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Connectu v. Facebook (and vice versa)
ConnectU is suing Facebook in Massachusetts for copyright infringement, breach of actual or implied contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, unfair business practices, intentional interference with prospective business advantage, breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing, fraud and breach of confidence. Facebook is suing ConnectU in California for business torts and unfair business practices. Read More
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| Adaptix, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. et al | April 19, 2013 | May 17, 2013 |
| Adaptix, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. et al | April 19, 2013 | May 17, 2013 |
| Epstein et al v. Apple, Inc. et al | March 25, 2013 | May 17, 2013 |
| Hilton v. Apple Inc | May 10, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Institute For Information Industry v. Google Inc. | May 10, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Viacom International, Inc. v. Youtube, Inc. | May 3, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| William Lacy v. Braeburn Capital, et al | May 7, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Ivankina v. Facebook, Inc. et al | May 8, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| Mitel Networks Corporation et al v. Facebook Inc. | May 7, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| Public.Resource.org v. Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association, Inc. | February 22, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| Adaptix, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. et al | May 2, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| Parts.Com, LLC v. Google Inc. | May 6, 2013 | May 6, 2013 |
| Brilliant Optical Solutions LLC v. Google, Inc. | April 10, 2013 | May 6, 2013 |
| CpuMate Inc et al v Apple Inc | April 11, 2013 | May 3, 2013 |
| A.K. v. Google, Inc. | April 9, 2013 | May 2, 2013 |
| Case Name | Case Filed | Last Update |
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| Hilton v. Apple Inc | May 10, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Institute For Information Industry v. Google Inc. | May 10, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Ivankina v. Facebook, Inc. et al | May 8, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| Mitel Networks Corporation et al v. Facebook Inc. | May 7, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| William Lacy v. Braeburn Capital, et al | May 7, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Parts.Com, LLC v. Google Inc. | May 6, 2013 | May 6, 2013 |
| National Cheng Kung University v. Apple Inc. | May 3, 2013 | May 3, 2013 |
| Viacom International, Inc. v. Youtube, Inc. | May 3, 2013 | May 10, 2013 |
| Adaptix, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. et al | May 2, 2013 | May 8, 2013 |
| GOLDIN AUCTIONS, LLC v. BRYANT | May 2, 2013 | May 2, 2013 |
| Plaintiff Goldin Auctions seeks a declaratory judgment that it has the legal right to sell at auction sports memorabilia of Kobe Bryant which was consigned to it by Pamela Bryant, Kobe Bryant's mother. | ||
| Jones et al v. Zuckerberg et al | April 30, 2013 | April 30, 2013 |
| Fread et al v. Google, Inc. | April 29, 2013 | April 29, 2013 |
| Freeny et al v Apple Inc | April 29, 2013 | April 30, 2013 |
| Adaptix, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. et al | April 19, 2013 | May 17, 2013 |
| Adaptix, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. et al | April 19, 2013 | May 17, 2013 |
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| Authors Guild, Inc. v. Hathitrust | November 14, 2012 | December 7, 2012 |
| Cambridge University Press, et al v. J. Albert, et al | October 5, 2012 | November 2, 2012 |
| Is it Fair Use to make digital copies for e-reserves at a university, using the four factor analysis on an item by item basis? If so, how should the analysis be made? | ||
| Marino Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Inc. v. Issa et al | June 1, 2012 | July 2, 2012 |
 A continuing legal education company headed by Joseph Marino (inset, left), the legendary force behind a 65-year-old family-owned New York and New Jersey bar exam course, sued a former employee for alleged theft of “invaluable data” from his more recent CLE company’s business.… | ||
| ROLLING THUNDER MOTORCYCLE RALLY, WASHINGTON, D.C., INC. v. DOES et al | May 4, 2012 | June 1, 2012 |
 The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally, an annual motorcycle ride sponsored by veterans to honor their missing and fallen colleagues files a preemptive copyright infringement lawsuit in advance of the group's Memorial Day ride in Washington, D.C. to stop and enjoin alleged copyright infringers from selling unlicensed and counterfeit goods during the event.
