George Santos v. James C. Kimmel et al was a case in the Southern District of New York that pitted a cultural pariah against a popular late-night host. At issue was Jimmy Kimmel tricking Santos into making ridiculous videos Santos posted on the website “Cameo,” which Kimmel then posted on his show. Former Congressman George…
In X Corp v. Bright Data LTD, X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, sought to put an end to the practice of “scraping” by a company called Bright Data. (A scraper requests and retrieves information without manually browsing pages, often for tailored reasons.) The Northern District of California dismissed the case, finding that X failed…
With the pandemic completely altering the way we live, there are likely to be many parties to contracts turning to the “force majeure” provision of their contracts — or else, if they have no such provision, turning to similar, common law defenses. Force majeure is typically a provision that says if, by some major force, a party…