Abbigail Rajala posted a critical review of her dating experience with Nikko D’Ambrosio on the Chicago subboard of Facebook’s Spill the Tea group. According to the district court, D’Ambrosio “sued anyone remotely associated with those posts for all possible, imaginable claims,…
This is a run-of-the-mill photographer copyright enforcement action. As a commission for an advertiser, Vedros created a photo that depicts “a dog placing its front paws on a scale with a cat nearby, and shows both animals looking at the…
The named plaintiff is a professor. The defendant is a website, Academia, that helps professors share their works publicly. Academia heavily promotes its “Mentions” service that tracks a professor’s mentions and citations. [Historically, I have used a variety of free…
Two more account termination/content removal cases fail, like dozens before them. Tate v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 2026 WL 1146745 (N.D. Cal. April 28, 2026) This case involves the manosphere enthusiasts the Tate bros, Andrew and Tristian. Instagram terminated six of…
[This is a ruling from a month ago…I just learned about it.] The court starts out: “Plaintiff’s pursuit of a preliminary injunction in this “Schedule A” patent infringement suit fizzled out after plaintiff abandoned its appeal of my order denying…
By guest blogger Sarah Fackrell, Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law Plaintiffs are often allowed to choose their own forum. But they’re not supposed to be able to choose their own judge. And yet, in the U.S. District…
Prior blog post. This 11th Circuit decision involves the following screen: In a split opinion, a majority says this TOS formation failed: Zeus chose to bury the page containing that agreement behind a hyperlink that itself was written in small,…
This is a rare Seventh Circuit opinion on the SAD Scheme (it’s nonprecedential). The defense didn’t contest the appeal, but even without opposition, the rightsowner still whiffs. The court contextualizes the case: Intellectual property lawsuits like this one have flooded…
The defendant offers a browser extension that displays popup windows over e-commerce sites showing price comparison information. Enterpreneurs have been trying to make this sort of functionality happen since the late 1990s. Maybe this browser extension will succeed where thousands…
This case involves two videos: a video of basketball legend Michael Jordan breaking up a fight, and a video interview with rapper Melle Mel. Videographer Delray Richardson owned the copyrights to both videos. Townsquare operates XXL, an online hip-hop news…