Clio

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Whether youre a law student attempting to master case briefing, or a lawyer seeking to re-learn this skill to advocate more effectively, this blog post provides a useful cheat sheet to make tackling case briefs more efficient. For law students, this will be the main takeaway of the case, as intended by your professor.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 24, 2025

Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, did not break the law by training its models on copyrighted books—at least not when it comes to how the books were used. copyright law. The judge went on to rule that fair use does not extend to making copies of non-purchased copyrighted work.

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

This is where law firm predictive analytics come to the rescue. By leveraging AI and other technologies, law firms can uncover patterns and trends across vast datasetsturning raw information into actionable insight. What is predictive analytics for law firms?

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Toyota brought a SAD Scheme case against 103 defendants before Judge Daniel in the Northern District of Illinois. As I recently mentioned , Judge Daniel is calling out overreaching joinder allegations in SAD Scheme cases. Judge Daniel responds unambiguously: “None of these arguments are persuasive.” Do better).

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lennyesq

MAY 2, 2025

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS A lawyer who wanted his pleadings to stand out has been ordered to remove a large purple dragon watermark from each page of a lawsuit that he filed in federal court. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan ordered lawyer Jacob A. Nor can the firm include the logo on other new filings.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. 6] Despite these challenges, plaintiffs are not slowing down, and new lawsuits were filed at a steady clip over the course of 2024.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In my last post , I discussed how evolving technology will continue to influence our relationships and thus, impact family law. We have all heard about the lawsuit involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. This is often the case in family law matters. Even public figures are not immune to the potential impact of text messages.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 10, 2025

Because patent law isnt just about filling out forms and submitting diagrams. They know how judges interpret vague language, how opposing counsel attacks claim construction, and how the slightest ambiguity can make or break a case. In fact,no two patent attorneys would draft the same patent for the same invention.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This is the instant-classic lawsuit involving a Saskatchewan farmer who text-messaged a “thumbs-up” emoji in response to an offer to buy his flax. The lower court judge should feel good about his work. Nevertheless, the lower court judge wrote a strong and thoughtful opinion that held up on appeal. Prior blog post.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2025

Last year, the Ninth Circuit said that plaintiffs could get around Section 230 in their lawsuit against the app maker YOLO because the app maker said it would ban users for inappropriate statements and would unmask harassers. So where exactly is the Ninth Circuit’s law on this topic? I don’t know. Case Citation : Bride v.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This is a copyright SAD Scheme case before Judge Harjani , appointed to the Northern District of Illinois ealirer this year. In this ruling, Judge Harjani questions joinder on his own initiative. In this ruling, Judge Harjani questions joinder on his own initiative. Judge Pushes Back on Copyright SAD Scheme Cases–Viral DRM v.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 25, 2025

A federal judge stepping in to put the brakes on OpenAI and its new venture with famed Apple designer Jony Ive. 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.

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MatterSuite

JULY 22, 2025

When to Issue a Legal Hold The legal matter duty begins when litigation becomes “reasonably foreseeable,” not necessarily when a complaint or lawsuit is filed. A single overlooked employee might hold critical emails or texts that change the course of a lawsuit. Missteps often stem from preventable gaps. Custodians get missed.

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Brett Trout

JULY 9, 2025

The problem is that you may not find out about those critical defects until you try to enforce the trademark registration against an infringer and end up with a judge invalidating your entire trademark registration. In one case I recently posted about, a judge stopped OpenAI from using the IO trademark on its new AI product.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Gone are the days when judges were unaware that AI is simply a tool that one may apply to many generic problems. Implications for Patent Filings This decision underscores the importance of claim drafting in patents covering new applications of artificial intelligence.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective operation of the services’ reporting tools, but the plaintiffs’ goal was to hold the services accountable for their alleged inaction in response to some reports. Such allegations fail to state a claim under products liability law. removal of the reported videos.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderZaful v. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderXie v. Annex A Will Judges Become More Skeptical of Joinder in SAD Scheme Cases?Dongguan Judge Pushes Back on Copyright SAD Scheme CasesViral DRM v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 28, 2025

