Case Law & Court Rules

  On April 23, 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Convention on Human Rights held, in addition to one other finding, that the conviction for defamation of a lawyer revealing serious shortcomings in the justice system was a disproportionate interference with his right to freedom of expression. Morice v. France, (Application no. 29369/10). On 19 October […]

On May 13, 2015, the Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division vacated a jury verdict and a judgment after finding that plaintiff counsel’s comments exceeded the bounds of permissible advocacy and were prejudicially improper. In this case of personal injury, a drunken driver struck a girl after her school bus service let her off […]

On February 25, 2015, the Second Judicial Department, Appellate Division of New York Supreme Court, publicly censured a New York lawyer for not disclosing on her bar application a teen charge for petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The lawyer falsely answered “No” to Question 12 on her application for admission to the […]

Contrary to what is happening in Europe, on November 13, 2014, San Francisco Superior Court ruled – once again – in favor of Google’s right to freely order its search results. In June 2014, the owner of the website CoastNews argued that Google monopolized the search engine business and violated antitrust law. According to the […]

In the matter of Jared E. Stolz an attorney at law, Docket No. DRB 13-331 (2014)  The ethics charges against Attorney arose out of his representation of a defendant in a lawsuit. Throughout the course of the litigation there was a great deal of animosity between counsel. In response to the opposing counsel’s inquiries and […]

Lemon Juice, a New York resident, was arrested for allegedly posting in twitter account LemonJuice@moseh718 pictures taken during a trial when the judge had forbidden taking pictures. Eventually the charges against him were dropped after an investigation revealed that he had no connection to the Twitter account in question. Lemon Juice sought an order against Twitter to […]

White v. West Publishing Corp., 1:12-cv-01340-JSR (S.D.N.Y. July 3, 2014)   In this case Plaintiffs sued West and Lexis for copyright infringement based on the inclusion of two of his copyrighted briefs in Defendants’ databases. The court denied Plaintiff’s motion. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides a defense to copyright infringement that allows for […]

A coalition of parents has asked the 9th Circuit Court  to reject Facebook’s $20 million settlement of a lawsuit about sponsored stories. See more at http://www.mediapost…   Follow us on& Like us on   

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LegalZoom sales interactive self-help legal document. The consumer uses a LegalZoom’s web-hosted software that automatically creates legal documents without attorney assistance. The sale is carried out through Internet in all 50 States. LegalZoom business model has been challenged in a number of States for unauthorized practice of law. However, recently South Carolina Supreme Court approved […]