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Backpage.com is Challenged on Two Fronts in Supreme Court

The two cases that involve the online classifieds company Backpage.com feature very different legal questions. But they both carry potentially significant implications for internet content providers in particular and, more largely, for the digital economy.
11 minute read

Legaltech News

GC of Pokemon Go Creator Placates Senate Critic

Niantic GC Courtney Greene Power wrote a letter responding to U.S. Senator Al Franken, who had raised concerns the month prior about the digital privacy of the game's users.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Local TV, LLC v. Superior Court (Knutsson)

By | September 06, 2016
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Backpage.com Asks Supreme Court to Block U.S. Senate Subpoena

Backpage.com, the nation's second-largest online classified ad website, on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a congressional subpoena that demands business information about how the company polices third-party content. Lawyers for Backpage, represented by Davis Wright Tremaine and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, contend the U.S. Senate subpoena, if enforced, chills First Amendment rights.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Private Funding of the Lawsuit That Killed Gawker Spells Trouble

OPINION: If duplicated, billionaire's strategy could threaten an independent media.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Upholds Dismissal of Class Actions Against Time Warner

Time Warner has succeeded in beating back an antitrust allegation that it was illegally tying premium cable TV services to leases of interactive set-top call boxes.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Backpage.com CEO Must Respond to Senate Subpoena, D.C. Circuit Rules

The chief executive of the online classified website Backpage.com must respond to a congressional subpoena seeking information for a sex trafficking investigation, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled Friday.
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge Won't Dismiss Reporter's Suit Against Atlanta Police

A federal judge has denied the City of Atlanta's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by a reporter arrested as he was photographing the arrest of another person at a 2014 protest rally over the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Rich Clan Shaping Brazil Narrative Stays Away From Dark Chapter

Brazil's Marinho clan, with a combined family fortune of $18 billion, is trying to move beyond a past that keeps popping up between the cracks of today's impeachment crisis.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Allows for Confidentiality in Unresolved Investigations

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that law enforcement agencies have no obligation to reveal the identity or records of a person who may be or has been under investigation but who has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
8 minute read

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