A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a putative class action against Allbirds Inc. into arbitration, ruling that a click-through checkout agreement gave the shoemaker reasonably conspicuous notice of its mandatory arbitration...
Vickers v. Allbirds, Inc.
A discovery order from Judge Barbara Moses criticizes the tech giant’s “aggressive redaction campaign” and refuses to blanket-seal employee names docket.
Cengage Learning, Inc. et al v. Google LLC
A federal judge in San Francisco certified a nationwide class of investors in a securities fraud case against Alphabet Inc. and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, allowing the case to proceed to trial on allegations that Google’s advertising...
AMI - Government Employees Provident Fund Management Company Ltd. v. Alphabet Inc. et al
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a pro se musician failed to plausibly allege that YouTube users had a reasonable chance of seeing his original composition before uploading allegedly infringing tracks, dismissing the case with...
Shlapatskyi v. YouTube, LLC et al
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that PHH Mortgage’s privacy policies did not provide blanket consent for the secret sharing of users’ individualized financial data with third-party trackers, allowing key privacy and wiretap claims...
Allison v. PHH Mortgage
A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco limited the scope of document requests in a privacy lawsuit against Google, ruling that plaintiffs’ demands for broad system documentation were not proportional to the needs of the case.
Doe I et al v. Google LLC
Senior Judge Paul G. Castel denied Gannett and Daily Mail’s request to keep their economic and technical expert reports entirely under seal, ruling that the presumption of public access outweighs the parties’ claims of inefficiency in...
1:21-md-03010 In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation
A federal judge in Arizona ordered GoDaddy to transfer two disputed domain names to BTQ Technologies and enjoined former employee Nicolas Roussy Newton from using the company's trade secrets, extending a temporary restraining order...
BTQ Technologies Corporation et al v. Newton et al
A federal judge in Chicago transferred a patent infringement lawsuit against Google to the Northern District of California, ruling that the West Coast forum offered clearer access to witnesses and physical evidence.
McLellan v. Google LLC
A magistrate judge found that a defendant forged his wife's and son's signatures on discovery verifications and fed his own lawyers false information for two years — but declined to end the case on the first swing.
Ricci v. Scott et al
The high court heard arguments Monday in a case that could reshape how law enforcement uses location data from tech giants to track suspects.
Justices appear mixed on whether geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment
A Delaware federal judge wiped out the last surviving claim of a reactive targeted advertising patent after finding it covered nothing more than the age-old practice of tailoring a pitch to a particular customer.
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Google LLC
A federal judge awarded Moonbug Entertainment $279,962.75 in post-judgment collection fees against BabyBus, while denying all appellate fees, after finding that BabyBus engaged in extraordinary evasion to avoid paying a $25.6 million...
Moonbug Entertainment Limited et al v. Babybus (Fujian) Network Technology Co., Ltd
A federal judge in Jacksonville kept a Lanham Act suit against Google in the Middle District of Florida, rejecting the company's bid to move the case to its home turf in the Northern District of California.
P2B Trading Co. Inc. v. Google, LLC
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in Chatrie v. United States, a case that challenges the constitutionality of law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants to obtain digital location data from technology companies.
Court to hear argument on law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrants”
A Northern District of Illinois judge denied Nourish, Inc.'s motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging the company surreptitiously tracked users' sensitive health information and transmitted it to Google.
Podraza et al v. Nourish, Inc.
VirtaMove, Corp. and Google LLC have stipulated to consolidate two related patent infringement lawsuits into a single civil action, streamlining discovery and trial proceedings for overlapping claims involving the same patent family.
A federal judge in Tacoma ruled that a psychiatrist's trademark infringement suit against a rival TMS clinic must go to trial on the core disputed issues, while holding as a matter of law that the "Olympia TMS" mark is descriptive rather...
David Penner MD PLLC et al v. Clear TMS+ PLLC
A federal judge in Delaware granted Google summary judgment on patent-eligibility grounds, holding that the sole remaining claim in B.E. Technology's infringement suit is directed to an abstract idea and contains no inventive concept...
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Google LLC
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater used a keynote address at the Fordham Competition Law Institute to argue that antitrust enforcement, rather than broad regulation, is the best tool for fostering competition in artificial...
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater Delivers Keynote at Fordham Competition Law Institute’s 52nd Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater announced a new internal task force dedicated to combating Hart-Scott-Rodino Act violations and privilege log gamesmanship, signaling a shift in enforcement priorities for Big Law compliance.
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater Delivers Remarks to the Ohio State University Law School