Time for a stroll down Internet Law’s memory lane… Cases about including a trademark in post-domain URLs date back to the 1990s. In other words, for decades, everyone believed that any URL component to the right of the top-level domain was irrelevant to trademark law. The flagship precedent in this area is PatmontMotors v.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

It can also help with legal research, finding relevant case laws or statutes quickly without endless hours of manual searching. Its a lifesaver for law firms or teams dealing with tons of paperwork. AI-Powered Legal Research Tools AI legal research tools take the hassle out of finding case law, statutes, and precedents.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

But I’m pretty sure getting 8-75 likes at Instagram, especially for posts that might be considered thirst traps, isn’t impressive, and I think the court is silently judging that. Lil Nas X appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Hill , 2025 WL 1417103 (9th Cir.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 7, 2025

”] This lawsuits raises one of the venerable but surprisingly vexing copyright law questions: when is a price copyrightable? ” And yet…the copyright law jurisprudence is littered with cases saying or implying that individual prices could be copyrightable (e.g., This lawsuit was filed in early January.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. While this court might ordinarily suspect that such an assertion was made in jest, there is nothing funny about the dozens of lawsuits which plaintiff has filed against numerous entities which, as the Fifth Circuit noted in Eagle Mountain, were mostly public schools or nonprofits.

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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. Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderZaful v. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderXie v. 2025 WL 660250 (N.D.

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lennyesq

MAY 17, 2025

Orpett , James Pearce By settling with Trump, law firms have much more than a moral stain to worry about. They come in the context of the Trump administrations many attacks against lawyers, courts, andperhaps most unexpectedlysome prominent law firms. On the opposing side, many have lamentedor raged atthe firms decisions.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ rights to post reviews on Yelp).

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Lawsuit Argues Defendants Violated the Privacy Act by Disclosing Sensitive Data NEW YORKEFF and a coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to stop the U.S. Read more…

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lennyesq

MAY 2, 2025

District Judge Beryl Howell, who called the executive order an attack on the American judicial system, said Trumps directive violates the Constitution and is thus null and void. Reilly U.S. judicial system. judicial system.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Calling all cyberlaw nerds: here is a bona fide “ Law of the Horse ” case. The plaintiff is an Oregon law firm practicing equine law. Copyrightability The case sets up one of the longstanding open questions in copyright law: when are form contracts copyrightable, and when is sharing them infringing?

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Whether copyrighted works can be freely used to train generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) models is at the core of dozens of lawsuits filed since AI burst onto the scene several years ago. Just one day later, on June 25, 2025, Judge Chhabria handed down a decision in Meta , which cited Anthropic.

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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. Will a Ninth Circuit panel agree?

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 21, 2025

Ohio enacted a segregate-and-suppress law that requires regulated websites to obtain parental consent before minors can access certain site features. In early 2024, the court granted a preliminary injunction against the law going into effect. Strict Scrutiny Unsurprisingly, the law fails strict scrutiny.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Still, it’s a troubling ruling as a standalone microcosm of how judges’ attitudes towards censorship and free speech are flexible. This is a serious means-fit problem for the law. As President, Trump could order the DOJ to not enforce the law. The risks come from both foreign and domestic actors.

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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. FOLLOW ME THERE! In Bride v.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2025

Many existing online age authentication mandate laws in the US remain overreaching post-FSC v. Paxton Court Permanently Enjoins Ohio’s Segregate-and-Suppress/Parental Consent Law–NetChoice v. Bonta Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v. Paxton Comments on the Free Speech Coalition v.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 15, 2025

This is a segregate-and-suppress law : the law requires some social media platforms to age-authenticate all users and prevent minors from opening accounts without parental consent. The court preliminarily enjoined the law in 2023. Nevertheless, the definitions of social media platform undermine the laws efficacy.

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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

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