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Judge Reconsiders SAD Scheme Ruling Against Online Marketplaces–Squishmallows v. Alibaba

Eric Goldman

You may have heard about Squishmallow’s recent lawsuit against Build-a-Bear over plushy knockoffs. I previously blogged about one such case, where Squishmallow sued 90 e-commerce merchants in a sealed complaint and got a TRO. The judge subsequently held the marketplaces in contempt for violating the injunction.

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A Tale as Old as Time: Disney and DeSantis Battle in the Courts

Trellis.Law Blog

DeSantis’s Motion Against Judge Walker Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion to recuse the Hon.

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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

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. The plaintiff eventually dismissed all of the defendants within 5 weeks of filing the complaint. See ECF No.

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A Tale as Old as Time: Disney and DeSantis Battle in the Courts

Legal Tech Monitor

DeSantis’s Motion Against Judge Walker Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion to recuse the Hon. Walker, a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, from presiding over Disney’s lawsuit.

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A South Carolina Legal Technology Case is Likely Headed to the Supreme Court – Why You Should Care

Law Technology Today

To address the housing crisis in South Carolina, the NAACP’s Housing Navigator Program sought to scrape online housing court records, so it could uncover tenants with eviction actions filed against them and further assist them with fighting those eviction actions. District Court Judge Henry E. In Courthouse News Service v.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. Which is probably a big part of the reason that many judges have been eager to distance themselves from it. Zeidenberg , 86 F.3d 3d 1447, 1454-55 (7th Cir.

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Combining these two holdings, it concluded: “we must apply the discovery rule to determine when a copyright infringement claim accrues, but a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed to determine the extent of the relief available.” By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, the U.S. Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v.

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