Doe v. Twitter and its Place in the War on Porn
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – “In 2021, we’ll be fighting harder than ever to ensure the online pornography industry is taken down once and for all!” So says the National Center ...
Tag: civil litigation
Defendants Move to Dismiss ‘Enby’ Trademark Lawsuit
PORTLAND, Ore. – In the summer of 2019, Boyajian Products LLC, better known by the brand name “Wild Flower Sex,” began marketing the “Enby” pleasure product. As the name of ...
Malibu Must Pay Defendants’ Legal Fees; Total Still TBD
In a decision that offers instruction on how judges evaluate the award of attorneys’ fees in civil litigation, U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin of the Northern District of Illinois ...
WOW Tech Group Sues Lora DiCarlo, LDC Denies Infringement
In a lawsuit filed on the last day of 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Novoluto GmbH, a German company that operates as part of ...
Careful with Those Claims: Facts Aren’t Subject to Copyright
Hey kids: Let’s play a game called “Copyright Litigation Hypothetical that’s Not Entirely Hypothetical” – a fun little exercise that might someday prevent you from filing a doomed lawsuit and ...
Using Trademarked Terms in Meta Tags, Hashtags is Risky Business
SAN FRANCISCO – In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California last week, the operators of several online dating sites allege that a ...
Third Circuit Issues Complex, Mixed Decision in 2257 Case
In what the Free Speech Coalition has aptly termed a “complicated” decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in the long running case Free ...
9th Circuit Says Court Lacks Jurisdiction in AMA Copyright Case
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – In an unusual 2-1 ruling which featured opinions written by all three judges – along with a separate concurrence with the majority opinion authored by a ...
9th Circuit Upholds Lower Court Rulings in Kink/Insurer Cases
SAN FRANCISO – In an unpublished opinion issued Thursday, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld two lower court rulings in two ...
Court’s Ruling Suggests Fight Against A.B. 5 Could Face Uphill Battle
SAN FRANCISCO – In an order issued Monday with potential implications for the effort to challenge California's Assembly Bill 5 (“A.B. 5”), California Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman granted ...