Photo credit: Pak Gwei via Flickr | ||
| TufAmerica, Inc. v. Diamond et al | May 3, 2012 | May 15, 2012 |
| CBS Television Distribution v. Comstar Media LLC et al | April 16, 2012 | April 26, 2012 |
| Disney Enterprises Inc v. Michael Jones et al | April 26, 2012 | April 26, 2012 |
| Toma v. Motley Crue, Inc. et al | April 16, 2012 | April 17, 2012 |
| Paramount Pictures Corporation v. Puzo | February 17, 2012 | March 14, 2012 |
| Lawson et al v. Universal Studios LLC | February 22, 2012 | February 29, 2012 |
| Capitol Records, LLC v. Redigi Inc. | January 6, 2012 | February 6, 2012 |
| Is it legal to resell used mp3 files? | ||
| Nate Hoffman v. O Three Meida LLC et al | January 4, 2012 | January 5, 2012 |
| Fifty-Six Hope Road Music Limited, a Bahamian corp. v. Booker et al | December 1, 2011 | December 22, 2011 |
| UMG Recording, Inc. v. Escape Media Group, Inc. et al | November 18, 2011 | December 16, 2011 |
| Record label UMG Recording, Inc. sues Gooveshark, and a number of the company's executives, for copyright infringement, accusing the defendants of uploading roughly 100,000 recordings to the online music service, without payment or licensing use of the artists' works. | ||
| Braddock v. Jolie et al | December 2, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
| Case Name | Case Filed | Last Update |
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| Rimowa GmbH v. Marvel Entertainment LLC et al | August 1, 2012 | August 27, 2012 |
| Adidas America, Inc et al v. Seven Wells, LLC | May 15, 2012 | June 22, 2012 |
| RC3, INC. v. Bieber | February 24, 2012 | March 1, 2012 |
| Aurelio's Is Pizza Franchise, Ltd v. PFC of Illinois, Inc. et al | October 20, 2011 | January 9, 2012 |
| A 52-year-old family pizza business filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against a franchisee, alleging that defendant illegally sells "frozen counterfeit pizzas at wholesale for sports teams to re-sell as fundraisers." | ||
| True Religion Apparel, Inc. et al. v. Xiaokang Lee et al. | November 15, 2011 | December 22, 2011 |
| Hester v. Neverson et al | November 15, 2011 | December 12, 2011 |
| Television personality David Hester of A&E's 'Storage Wars' reality TV show, filed a trademark lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that his "Yuuup!" moniker does not infringe upon rapper Trey Songz's purported intellectual property claims to variations of the phrase. | ||
| Adidas America, Inc et al v. Preschoolians Company et al | December 5, 2011 | December 8, 2011 |
| In-N-Out Burgers v. Pappas Restaurants, Inc, | November 15, 2011 | December 8, 2011 |
| Holiday Public Relations & Events, LLC et al v. The Edgartown Library Foundation, Inc. et al | December 2, 2011 | December 5, 2011 |
| adidas AG et al v. Wu et al | November 14, 2011 | December 1, 2011 |
| Cavern City Tours Ltd v. Hard Rock Cafe International (USA), Inc. | November 27, 2011 | November 29, 2011 |
| Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. et al v. Yang Quan Lu | November 9, 2011 | November 29, 2011 |
| Basis International Ltd. v. Research in Motion Ltd. et al | October 24, 2011 | November 23, 2011 |
| BRAVADO INTERNATIONAL GROUP MERCHANDISING SERVICES, INC. et al v. JOHN DOES 1-100 et al | October 31, 2011 | November 14, 2011 |
| Boyd v. MizzFit LLC | October 4, 2011 | November 2, 2011 |
| Case Name | Case Filed | Last Update |
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| Parallel Iron LLC v. Google Inc | March 6, 2013 | March 21, 2013 |
| The Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. | August 14, 2012 | September 17, 2012 |
| The Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. | June 14, 2012 | July 11, 2012 |
| Suffolk Technologies, LLC v. AOL Inc. et al | June 7, 2012 | June 25, 2012 |
| Google and AOL face a patent infringement by Suffolk Technologies, LLC over Internet companies' search result ‘snippets' and ad-serving technologies. Learn more... | ||
| Franchise Dynamics LLC v. Google Inc | April 19, 2012 | May 2, 2012 |
| Oldenburg v. Google Inc | March 19, 2012 | March 26, 2012 |
| United States of America v. The Google email accounts deogydog@gmail.com and cbonislawski@gmail.com | March 16, 2012 | March 16, 2012 |
| Rischar v. Google, Inc. et al | February 20, 2012 | March 15, 2012 |
| ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION | February 8, 2012 | March 5, 2012 |
| Benjamin Joffe, et al v. Google Inc. | October 17, 2011 | November 21, 2011 |
| Doctor John Doe et al v. Google Inc | November 3, 2011 | November 7, 2011 |
| The Authors Guild, Inc. et al v. Hathitrust et al | September 12, 2011 | October 6, 2011 |
| Pessano et al v. Google, Inc. | August 24, 2011 | September 21, 2011 |
| Benjamin Joffe, et al v. Google Inc. | July 29, 2011 | August 16, 2011 |
| Isys Technologies v. Google et al | June 6, 2011 | July 5, 2011 |
| A Utah company sued Google for trademark infringement, claiming that the search giant's Chromium OS infringes its trademark rights to Isys Technologies' Chromium Modular Computer. | ||
