A Judge Enumerates a SAD Scheme Plaintiff's Multiple Abuses, But Still Won't Award Sanctions--Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather v. Schedule A Defendants

A Judge Enumerates a SAD Scheme Plaintiff’s Multiple Abuses, But Still Won’t Award Sanctions–Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather v. Schedule A Defendants

This is a SAD Scheme case. The plaintiff, Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather, owns U.S. Patent No. 11,478,673 for an outdoor exercise product (“a rectangular-shaped buckle-and-belt mechanism, embodied in a Hanging Exercise Product that is sold online”). The plaintiff sued 163…

SAD Scheme Cases Are Always Troubling--Betty's Best v. Schedule A Defendants ๐Ÿ˜ 

SAD Scheme Cases Are Always Troubling–Betty’s Best v. Schedule A Defendants ๐Ÿ˜ 

Every SAD Scheme lawsuit is problematic, though the specific reasons may differ. Each lawsuit creates dozens or hundreds of individual dramas, few of which receive any public scrutiny, and usually comes at the cost of due process and the rule…

Judge Pushes Back on SAD Scheme Sealing Requests

Judge Pushes Back on SAD Scheme Sealing Requests

A signature feature of SAD Scheme cases is that rightsowners typically try to seal defendants’ identities. The sealing helps rightsowners in several ways, including preserving their ability to proceed without defendant involvement, springing account and cash freezes on defendants to…

Roblox Sanctioned for SAD Scheme Abuse--Roblox v. Schedule A Defendants

Roblox Sanctioned for SAD Scheme Abuse–Roblox v. Schedule A Defendants

TIL: Roblox regularly uses the SAD Scheme. I found at least 19 cases. In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. If that’s true with the other 18 cases, Roblox may have sued 4,000+ defendants using the…

Q&A About Emoji Law

Q&A About Emoji Law

I did another interview on emoji law that I thought was worth sharing here. * * * 1. Please tell me about your childhood and young adulthood. Did you play games (ie, Atari, Nintendo) that required you to “read” icons…

Schedule A (SAD Scheme) Plaintiff Sanctioned for "Fraud on the Court"--Xped v. Respect the Look

Schedule A (SAD Scheme) Plaintiff Sanctioned for “Fraud on the Court”–Xped v. Respect the Look

This is one of the thousands of “Schedule A” cases, a phenomenon I’ve labeled the “SAD Scheme.” (Technically, the defendants in this case are enumerated on “Exhibit 1” instead of “Schedule A,” but same thing). The court describes the phenomenon:…

More Chaos in the Law of Online Contract Formation

More Chaos in the Law of Online Contract Formation

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. You’ll notice that this post gets increasingly surly as the cumulative effect of the judicial inanity weighed on me. Two top-line takeaways you might get from this…

A Single Emoji Could Constitute Securities Fraud--In re Bed Bath & Beyond

A Single Emoji Could Constitute Securities Fraud–In re Bed Bath & Beyond

This case involves Ryan Cohen, who made a fortune running Chewy.com and then switched his interests to meme stocks. He bought a 9% interest in the failing retailer Bed Bath and Beyond, hyped the stock, and then liquidated his position,…

Amazon Screws Up Its TOS Amendments (Again)–Jackson v. Amazon

This case involves “Amazon Flex” drivers. Allegedly, “Amazon monitored and wiretapped the driversโ€™ conversations when they communicated during off hours in closed Facebook groups.” Amazon claimed its TOS mandated arbitration. The Ninth Circuit disagrees. At issue are two versions of…

What Does the "Water" Emoji Mean? Perhaps Not What You Think--US v Swanagan

What Does the “Water” Emoji Mean? Perhaps Not What You Think–US v Swanagan

[Just a reminder that there are no “off-limits” topics in Internet Law. So yes, this post is going to go there.] Law enforcement took down a methamphetamine ring in Kentucky. Based in part on Facebook messages between two defendants that…