Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The panel summarizes: “Because Does state law claims necessarily implicate Grindrs role as a publisher of third-party content, 230 bars those claims. Doe fails to state a plausible TVPRA claim, so Doe cannot invoke a statutory exception to 230 immunity.” The district court dismissed the case.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2025

Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B. 230’s Immunity The post YouTube Again Defeats FOSTA Lawsuit–In re YouTube Trafficking Litigation appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. G6 * FOSTA Claim Can Proceed Against Twitter–Doe v. Twitter * FOSTA Survives Constitutional Challenge–US v.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

Unbeknownst to most, however, is that 167 law enforcement agencies across Virginia are now using public-facing surveillance technology such as Automatic License Plate Readers (“ALPR”) and gunshot listening devices. [1] 11] Law enforcement uses ALPR primarily for two reasons. You speed through a traffic light near Washington, D.C.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2025

In those circusmtances, copyright law is an especially attractive tool to the pugilists, with its strict liability standards, amorphous fair use boundaries, high defense costs, and effectiveness of takedown notices. 14, 2024) A magistrate judge recommends sending a 512(f) case to trial. Kilgore , 2024 WL 5295080 (W.D.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 1, 2025

The court breezily rejects each of his state law claims, including the Florida social media censorship claim that relied on an unconstitutional law that’s enjoined. Selected Posts About State Action Claims WeChat Defeats Account Termination LawsuitSun v. Facebook YouTube Still Isnt a State ActorAlbertson v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 16, 2024

” A reminder that Section 230 cases often require the judges to apply the immunity to tragic facts. Yet, its wording was cumbersome enough that plaintiffs have nevertheless sought to overturn that modification–and have gotten some district court judges to agree along the way. raise the scienter bar.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2025

So long as the Internet is still generating Internet Law, and so long as I have the legal and technical ability to comment on new Internet Law developments, I’ll be blogging about it. The erosion of the rule of law has prompted me to question everything about the scope of my blogging. Will I Still Have the Fighting Spirit?

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel. ” Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The International Law Center at Justia explains this membership process and describes each of the major organs in the UN, such as the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Secretariat. The Court consists of 15 judges, who are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 17, 2024

by guest blogger Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law A Web Scraper Beats a Platform: The Same Story, but Different It seems like we’ve been here before, and not that long ago. It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external.

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LLRX

AUGUST 27, 2024

David Colarusso founded and co-directs the Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. LLRX is pleased to share what Colarusso states is not a traditional syllabus, because this class he is teaching is not a traditional class. By training he is an attorney and science educator.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In my Internet Law course, I still teach the Pharmatrak case from 2003, where an analytics service provider used a pixel and other tracking technology. ” We might expect the judge to push on these vague and conclusory allegations and demand specifics. Using a pixel to track users is an Old School practice.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This case got assigned to Judge Alsup’s courtroom. I previously summarized Judge Alsup’s modus operandi about motions to dismiss: Judge Alsup gives the benefit of the doubt to plaintiffs on motions to dismiss, only to hammer them on summary judgment if their evidence doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

16, 2024, in a bid to overturn a law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned in the U.S. During the appearance before a panel of judges at the U.S. TikTok headed to court on Sept.

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lennyesq

AUGUST 28, 2023

By JEFF COLTIN The New York City Council passed, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law, a bill banning the sale and serving of foie gras in November 2019. It was set to take effect three years later, in November 2022, but the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets ordered the city to foie greddaboudit.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v.

