Brett Trout

JULY 25, 2025

Because of that, and the fact that summary judgment on likelihood of confusion grounds is generally disfavored, the court remanded the case back to the lower court, ordering a full hearing of the facts before a legal determination could be made on the issue of likelihood of confusion. Copyright Law (0)

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

Social media Several lawsuits claim social media companies, such as Meta, Google, and ByteDance, enabled teen addiction to the platforms and caused numerous mental health issues. Attorneys are expected to rely on law that has worked to protect people from toxic environmental substances.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 25, 2025

Startup IYO, spun out of Google’s moonshot X lab, just won a major victory in its lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Ive’s design studio LoveFrom. The lawsuit alleges this wasn’t just a coincidence. A federal judge stepping in to put the brakes on OpenAI and its new venture with famed Apple designer Jony Ive. On Friday, U.S.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

” Remember this perspective when the Ninth Circuit analyzes the various censorial state laws designed to control or strip away “platforms'” curatorial or discovery efforts. Third, the court is correct that a blog post without any promotion can be the tree that falls in the forest that no one hears.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants are important contributors to a law firm’s success and are integral to its day-to-day operations. Because of their effective organizational skills and knowledge of law, they affect the dynamics of the ever-dynamic legal world. Clients’ communication and handling of the clients and their needs.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Will they get the message? * * * Background Lerner and Rowe is an Arizona law firm. Brown Engstrand is a start-up rival law firm (operating under the brand “Accident Law Group”). Here’s an example: Competitive keyword advertising by law firms has been a source of trouble for years.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While true that many defendants default in Schedule A cases, there are times when multiple defendants appear, seek different relief, require multiple hearings on varying motions, have different dates, and so on. Schedule A Defendants appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Emoji GmbH v.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 13, 2025

Environmental law in the U.S. In 2025, a political wave of deregulation stands to change how environmental law functions. History of environmental law in the U.S. History of environmental law in the U.S. Some commentators put the roots of environmental law in the U.S. Heres a snapshot of how some U.S.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

MARCH 21, 2025

9] Hearing the case on appeal, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of anti-monopolistic requirements, ordering the divestment of these major studios from their cinemas to ensure more widespread competition. [10] 6] Simone Swersky, Terminations of the Paramount Decrees: A Greenlight for Monopolies , Columbia Undergraduate Law Review (Jan.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. The panel summarizes: “Because Does state law claims necessarily implicate Grindrs role as a publisher of third-party content, 230 bars those claims. Salesforce * Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over Users CappingMH v. Case Citation : Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

My ranking of the top 10 Internet Law developments of 2024. There are supposed to be conflicts-of-interest laws that prevent this, but America has become a post-conflicts kleptocracy). 9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. 10) X/Twitter Embraces Partisan Bias.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

Based on this ruling, Viral DRM’s earlier SAD Scheme lawsuit also may have been deficient on copyright standing grounds. However, a court would almost never independently spot the standing problem at an ex parte TRO hearing. However, it highlights another problem with SAD Scheme cases. Emoji GmbH v.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As a result, this dispute implicates some provocative Internet Law questions. 22, 2024) Because of the high-profile nature of this lawsuit, I received several reporter inquiries about the case. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This is a kind of 4D chess move. Case Citation : Zuckerman v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

Online addiction lawsuits are proliferating across the country, a trend that will continue so long as plaintiffs think they can win. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen. However, Justice Barrett’s concurrence isn’t the law, so it’s a slender reed to base the conclusion on.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2025

This is a confusing lawsuit that has been through several names, including “Sarah v. Salesforce * Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over User’s “Capping”–MH v. WebGroup Czech Republic * Instagram Defeats Lawsuit Claiming It Was a “Breeding Ground” for Sex Traffickers–Doe v. [Note: my blogging hiatus is due to a trip to China.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 19, 2025

But this type of remedy isn’t ordered ex parte and before there is even any evidence that the defendant has sought to move assets; and to grant such relief, there usually has to be discovery and a hearing, so that the asset freeze is narrowly tailored to the amount needed to satisfy a disgorgement award.” appointees.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JULY 15, 2025

Laws involving students and schools address issues such as access to education for special needs children, discrimination based on certain protected characteristics, liability for injuries to students, school attendance requirements, and parental objections to vaccinations. Here are some common questions to which it provides general answers.

