Recent Equifax Breach Prompts Criticism of Arbitration Provisions (Updated)

The credit monitoring firm, Equifax, recently suffered a massive data breach , resulting in the exposure of the personal information of appr...

Wells Fargo Turns to Arbitration Clauses to Neutralize False Account Lawsuits

The New York Times reports that Wells Fargo has been using arbitration clauses in its contracts with customers to defeat claims that the ba...

Michigan Residents File Pokemon Go Class Action Lawsuit

The attorneys at Pomerantz Law are at it again, and are attorneys of record in a Michigan class action lawsuit against Niantic and Nintendo....

California Lawsuits Allege That Suspension of Drivers' Licenses Violates Due Process

The Los Angeles Times reports : Civil rights lawyers filed suit Tuesday accusing the Los Angeles Superior Court of improperly suspending dri...

Evaluating the Pokemon Go Class Action Lawsuit

Several news outlets have reports on Marder v. Niantic, Inc. , filed July 29, 2016 in the Federal District Court for the Northern District o...

Pokemon Go Players: Beware of Binding Arbitration!

Unless you've been living under a rock or avoiding the outdoors for the past several weeks, you have probably heard of Pokemon Go , a sm...

Video and the Future of Excessive Force Law

I just learned about the shooting and death of Philando Castile by police officers during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Buzzf...

"Robot Lawyer" Takes On Parking Tickets

The Guardian reports that Joshua Browder calls his chatbot, DoNotPay "the world's first robot lawyer." Browder's creation...

Airbnb Sues San Francisco, Alleges Violation of CDA Section 230

On June 27, 2016, Airbnb filed a complaint against the City of San Francisco in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Califo...

Non-Disparagement Agreements With the Government and the First Amendment

Eugene Volokh wrote yesterday about a settlement agreement between a former employee of a Veterans Affairs Hospital in Washington. The sett...

Arbitration by Combat: The Consumer-Friendly Approach America Needs

A former classmate of mine, Amanda Werner, co-authored  this article  with Sonia Gill for some obscure political website .  Werner and Gill ...

"Arbitration by Combat"

An article on Game of Thrones , trial by combat, and arbitration that I coauthored with Raj Shah is now available on SSRN. You can download ...

Trial By Combat in New York?

A friend sent me this post by Eugene Volokh commenting on a colorful brief filed by Richard Luthmann, a Staten Island attorney. This parag...

Settlement in Examsoft "Barmaggedon" Lawsuit

So reports the National Law Journal : Aspiring lawyers who sat for the July 2014 bar examination are eligible for $90 each from software com...

What is a Pond?

According to the Iowa Court of Appeals, a pond is "a body of water," and a contractor's building "a pond that does not ho...

The Implications of the "Blurred Lines" Verdict for Weird Al Yankovic

The major intellectual property story of the spring has been a lawsuit by Marvin Gaye's estate against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thick...

3D Printed Left Shark Prompts Cease-And-Desist Letter from Katy Perry's Lawyers

So notes the ABA Journal , reporting on a letter that Katy Perry's lawyers sent to the 3D printing company, Shapeways: Lawyers for Katy ...