Meta Pixels Case Dismissed by Second Circuit–Solomon v. Triller
This ruling combines three common blog topics: (1) the VPPA 🙄, which always gets an eyeroll emoji because so many VPPA cases are obviously meritless, (2) the Meta Pixel cases,…
More Account Termination Cases Fail in Court
The account termination lawsuits keep coming, so I’ll keep blogging them. Housman v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 2025 WL 1249157 (D. Nev. April 29, 2025) This is a pro se/in pro…
WeChat Defeats Account Termination Lawsuit–Sun v. WeChat
…Liable for Account Termination–Young v. Facebook Online Game Network Isn’t Company Town–Estavillo v. Sony Third Circuit Says Google Isn’t State Actor–Jayne v. Google Founders Ask.com Not Liable for Search Results…
Rounding Up Some Recent Copyright Decisions
…and their agents issued infringement complaints on dozens of such listings. In response to these complaints, however, the evidence shows that Defendants promptly took down nearly all of the infringing…
Facebook Defeats Armslist’s Account Termination Lawsuit–Armslist v. Facebook
In 2020, Facebook and Instagram terminated various Armslist-related accounts, and Facebook prevented users from sending the URL armslist.com in private messages. Armslist claims these actions were in response to government…
Amazon Isn’t Liable for Marketplace Items That Make False Claims–Planet Green v. Amazon
…Section 230–ICS Provider. “We easily conclude that Amazon is an “interactive computer service” provider, a term that we interpret “expansively,” because Planet Green alleges that Amazon operates websites, including Amazon.com,…
Ethan Ackerman Reflects on the Blogiversary (Part 7 of 10)
…who had access to PCs during college, and many of them still relied on school computer labs for access to a computer/printer. Law schools might have a website page for…
Court Overturns a Bad Jury Verdict Against Scraping–Ryanair v Booking (Guest Blog Post)
…in their home countries. But this court says, not so. The court’s reasoning was that because the definition of “protected computer” includes computers located outside of the United States, that…
The Ninth Circuit Has a Lot to Say About Online Contract Formation (Much of It Confusing)–Chabolla v. ClassPass
…what the user manifests by enrolling is ambiguous at best. In fact, the website advertises “[n]o commitments.” It is ironic that ClassPass now argues Chabolla unambiguously manifested her commitment to…
Big YouTube Channel Gets TRO Against Being Targeted by DMCA Copyright Takedown Notices–Invisible Narratives v. Next Level Apps
…I don’t plan to watch any shows with either the words “Skibidi” or “Toilet” in their titles. 👴 The image accompanying this post comes from the series–if it’s disturbing to…