Facebook Post and Blog Entry About Judicial Endorsement Held to be Defamatory — Lewis v. Rapp

May 22, 2012 · by

…violation of the seventh canon of the NC Code of Judicial conduct[,] [w]e are clearly into dirty politics. In response to this post, Lewis’s lawyer emailed Rapp and advised that…

Comments on the Ninth Circuit’s En Banc Ruling in U.S. v. Nosal

May 3, 2012 · by

…business’s high frequency trading system. Prior to leaving Goldman, he transferred a chunk of the source code that he had developed while at Goldman. The Second Circuit sets aside his…

Text Spam Class Action Against Jiffy Lube Moves Forward – In re Jiffy Lube Int’l, Inc., Text Spam Litigation

March 17, 2012 · by

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Jan.-Feb. 2012 Quick Links, Part 2 (Trademarks, Patents, Trade Secrets, Innovation Edition)

March 8, 2012 · by

…Connect, Inc. v. Code Rebel LLC, No. 2:11-cv-05764-RSWL-MAN (C.D. Cal. Feb. 15, 2012). User downloaded trial software and agreed to a EULA restricting reverse engineering. The user reversed engineered anyway….

Facebook and Zynga Privacy Litigation Dismissed With Prejudice [Catch up Post]

March 7, 2012 · by

[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] In re Facebook Privacy Litigation, 10-02389 (N.D. Cal.; Nov. 22, 2011) In re Zynga Privacy Litigation, 10-04680 (N.D. Cal.; Nov. 22, 2011) These decisions are several…

California Appeals Court Says Emails That Don’t Identify Sender Violate State Spam Statute – Balsam v. Trancos

February 29, 2012 · by

…court also rejects Balsam’s arguments on cross appeal. Violations of Cal. Code Sec. 17529.5(a)(2) Section (a)(2) makes it unlawful for anyone to advertise in an email sent from or to…

Facebook Gets Decisive Win Against Pseudo-Competitor Power Ventures — Facebook v. Power Ventures

February 21, 2012 · by

…Power Ventures came to a close last week, with Judge Ware granting Facebook’s motion for summary judgment on Facebook’s claims under CAN-SPAM, California Penal Code section 502, and the Computer…

Egregious/Overreaching Ex Parte Orders for Rightsowners Keep Coming — Deckers and Richemont

January 17, 2012 · by

…there is always a proper basis for it. There are a lot of cites to “the court’s inherent equitable power” in these orders. That’s judicial code for: “there is no…

Mass Ct: ZIP Code is Personal Identification Info Under Credit Card Statute But Plaintiff Must Still Allege Harm — Tyler v. Michaels Stores

January 10, 2012 · by

…not expect compensation for turning over their ZIP code, and plaintiff did not allege that, had she known all the facts, she would have “charged” Michaels for the ZIP code….

Facebook “Sponsored Stories” Publicity Rights Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss–Fraley v. Facebook

December 19, 2011 · by

…to burst the plaintiffs’ bubbles about a new exception to 230. The Statutory Publicity Rights Claim (CA Civil Code 3344) Facebook took a few cracks at the claim, all of…

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