Recent Articles
The 'License as Tax' Fallacy
Article, Spring 2022
Unreasonable: A Strict Liability Solution to the FTC's Data Security Problem
Article, Spring 2022
The Ping-Pong Olympics of Antisuit Injunction in FRAND Litigation
Article, Spring 2022
Content Moderation Remedies
Article, Fall 2021
An Empirical Study: Willful Infringement & Enhanced Damages in Patent Law After Halo
Article, Fall 2021
Recent Notes
The Best Data Plan Is to Have a Game Plan: Obstacles and Solutions to Reaching International Data Privacy Agreements
Note, Spring 2022
Mental Health Mobile Apps and the Need to Update Federal Regulations to Protect Users
Note, Spring 2022
Blog Posts
Gawronski v. Amazon: Kindle Class-Action Lawsuit
When Amazon controversially deleted copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from its Kindles back in July, the ironic parallels between fact and fiction sent the Internet collectively scrambling to brush up on its literary quips. Not a bad thing, at least from...
Employee Privacy Challenged
In an opinion earlier this week, the California Supreme Court held that an employee's right to privacy in the workplace is not boundless. An article on law.com lays out the reasoning behind the court's decision. It should be noted that this decision is limited in...
Jackson Browne v. John McCain: Copyright Lawsuit Settled, Case Dismissed
The lawsuit between rock artist Jackson Browne and Senator John McCain and the Republican Party was recently settled, and ordered dismissed on August 4, 2009, almost a year after the suit was filed by Browne. Browne filed a lawsuit against McCain, the Republican...
Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement
Twitter has been the subject of controversy as of late, primarily regarding the content of "tweets," Twitter's user-sent messages. Some of this controversy has turned into legal action. While the highest-profile controversies involve celebrities, such as the one...
Tweaking the Regulatory Compliance Defense
Last year, Professor Catherine Sharkey wrote that preemption is the “is the fiercest battle in products liability litigation today.” Catherine M. Sharkey, Products Liability Preemption: An Institutional Approach,76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 449, 450 (2008) . Earlier this...
Sewing up a $300 Wings sweater?
It's not often that we can legitimately link to an ESPN article here. EPSN's Lester Munson provides a great write-up of the stakes involved in American Needle v. National Football League. For those not following the American Needle case, American Needle manufacturer...