By Eric Goldman Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc., 562 F.3d 123 (2d Cir. April 3, 2009) The Second Circuit has issued its long-anticipated opinion in Rescuecom v. Google over Google’s sale of trademarked keywords as ad triggers. In a disappointing…

by Ethan Ackerman The US Supreme Court has declined to grant a petition for certiorari filed by Virginia’s Attorney General in Virginia v. Jaynes. That denial means the Virginia state Supreme Court’s holding is the final say in the Jaynes…

By Eric Goldman CLRB Hanson Industries v. Google, 5:05-cv-03649-JW (settlement papers filed March 26, 2009). The new case filings: * The settlement motion * The settlement agreement * The proposed court order granting the settlement My previous blog coverage of…

By Eric Goldman People v. Gourlay, 2009 WL 529216 (Mich. App. Ct. March 3, 2009) Hot on the heels of the Cook County Sheriff’s publicity stunt filing against Craigslist, we get an interesting but complicated ruling exploring the application of…

By Eric Goldman Ezzo v. Google, 2:09-CV-00159 (M.D. Fla. complaint filed March 17, 2009). The Justia page. I’m suffering ennui about blogging pro se lawsuits against companies like Google. Most of them are completely unmeritorious and poorly expressed, so they…

By Eric Goldman Joyner v. Lazzareschi, 2009 WL 695539 (Cal. App. Ct. March 18, 2009) Joyner is a Southern California soccer coach who merged two girls soccer teams into one, a decision that sparked a near-riot in the local girls…

By Eric Goldman Raggi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept., 2009 WL 653000 (D. Nev. March 10, 2009) Unexpectedly, we’re celebrating union week at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Earlier this week, I blogged that union organizers aren’t liable…

By Eric Goldman Last week, I gave a talk at a meeting of the IEEE Communications Society, Santa Clara Valley chapter. I don’t often get the chance to speak to a group of engineers, so I decided to go in…

By Eric Goldman [feel free to redistribute this post widely] Call for Papers on the Topic of “Law and Wikis” 2010 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 6-10, 2010 The AALS Section on Law and Computers invites you to submit…

By Eric Goldman Silver v. Lavandeira, 2009 WL 513031 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 26, 2009). The CMLP page. I’ve lost track of Perez Hilton’s multitudinous lawsuits, but in this case he gets a nice win. Silver is a rival blogger at “Perezrevenge.com.”…

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