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“Stathas pleaded guilty in 2023 to enticing a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity” (18 U.S.C. § 2422(b)).

Created by ChatGPT May 2026 The issue is: if a website imposes a government-compelled age authentication wall, what percentage of users will stop at the authentication wall, either because the users turn around or fail to navigate the process?

This is a Meta Pixels case on appeal to the Washington Supreme Court.

On Friday, I did a Reddit AMA with the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit about the law of web scraping.

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by guest bloggers Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law) & Zahr Said (Santa Clara Law) As we mentioned in our previous post, the Ninth Circuit’s intrinsic-extrinsic framework for substantial similarity has a number of problems.

Here is a real-time video of me trying to read any new Fifth Circuit opinion on Internet Law: Odds are that the outcome will be terrible; and even if not, the reasoning will be 100% cringe. * * * Embed/in bed This opinion revisits the question of when emb…

For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors.

[This op-ed was first published by the San Jose Mercury News on Sept. 18, 2026.]

by guest bloggers Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law) & Zahr Said (Santa Clara Law) On June 9, the Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in Sedlik v.

Deckers owns the UGG brand.

This is an unusual line to see in a court opinion: “Haley’s remarks about the size of Matt’s penis and its impact on her health and marriage were remarks about a matter of legitimate public concern.” * * * Matthew Kalil was an NFL offensive lineman from 2…

If you aren’t familiar with the mass-lawsuit campaign to weaponize California’s “Yelp Law,” Civil Code 1670.8, maybe start here to get up to speed.

A section from my Internet Law casebook’s chapter on online contracts is titled: “Uber’s TOS Formation Madness.

The record labels sued Vimeo for user-caused copyright infringement in 2009.

This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious).

The plaintiff is Guangzhou Tinpod Electronic Technology Co.

In my previous blog post on this case, I wrote: This lawsuit raises one of the venerable but surprisingly vexing copyright law questions: when is a price copyrightable?

This SAD Scheme case ended up before Judge Buchwald, who shreds it.

[I have so many Section 230 cases backlogged in my blogging queue, but this one is jumping the queue because of its comparative novelty.]

Katie Sedgwick is a former client of LS Carlson Law.

The court describes the case: Plaintiff Channel 781 News (“Channel 781”) is a YouTube-based news outlet focusing on local affairs in Waltham, Massachusetts.

This case naturally raises some questions that Musk might choose to pose to Grok, like: “Grok, is it bad when TOS formation fails?”

This case generally follows the SAD Scheme template, but with several twists: it’s in the Western District of Texas, not the more typical N.D.