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lennyesq

MARCH 31, 2025

Peters The writers are the senior partners at the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters. President Trump this month issued an executive order clearly intended to destroy the venerable law firm Perkins Coie, a firm that has zealously represented clients large and small for more than a century. At a hearing the next day, Judge Beryl A.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Senate Commerce Committee expressly modified FOSTA to add the higher scienter after its emotionally-wrenching SESTA hearing (one of my least favorite professional moments of my career). For those who sat through or reviewed the hearing, there is no doubt what the Senate Commerce Committee was trying to do–i.e.,

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 26, 2024

This is another lawsuit against Grindr claiming that Grindr made it too easy for underage users to sign up and meet other users for sex. Grindr Online Dating App Grindr Isn’t Liable For Underage ‘Threesome’ The post Section 230 Defeats Underage User’s Lawsuit Against Grindr–Doll v. A commendation to Judge Jerry D.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2025

[Note: lawsuits over takedown notice attacks occur occasionally. ” In response, Focus claimed “that the law in this Circuit is that a grey market good is a counterfeit good, and that since GM’s Sigma lenses were grey market goods, it was substantially true to report them as counterfeit.” ” Um, no.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 5, 2024

Also, everyone magically became experts in reading body language and facial expressions. […] The post Supreme Court To Nick Sandmann: ‘Lol, No’ To Hearing His Omnibus Defamation Lawsuit Against News Orgs appeared first on Above the Law.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 4, 2023

As exciting as generative AI can be, it raises certain questions involving copyright law. Already, lawsuits involving AI-generated works have been filed in federal courts from coast to coast. This free database provides public records of lawsuits in federal trial and appellate courts. A pending lawsuit in the U.S.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster, and on January 24th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing to investigate the case. In 2010, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. When I first blogged this case in January 2021, I wrote: This lawsuit, like many others before it, claims that UGC services like YouTube commit illegal discrimination based on how they moderate content. Google appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 24, 2023

The lawsuit claims the BPOs were TikTok’s proxies. The court also allows an exception to the general rule due to the supply of unsafe equipment, i.e., the faulty sorting software for reviewer queues. * * * Similar lawsuits by content moderators have failed, including Garrett-Alfred v. Facebook and Aguilo v. Cognizant.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster, and on January 24th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing to investigate the case. In 2010, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 11, 2024

The court doesn’t take the bait: The court rejects the argument that “merely hosting infringing content, until it is subject to a takedown notice, constitutes “materially contributing” to infringement under current law.” If the publishers find any smoking guns, we’ll hear more about them. 2024 WL 945325 (M.D.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

My takeaways: I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs’ position. The justices frequently crossed over to discuss the ATA prima facie case, the subject of tomorrow’s hearing in Taamneh v. Two that jump out at me: How often will plaintiffs bring lawsuits if 230 is lifted?

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Indeed, they are already filing lawsuits despite the pending Supreme Court appeal hanging over the law. The plaintiffs may have to sue in California if the law survives Constitutional scrutiny. But surprise!

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In my previous post , I summarized: This lawsuit involves troubling allegations that Facebook executives ( allegedly , Nick Clegg, Nicola Mendelsohn, and Cristian Perrella) took bribes from OnlyFans-related entities to spike Facebook and Instagram posts that promoted competitors of OnlyFans. The plaintiffs’ allegations were sizzling.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 8, 2024

[These are my rough-draft talk notes from a recent workshop of trademark law professors.] As another example of the significance of non-appellate law, Google’s trademark policy is the de facto trademark law of online keyword advertising. Second, the SAD Scheme is swallowing up the rest of trademark law.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 22, 2025

The court doesn’t want to hear it: None of these arguments supports a VPPA claim post-Solomon. Google (Catch Up Post) Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law? NFL appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

” “Plaintiff’s timing in filing and dismissing its lawsuit suggests an improper purpose… Plaintiff’s delay in filing the TRO undercuts its supposed urgency, suggesting instead that Plaintiff timed its filing to sideline its competitors during a busy sales season. Schedule A Defendants , 1:23-cv-02605-JLR (S.D.N.Y.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

The Ninth Circuit rejected that defense , in the process creating a new and totally unhelpful common law exception to Section 230 for “anti-competitive animus.” The lawsuit’s lengthy duration and high defense cost has significant substantive implications. Initially, Malwarebytes defended on Section 230(c)(2)(B).

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

[Isabel] 01:40 Join us as we sit down with today’s expert guest, Berkeley Law Professor Chris Hoofnagle, to discuss ChatGPT. We’ll explore the potential impacts of ChatGPT not only on everyday life, but also on the legal industry, education, intellectual property law, geopolitics, and more. And there’s a process.

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Have you ever found yourself curious about the legal stuff you hear about? The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. This blog highlights the key differences between civil and criminal litigation according to the law.

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