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In Re: OpenAI Inc., Copyright Infringement Litigation

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District court denies motion to reconsider dismissal of claims that OpenAI removed copyright management information in violation of Digital Millenium Copyright Act, holding that inconsistency between dismissal order and...more

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Litigation Byte (May 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

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Third Circuit Finds Class Plaintiff Lacks Standing to Sue Under the FDCPA

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the district court’s decision to dismiss a putative class action against a collection company on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue under the Fair Debt...more

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Cryptocurrency Platform Seeks Interlocutory Review By The Third Circuit Of Order Permitting Plaintiffs To Plead “Statistical...

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On April 11, 2025, a cryptocurrency platform (the “Company”) moved to certify for interlocutory appeal the September 5, 2024 decision by Judge Brian R. Martinotti of the United States District Court for the District of New...more

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Antitrust Claims Against Amazon Over Fulfillment Services

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On March 20, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s dismissal of consumer Plaintiffs’ Sherman Act claims against Defendant Amazon, Inc. (“Amazon”), with prejudice, for lack of antitrust...more

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Ninth Circuit Confirms That Sections 11 And 12(a)(2) Of The Securities Act Require A Plaintiff To Plead And Prove Purchase Of...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, unanimously reversed the district court’s denial of a technology company’s (the “Company”) motion to dismiss claims...more

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It Is Not Controversial: Factual and Legal Specificity Needed in Standing Dismissals

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MITEK SYS., INC. V. UNITED SERVS. AUTO. ASS’N - Before Dyk, Taranto, and Cunningham.  Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Summary:  Declaratory judgment plaintiffs must identify...more

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Supreme Court Issues Decision Affirming a Public Body’s Right to Censure Board Member

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In Houston Community College System v. Wilson, the United States Supreme Court held that a public body’s verbal censure of a fellow board member did not violate the board member’s First Amendment rights. The censure followed...more

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ERISA Litigation Update - October 2021

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Welcome to Goodwin’s ERISA Litigation Update. Litigation involving ERISA-governed benefits plans has exploded in recent years. Lawyers in our award-winning ERISA Litigation practice have extensive experience litigating these...more

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Distributed Generation Policy/Net Metering: Florida Appellate Court Addresses Whether Organization Has Standing to Challenge

A District Court of Appeal of Florida (First District) (“Appellate Court”) addressed in a September 9th Opinion an issue arising out of an organization’s challenge of a utility’s Distributed Generation Policy (“DGP”). See...more

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Employee Agreement of What “Shall Be” is Future Promise, Not Present Assignment

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that university bylaws did not automatically effectuate a present automatic assignment of patent rights and affirmed the district court’s denial of a motion to dismiss...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New Federal Appellate FDCPA Decision Threatens to Upend Debt Collection and Loan Servicing

On April 21, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision that threatens significant consequences for a variety of loan servicing and debt collection industries. The upshot of the court’s holding...more

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Ninth Circuit Dismisses “100% Natural” Chicken Advertising Case

The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a district court decision dismissing a case for lack of standing, finding that an advocacy group must demonstrate that it affirmatively diverted resources to combat alleged false claims to...more

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The LHD/ERISA Advisor - October 2020: ERISA Plaintiff Has Statutory Standing to Bring Action to Recover Spousal Healthcare...

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Plaintiff Doug Heckman participated in Nike's employee welfare benefit plan (the "Plan"), which was funded by UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. ("UHC"), and included healthcare benefits. Mr. Heckman's wife was covered under the...more

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Tormasi v. Western Digital Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

Last month, the Federal Circuit affirmed an Order by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, finding that Appellant Walter A. Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure...more

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Eleventh Circuit Rules That the Mere Purchase of Dietary Supplements Allegedly Sold in Violation of the FDCA Is Sufficient, by...

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A recent Eleventh Circuit decision took a broad view of what type of economic injury is sufficient to confer Article III standing, concluding that two dietary supplement companies’ alleged violations of a federal statute...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification Of Biometric Privacy Class Action Against Facebook

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On August 8, the Ninth Circuit issued a highly anticipated decision affirming the district court’s certification of a class of Facebook users who suffered alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

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Third Circuit Finds That No Real Risk of Harm Means No Article III Standing

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held, for the first time, that a mere procedural violation of a statute does not present the material risk of harm that a plaintiff must allege to establish Article III...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Rules: “Aggrieved” Person Does Not Require Separate, “Actual” Injury for Biometric Information Privacy Act...

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On January 25, 2019, the Supreme Court of Illinois held in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. that an "aggrieved" person entitled to seek damages and injunctive relief under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

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Appellate Division Rules Independent Contractor Agreements Signed by Driver’s Corporation Not Bullet Proof Against Class Action...

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On October 29, 2018 a N.J. Appellate Division panel reversed a dismissal of class action overtime pay claims brought against a freight-forwarding company that convinced the lower court that the company’s drivers and...more

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Appellate Division Revives Challenge to New York City’s Moratorium on Hotel Conversions

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In Real Estate Bd. of New York, Inc. v. City of New York, Petitioner-Plaintiff Real Estate Board of New York, Inc. (“REBNY”) commenced a hybrid article 78 proceeding and plenary action against the City of New York (“City”)...more

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Berkshire Museum Tries to End-Run Pending Appeal but Member Plaintiffs Decline to be Bullied

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After four months of silence, the Berkshire Museum suddenly demanded last week that my clients dismiss their still-pending lawsuit over the governance of the museum by claiming that the April decision by the Single Justice of...more

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Eighth Circuit Holds Deficient Fax Opt-Out Notice Does Create Case or Controversy

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St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc., No. 19-1794, 2018 WL 3719694 (8th Cir. Aug. 6, 2018) - Plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit in state court, alleging Defendant sent it 12 fax advertisements without including...more

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Federal Circuit Review - June 2018

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A Complaint Identifying Infringing Products and the Patents Allegedly Infringed, Accompanied by Statements that the Products Meet All Elements of at Least One Claim of the Asserted Patents, May be Sufficient to Meet the...more

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Ninth Circuit Finds Data Breach Customers Have Initial Standing to Sue

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The Situation: Relating to a 2012 data breach lawsuit against Zappos.com, a district court had found that a certain group of plaintiffs lacked standing to sue because they "failed to allege instances of actual identity theft...more

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