Morgan Lane, Unsplash With the FTC Ban on non-competes essentially dead in the Courts of Appeal, various states and agencies have taken up the mantle to further limit or expand the use of restrictive covenants for certain populations in 2025. Below is a list of major legislative changes, judicial decisions, and agency actions at the…
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This case involves diamond prices. The plaintiff Rapaport publishes a weekly subscription-only price list of diamonds based on various attributes. This publication serves as an industry benchmark. The defendant Nivoda is an online retailer[FN] that displays how its prices are discounted compared to the Rapaport prices (see screenshot). In theory, someone could collect the Rapaport…
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Key Takeaways In a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit in Briskin, the court ruled that e-commerce platform Shopify purposefully directed its conduct toward California because of its nationwide operations, rejecting the need for differential targeting of a forum state. Notably, the court found a direct causal nexus between Shopify’s conduct and Briskin’s claims, deeming…
Originally posted 2012-12-21 06:00:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted March 30, 2012. The Second Circuit, just yesterday (March 29, 2012) has issued an opinion called Louis Vuitton v. Ly USA, Inc. (08-4483-cv(L)) sure to bring joy to the hearts of trademark counterfeiting enforcers everywhere. This was one of those major counterfeiting-ring busts, and…
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a sophisticated cybercrime that targets businesses and individuals performing legitimate transfer-of-funds requests. Attackers employ tactics such as email spoofing, phishing, and social engineering to impersonate trusted entities—like executives, vendors, or legal representatives—to deceive victims into transferring money or sensitive information. Common BEC Techniques Email Spoofing: Crafting emails that appear to…
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Medistry, the .med registry with a really strange business model, is looking to normalize its practices and start competing with the cluster of healthcare-related gTLDs already on the market. The gTLD launched in 2016 and had almost 42,000 domains under management at the last count, which may sound like a pretty decent showing for a…
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Plaintiff sued TikTok and Meta after other users on those platforms incorporated clips from her video into their own posts, allegedly without her permission. She claimed this was copyright infringement and also alleged that TikTok failed to protect her from harassment by users in the comments of her live videos. Plaintiff filed the lawsuit on…
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This is a Meta pixels case agains the G6 hotel chain (a/k/a Motel 6). G6 sought to arbitrate the case per its TOS. G6 presented the court with a screenshot of Motel 6’s standard account creation process: G6 added the red box for the court. This screenshot looks like a standard sign-in-wrap with a good…
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Originally posted 2009-03-19 15:28:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter “Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on the keyword,†Google lawyer Alexandra Neri told a 15-judge panel of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg today. “The decision to click or not to click belongs…
