Monthly Archives: November 2011

FACTS OF THE CASE Chanel has brought suite against hundreds of Internet domain name owners, accusing them of using the website domains that they own to traffic in counterfeit goods. A district court judge in Nevada has ruled that Chanel can legally … Continue reading →

By Tim & Anita We may be lucky to live in California, where the reach of non-compete agreements is fairly limited. The case of Edwards v. Anderson (2008) held that non-competition agreements are void in California with few exceptions. Furthermore, non-compete agreements … Continue reading →

by Jacob Portnoff and Adriane Urband NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS PEOPLE v WEAVER Decided on May 12, 2009 In People v. Weaver, a state police investigator placed a sophisticated GPS tracking device on the defendant’s van. The GPS was … Continue reading →

by Andrew Chao & Gilbert Hernandez Background In the class action lawsuit Doe v. Cisco Systems, the Human Rights Law Foundation, representing a group of Falun Gong practitioners, are accusing Cisco of aiding human rights violations through the distribution and … Continue reading →

by Vimal Kini & Jennifer Wang On Wednesday, November 17 an entertainment industry-backed measure to “kill the Internet” comes up for review in the House of Representatives in the form of the Stop Online Piracy Act. The act claims to … Continue reading →

An interesting news article came up discussing how the Department of Justice is scheduled to deliver a statement to Congress tomorrow telling them that they would like to make it a prosecutable offense to violate a site’s Terms of Services … Continue reading →

In February 2011 a group of big Hollywood studios sued Hotfile, a data storage website, for copyright infringement. The way Hotfile works is that users upload data and control access to it, so the user can share links for downloading … Continue reading →

Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act (“CDA”) provides substantial immunity from liability for providers and users of “interactive computer services.” However, the depth of immunity provided by the CDA has not been without controversy. Some recent and controversial decisions … Continue reading →

By: Meena Natarajan and Gregory Shapiro Rosenberg v. Google Case Lauren Rosenberg, the Plaintiff, used Google maps application on her Blackberry to get walking directions in Salt Lake County. Google maps suggested walking directions through a rural highway that required her … Continue reading →