03.29.18
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently turned to the Indiana Supreme Court for guidance on the issue of publicity rights in a case involving online fantasy sports games.
A class action seeking damages for a 2012 data breach at Zappos.com that impacted 24 million customers will move forward after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a dismissal of certain plaintiffs for lack of standing.
Already the target of state and federal regulators, cryptocurrency is now being phased out of online advertising and social media.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a class action challenging the size of Starbucks iced drinks, and agreed with a district court judge that no reasonable consumer would believe an iced drink didn’t contain ice.
03.22.18
Sprint should put some limits on its “unlimited” claims, the National Advertising Division (NAD) recommended in a new decision.
Nike won a challenge to its “Jumpman” logo when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court dismissal of a copyright infringement suit brought by a photographer.
Google grants just under half the requests seeking to remove Internet links, according to the latest report from the company.
The old adage “good things come to those to wait” showed itself to be true when on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released its hotly anticipated decision in ACA Int’l v. FCC, just shy of 17 months after oral argument.
03.15.18
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a deal with PayPal, Inc., settling charges that the company violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act by misleading consumers about the extent to which they could control the privacy of their Venmo transactions.
In a decision making headlines, a New York federal court judge held that a tweet embedded in news stories may constitute copyright infringement.