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ABA Journal Daily News
| Do LinkedIn endorsements violate legal ethics? | May 21, 2013 |
Legal blogger Robert Ambrogi received an email alert this morning notifying him that an Internet acquaintance he’s never met or spoken to had endorsed his litigation skills on LinkedIn. Ambrogi says that is not uncommon for connections with no firsthand knowledge of his skills to endorse him on LinkedIn, a…... more |
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| Never mind employees on Facebook—look out for the work videos they post on Vine | May 21, 2013 |
While some businesses still have problems with employee Facebook policies, along comes Vine, a video-sharing app introduced by Twitter. It allows users to post 6-second-long videos from their smartphones, and a growing amount of content comes from workers on the job, employment lawyer Daniel A. Schwartz tells the…... more |
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| Thinking of switching law firms? Be sure you take these steps, partners caution | May 21, 2013 |
More lawyers are at risk for bad career jumps as lateral movement is expected to continue its upward trend, two BigLaw partners say. Activity among Am Law 200 firms reached a 3-year high in 2012, according to the American Lawyer. “The worst of all worlds is for an attorney to…... more |
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| Scalia asks telecom trade group: Why the name change to ‘unpronounceable’ acronym? | May 21, 2013 |
Orphan acronyms, particularly unpronounceable ones, may be the future, but they don’t appear to sit well with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the Blog of the Legal Times reports. In a case published Monday, a footnote of the majority opinion authored by Scalia…... more |
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| Using Airbnb to rent apartments for short-term stays violates law, says NY judge | May 21, 2013 |
A New York man who rented his apartment for a three-day stay ran afoul of the city’s hotel law, an administrative law judge ruled Monday. Hearings for a similar law are pending in San Francisco, CNET News reports. Both matters involve the website Airbnb,…... more |
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| Report: Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag | |
Prosecutions under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act against individuals, businesses or government entities dropped by 52 percent in 2012, compared to 2011, according to TRACE, a Maryland-based nonprofit that focuses on anti-bribery compliance. However, enforcement actions are surging this year, said Julie Coleman, TRACE's senior director of advisory services. "Originally, it was off to a slow start, but there are a lot of things percolating." ... more |
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| Judge Orders Parties to Hire Neutral Expert to Probe Facebook | |
Granting limited discovery in a social media dispute, a Pennsylvania judge has ordered the parties in a personal injury case to hire a "neutral forensic computer expert" to review the plaintiff's private Facebook page during a 17-day window in which the defendants claim the woman alleging injuries was photographed playing in the snow. ... more |
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| Conservative Group Sues IRS Over Tax-Exempt Status | |
A Texas-based conservative group called True the Vote filed suit today against the IRS in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint for declaratory action against the agency echoes revelations last week that the IRS used political criteria to target conservative groups for extra scrutiny on applications from tax-exempt organizations. ... more |
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| Bartlit Beck Loses Bid to Nix Alexsam Patent on Appeal | |
A divided Federal Circuit has affirmed a jury verdict upholding the validity of a patent owned by licensing company Alexsam that covers systems used to process prepaid phone and gift cards. But it reversed the Marshall, Texas, jury's finding that IDT Corp., had infringed the patent for one system, and affirmed the district court's ruling that there was no infringement on another. ... more |
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| In Leak Case, DOJ Considered Reporter 'Co-Conspirator' | |
With the U.S. Department of Justice under fire for secretly obtaining Associated Press phone records, a newly unsealed court document has revealed that federal prosecutors seized far more than phone records in one pending leak case. A DOJ investigation into leaks about classified information about North Korea also looked at a reporter's security badge access records and his personal emails. ... more |
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LegalTimes.com - Legal News Online from the Nation's Capital
| Interim Law Dean Gets the Permanent Job in South Dakota | May 21, 2013 |