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Legal Expert Connections

DECEMBER 1, 2018

District Judge forced a law firm to reveal its referral fee arrangement in a recent prominent case, many legal experts are suggesting the industry may be at a tipping point where class action firms could be required to more fully disclose the distribution of their fees. After one U.S. Upon this discovery, a U.S.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 4, 2024

Utah passed a terrible law claiming to be “for the kids,” which are increasingly prevalent at the state level. NetChoice challenged the law in court primarily based on the First Amendment, but NetChoice also claimed that Section 230 preempts the latter three functions. Case Citation : NetChoice LLC v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

moved to dismiss the third count of the complaint brought by the plaintiff, Brendan Baker, who accused CVS of violating a state law known as the “Lie Detector Statute.” Attorneys with Seyfarth Shaw, on behalf of CVS Health Corp.,

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2024

Some screenshots depicting the framing (the first image shows Google’s superimposed frame on the right; the second shows what happens if users click on the frame in the first image): If this issue sounds familiar, it’s because framing generated huge discussion in Internet Law circles… 20+ years ago.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 12, 2016

Then there are the judges who work in a good Star Wars reference in an opinion. Judge Richard Jones must have felt he was dealing with a phantom menace of discovery disputes, because most of the issues in the case could have been solved if the parties actually had a meaningful a meet and confer. This case has both. Cedar Grove, at *5.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And what’s a company to do right now, with facial recognition opportunities presenting themselves today while the law remains a moving target? In this Part 1, we lay out the current laws governing facial recognition in the United States. The Patchwork of Current Facial Recognition Privacy Laws A.

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The Barrister

MARCH 18, 2024

7] Microsoft stock image The NCAA halted its investigations into third parties creating NIL deals with collegiate Division I athletes after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia. Law Library More than 10,000 of the 1,390 FBS players have agreed. [7]

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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. Employment law, for example, where an employee suffers discrimination.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Justia provides a Probate Law Center that can guide executors, heirs, and anyone else involved in the process. A person who could serve as an administrator also may nominate another person for this role, although the judge will make the final decision. Justia provides a 50-state survey on requirements for wills.)

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Federal laws and regulations provide specific protections to people with disabilities. This is why Justia recently added the Justia Disability Law Center to our Justia Legal Guides for consumers. State laws may provide additional protections to people with disabilities in both employment and housing.)

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Eric Goldman

MAY 13, 2024

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina , which is owned by LexisNexis, has added a module for litigation involving claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as claims under related state laws. .

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2023

The plaintiffs claim that, “by enabling the transmission of ephemeral content on the application, Defendants facilitate the exchange of CSAM, and that Snap’s design of the application assists users in ‘evad[ing] supervision by legal guardians or law enforcement.'” the application of Section 230 to the failure-to-warn claims.

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Martindale-Avvo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. ” This appearance before a judge is usually to set bail while the filing of the criminal case is underway.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2023

However, FOSTA was not designed as an anti-CSAM law, so the plaintiffs’ claims don’t really fit the legal doctrine. Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Both parties appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 5, 2023

Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B. 230’s Immunity The post The Ninth Circuit’s FOSTA Jurisprudence Is Getting Clearer (and More Defense-Favorable) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. G6 * FOSTA Claim Can Proceed Against Twitter–Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 26, 2024

Here, if the law recognized the illegality of “possessing” illegal content, then the upload could create its own legally recognizable harm even if it’s never meant for, or made available for, downloading. Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B. The Lemmon v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2024

The court says the claim fails on its prima facie elements because “Plaintiffs have failed to establish that Salesforce had constructive knowledge that Backpage violated relevant sex-trafficking laws as to Plaintiff.” Omegle * To No One’s Surprise, FOSTA Is Confounding Judges–J.B. Google LLC , 2024 WL 1892291 (N.D.

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LawSites

JUNE 2, 2022

Designed to help lawyers improve the drafts of their briefs and legal documents, BriefCatch is a Microsoft Word add-in that offers some 11,000 style and editing suggestions, together with explanations and illustrations drawn from the exemplary writing of actual lawyers and judges. One thing about software is that it is politically neutral.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 23, 2023

In response to a facial constitutional challenge to FOSTA, the DC Circuit upheld the law after making several narrowing constructions. The remaining ambiguity over its scope chills and inhibits socially beneficial and completely legal behavior, but the law doesn’t help reduce illegal behavior.

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