Here is a summary of legal developments in five federal and state court cases last week that involved technology companies, or alleged activities by their users. Samsung Cries Foul, Claiming Jury Foreman in Apple iPhone $1B+ Lawsuit Was Biased In a motion filed last Tuesday, Samsung's lawyers asked U.S. District Court…
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Photographer Christopher Boffoli has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, claiming infringement of copyrighted photographs. The complaint alleges that "Twitter users copied numerous photographs from the Disparity Series without license or permission from Boffoli . . . . [and] were…
On July 19th, Rick Quereshi filed a Notice of Opposition against Twitter’s application for the mark TWEET. Although Twitter applied for trademark protection of TWEET back on April 16, 2009, and the application was published for opposition later that year, Quereshi opposes the registration for the following reasons: 1) Twitter…
Twitter libel ('twibel') cases are growing. Courtney Love just paid $430,000 to settle a twibel case filed by a fashion designer who accused the rocker of defaming her in a series of tweets with incredible accusations. A Welsh politician in the U.K. recently admitted to twibeling his city council opponent…
An NBA referee officiating the Minnesota Timberwolves January 24th 125-129 loss to the Houston Rockets has sued an AP reporter for defamation over a Tweet. Bill Spooner has officiated over 1,000 regular season games and over 50 play-off games. During the game, Spooner called a foul on Minnesota during the…
Comedians, satirists, and Fake Steve’s everywhere, take note: under California's new anti-Internet impersonation law, you want to make sure that you show your intent to tickle your reader's funny bones on the Web. That's because under California Penal Code Section 528.5, someone who "knowingly and without consent" uses the Internet to "credibly impersonate[] another…
2010 is almost gone--it's been a very eventful year here at Justia. Indulge us while we review this year's contributions to legal information on the internet. And, we are getting plans ready for 2011--if you have any ideas about things you'd like to see at Justia.com, please let us know…
If you're a regular reader of this blog or follow Justia on Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed that in October we really picked up the pace on the Justia Law, Technology & Legal Marketing Blog. In the past, we used the blog to make announcements, cheer on fellow…
It’s election day and all of us here at Justia hope you get out and vote! Given that we’ll have a new Congress at the beginning of the year, we’d like to point you to some iPhone apps you can download to keep informed on what’s going on in the…