPR in applying a broad definition of personal data, sweeping well beyond the traditional U.S. It does not include data that has been de-identified or data that is publicly available Persons acting in either a commercial or employment context are excluded from the VCDPA’s definition of “consumer.”

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The company provides AI-powered tools to help litigators automate repetitive tasks and work more efficiently. Suh provides background on founding LegalMation about seven years ago to help streamline the “scut work” litigation associates spend time on. Let’s jump into this week’s episode with a couple of great guests from LegalMation.

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Legally Speaking

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

He also successfully founded Betterfly and Summon Litigation Ventures and sold them. Josh spent 2 years as Managing Partner at Summon Litigation Ventures, and is now the proud Founder and CEO of Mighty. And at the time litigation finance as a term didn’t exist, but the practice very much exists.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2023

And we have been sampling certain types of use cases, particularly around the search for relevance in litigation, and discovery. And we talk about we showed them the cause of action definition sweat out and see, would you notice that in practice, and go, Oh, my god, yeah, cool. But it was sort of same.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This week we have Damien Riehl , VP, Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content at FastCase, and one of the drivers behind SALI (Standards Advancement for for the Legal Industry.) Damien is definitely a “big thinker” when it comes to the benefits of creating and using standards for the legal industry. And then I litigate the patent.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 14, 2024

It is an all-out brawl in federal court, with no-expense-spared battles over each and every picayune litigation issue. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts. Their claims were always overreaching and never meritorious in my mind.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Warby Parker, part of 1-8oo Contacts’ irrepressible efforts to revive the litigation genre. I hope this ruling will be persuasive to other courts so that we can finally and permanently put this chapter to rest after 2+ decades of pointless litigation. the dollar value of the clicks at issue is well below the costs of litigation).

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Florida legislature (bless their hearts) amended the statute in 2023 (after Lindsey’s rental) to broaden the definition of a livery. 9, 2024) The post Boat Rental Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Offline Boating Accident–In re Chaves appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. LEXIS 23688 (S.D.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The company provides AI-powered tools to help litigators automate repetitive tasks and work more efficiently. Suh provides background on founding LegalMation about seven years ago to help streamline the “scut work” litigation associates spend time on. Let’s jump into this week’s episode with a couple of great guests from LegalMation.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 8, 2024

The court says there can’t be MULTIPLE instances of INITIAL interest confusion: By definition, initial interest confusion is “confusion that creates initial customer interest.” Adler v McNeil * Court Denies Injunction in Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit–Nursing CE Central v. However, that issue has already been sent to the jury.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 22, 2023

If my blog qualifies as an eligible DJP, the definition of DJPs is surely over-inclusive. Does the definition only include CPM-based revenue? In other words, any editorial decision that is adverse to any DJP creates a non-trivial risk of a lawsuit alleging that the decision was retaliatory.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 6, 2024

This is a class-action employment lawsuit. But apparently these lawyers pushed their reality distortion too far for this judge. * * * This is a rare example of a judge using an emoji to express part of the opinion’s narrative, rather than referring to emojis contained in the litigants’ evidence.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 29, 2023

This is another lawsuit involving the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs. (Q: In this lawsuit, BAYC sued an “appropriation artist,” Ripps, who sought to comment on anti-Semitic aspects of the BAYC NFTs. Q: why are the apes so bored? A: because they spend so much time in court proceedings).

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

The entire purpose of the discovery rule is to allow a plaintiff to recover damages that occurred more than three years before the date the lawsuit was filed. 507(b), precludes retrospective relief for acts that occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit.” Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v. 4th 1236 (9th Cir.

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