Trellis.Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Last Friday, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court held that embryos are considered people under Alabama state law. As such, those who destroy embryos could be held liable for wrongful death.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Data privacy professionals are keeping an eye on the set of state laws primed to go into effect in 2024. While some laws are similar to their predecessors’, others are breaking from the mold.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Along those same lines, parties to a prenup should understand what rights they have to inherit property under relevant state law once they are a spouse and if their partner predeceases them. In addition to family law litigation, she also negotiates prenuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements on behalf of clients.

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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. First, it resolves disputes between nations by applying principles of international law. Law The Supremacy Clause of the U.S.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 28, 2022

Spotlight: Practical Law enables attorneys to get up to speed quickly and more efficiently translate research into quality work product. Practical Law enables us to respond to our clients quickly and effectively, delivering increased efficiency and value.” – Scott M. Coffey, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 4, 2023

” The court summarizes: “Google has immunity from her state law claims, as it cannot be held liable for search engine results showing a third party’s statement.” Pennsylvania State Law Enforcement, 2023 WL 3767745 (E.D. PA Law Enforcement appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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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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. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

APRIL 5, 2023

This is why some Americans resort to tax advisors, attorneys, or other professionals to help them meet their obligations under tax laws. Even people who can afford it may want to know the basics about how the law works before diving into the details, or deciding whether they want professional help.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In addition to educating the public and helping develop policies, the agency can bring legal actions against people or businesses that have allegedly violated consumer protection laws. The Consumer Protection Law Center at Justia provides more details about how the FTC helps protect consumers from deceptive and unfair business practices.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Is better case law data fueling a legal research boom? Recently, Rebecca Fordon noticed a surge of new and innovative legal research tools. Fordon wondered what could be fueling this increase, and set off to find out more.

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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. Common Law Trespass to Chattels Per Hamidi, common law trespass to chattels plaintiffs must show a measurable loss to computer system resources.

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Legal Talk Network

JULY 2, 2021

Yet, they continue to be incredibly important for the marketing of law schools, law firms, etc. On Thinking Like a Lawyer , Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams review Above the Law’s law school rankings. A tech spring cleaning for your law firm & Duck, Duck Gray Duck, explained. Rants ensue.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 13, 2024

Algorithmic audits are coming up in legislation and state laws. But experts believe that these laws cannot exist in a vacuum, and may need more collaborative, interjurisdictional approaches.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We’re happy to provide a Sports Law center in our Justia Legal Guides for fellow fans who may be interested in legal issues that can affect athletes. Some areas of law are not specific to professional athletes but could raise certain issues related to their occupation. It aims to make the law transparent and accessible to all.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Practical Guidance Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker alerts you to new federal and state laws regulating AI across practice areas. The post Stay Current On Artificial Intelligence Legislation In 2024 appeared first on Above the Law. Click the bell icon to receive notifications whenever changes occur.

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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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MARCH 13, 2024

(AP) — Students and teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Last Friday, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court held that embryos are considered people under Alabama state law. As such, those who destroy embryos could be held liable for wrongful death. The decision has concerned reproductive rights advocates.

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Inside Privacy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While the EU GDPR regulates the international transfer of personal data, several recently enacted EU laws regulate the international transfer of non-personal data, which is any data that is not “personal data” under the GDPR. Below, we have summarized the restrictions on international transfers in the laws in which they appear.

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APRIL 23, 2023

By Josephine Stratman New York’s efforts to curb the explosion of unlicensed weed shops have been largely ineffective due to a tangle of limited laws, agencies with overlapping responsibility and spotty enforcement, a Daily News investigation has found.

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Inside Privacy

JULY 10, 2023

In late June, the Oregon Legislature passed HB 2759 , which would amend the state’s existing “do not call” law. The bill currently is awaiting action by the governor.

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Legal Expert Connections

MARCH 19, 2020

Law firms across the country have been moving quickly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by establishing emergency response teams. A selected list of law firm with a coronavirus response team appears below. We have helped more than 175 law firms in 39 states create and launch business development campaigns.

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Technically Legal

MARCH 31, 2022

Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University and he has been a law professor for nearly 20 years. But… it was only because he was a firefighter that he ended up going to law school. Because of all of this, Bill decided to go to law school at the University of Chicago and became a legal professor.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Professor Alex McCourt , an expert on gun laws at Johns Hopkins University, explains how red flag laws are supposed to work – and why they weren’t triggered in this case.

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Inside Privacy

MARCH 31, 2023

On March 26, 2023, Virginia enacted a genetic privacy law ( SB 1087 ) aimed at regulating the practices of direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) genetic testing companies. Virginia’s SB 1087, effective July 1, 2023, adds to the growing net of state genetic privacy protections.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2023

Section 230 Ripoff Report claimed that removal was justified because Section 230 completely preempted the state law claims. Xcentric appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Cites to Zeran v. AOL (the district court opinion!) Xcentric Ventures LLC , 2023 WL 2316200 (S.D.

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Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 18, 2024

Even as the laws surrounding cannabis vary around the country, some states are going beyond this drug to explore changing regulations around psychedelic drugs. laws also less frequently mentioned MDMA, peyote/mescaline, ibogaine, LSD, and DMT/ayahuasca. There are some exceptions for certain drugs in federal law.

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Inside Privacy

MAY 3, 2023

He opined that Member States’ law may not stipulate conditions going beyond those set out in the GDPR that make it more difficult to impute GDPR infringements to companies. Member States laws may not require this to be a pre-condition to impose a GDPR administrative fine. (2) companies).

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Data Strategy and Security team at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has authored the 2022 edition of the Privacy Law Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2021), a user-friendly guide to the laws and regulations that govern how companies collect, use, store and transfer the personal information of their consumers and employees.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Kathy Hochul tweaked state law earlier this year to increase the potential fines for unlicensed cannabis sales and bolster enforcement against shops that flout the law. By Caroline Lewis Gov.

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Debevoise Data Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

On March 24, 2022, Utah enacted a comprehensive consumer privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”). The UCPA, effective on December 31, 2023, is largely consistent with other comprehensive state privacy laws, but includes several key differences. The UCPA has a narrower applicability than the State Privacy Laws.

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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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Wisblawg

JANUARY 16, 2024

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Unpacking State Legislative Vetoes Univ. 1791 by NATHAN ATKINSON , UW Law School Fines imposed for corporate misconduct may lead to insolvency. Legal Studies Research Paper No.

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Technically Legal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Brandon explains that most data privacy laws, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and U.S. Brandon explains that most data privacy laws, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU and U.S. They must get started somewhere in their data privacy policy journey.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 16, 2023

“Courts in the Ninth Circuit have regularly held that the DMCA preempts state law claims arising out of submission of takedown notices.” ” 512(f) once again wipes out state law claims, even if 512(f) doesn’t apply. Longarzo * DMCA’s Unhelpful 512(f) Preempts Helpful State Law Claims–Stevens v.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I Massachusetts’ anti-SLAPP law is old-school and narrow, so Nextdoor didn’t have the option to invoke anti-SLAPP protection. Nextdoor appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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