On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
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Swarthmore Coalition For the Digital Commons…
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The Washington Post quotes Jennifer Granick and mentions the McDanel case in an article about new sentencing guidelines that are destined to create harsher pena…
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society…
In U.S.A. v. Thomas Michael Whitehead, Case No. 2:03CR53 (C.D.C.A. Sept. 19, 2003), the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California alleged that Whiteh…
Hyperphrase Technologies sued Microsoft for patent infringement of three of Hyperphrase’s patents relating to storage and retreival of information in computer s…
Geoffrey Davidian publishes The Putnam Pit, a tabloid and website that monitors corruption in Cookeville, Tennessee. Davidian lives in California but developed…
The District Court of Massachusetts denied plaintiff's motion for class certification in a copyright infringement suit by three freelance photographers agai…
On September 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a proposed consent order settling complaints with AOL and its subsidiary, CompuServe. The FTC had…
The plaintiff, a New York resident, brought claims under the Lanham Act, Clean Air Act, Kansas state unfair trade law, and common law negligence against several…
Michael Zurakov filed a lawsuit based on Register.com’s practice of initially pointing newly registered domain names to a “Coming Soon” Page, which informs Inte…