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.”…
By Eric Goldman The Scranton Times, LP v. Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co., 3:08-cv-02135-ARC (M.D. Pa. March 6, 2009) Oh man, how bad is it in the newspaper business? Rather than investing in building new and sustainable business models and relationships with…
By Eric Goldman Cintas Corp. v. Unite Here, 2009 WL 604099 (S.D.N.Y. March 9, 2009). The Unite Here press release. Cintas, a Fortune 500 company, manufactures uniforms. The defendants are unions and affiliated folks interested in unionizing Cintas’ workforce. This…
By Eric Goldman After barely passing the Utah House, Utah HB 450–Utah’s third ill-fated attempt to regulate keyword advertising–died quietly last night when the Utah Senate failed to act on it before the Utah Legislature adjourned for the year. My…
By Eric Goldman In re: Yahoo! Inc; Overture Services, Inc., No. 09-10098 (5th Cir. March 11, 2009) In January, the Texas district court denied Yahoo’s request to transfer the American Airlines keyword advertising lawsuit out of Texas and into Yahoo’s…