The University of South Dakota School of Law has named Thomas Geu as its new dean. He has taught there since 1989 and has served as interim dean since former dean Barry Vickrey stepped down in 2011 after 18 years at the helm. ... more |
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| Latham Fights Disqualification In Freight Rail Class Action | May 20, 2013 |
Latham & Watkins is fighting an attempt to disqualify the firm as lead trial counsel for Union Pacific Railroad, a defendant in multidistrict litigation over freight rail fuel surcharges. ... more |
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| Report: Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag | May 20, 2013 |
Foreign bribery and corruption prosecutions declined during 2012, even as 15 new countries were cracking down on such crimes involving their own government officials, according to a survey by Trace International Inc. ... more |
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| Eight-Year Sentence Affirmed for Bulger's Girlfriend | May 20, 2013 |
A federal appeals court has upheld the eight-year prison sentence for accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's girlfriend for harboring a fugitive, including an enhancement for her failure to disclose that she owned a house and controlled a substantial bank account. ... more |
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| Suspension for Spurned Attorney Who Waged Vendetta | May 20, 2013 |
An Indiana attorney has been suspended from practice for three years for pursuing a romantic relationship with a summer law clerk and attempting to destroy her legal career when she rejected his advances. ... more |
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Jurist Legal News & Research
| New Bolivia law allows president to run for third term | May 21, 2013 |
[JURIST] Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera signed into law Tuesday a constitutional amendment that will allow President Evo Morales [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to run for a third term. The Bolivian Constitution [text, in Spanish] only allows a president to serve two terms. However, last month the Bolivian Constitutional Tribunal ruled [JURIST report] that the two consecutive term limit should not be applied retroactively, and because the country's constitution was amended... more |
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| Guatemala court voids ex-dictator Rios Montt's genocide conviction | May 21, 2013 |
[JURIST] The Guatemala Constitutional Court [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday overturned the genocide conviction of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt [JURIST news archive] and ordered the trial to resume from the point that it was stopped on April 19. Earlier this month Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide, torture and rape of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. The ex-dictator was sentenced [JURIST report] by a three-judge panel headed by Judge Jasmine Barrios to 80... more |
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| UN urges Afghanistan to approve women's rights legislation | May 21, 2013 |
[JURIST] The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and UN Women [official websites] on Monday urged [press release] Afghanistan's government to fully respect and defend the fundamental rights of women and girls by ensuring the implementation of and respect for women's rights legislation. This call comes in response to the Afghanistan parliament, which blocked legislation [JURIST report] on Saturday that would have protected provisions of the 2009 Law on Elimination of Violence Against... more |
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| Supreme Court declines to hear Alaskan village's greenhouse gas claim | May 21, 2013 |
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] declined [order list, PDF] Monday to review an Alaskan village's claims that greenhouse gas producers should be held accountable to the village for pollution that threatens its vitality. Kivalina, a village of Inupiat Eskimo natives, filed suit [complaint PDF] against 22 corporations in 2009 for damages caused by greenhouse gases that reduced sea ice, increasing flooding, and sought damages so that it could relocate to a safer area. By refusing to... more |
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| Vermont governor signs physician-assisted suicide bill | May 21, 2013 |
[JURIST] Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed legislation [text, PDF; bill summary, PDF] Monday that legalizes physician-assisted suicide in the state. This bill makes Vermont the fourth state in the US to approve the practice. The Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act (aka "Death with Dignity" bill), was passed [JURIST report] by the legislature earlier this month. Under the new law, mentally competent patients who have been diagnosed with six months to live will be permitted to... more |
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