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Judge Throws Out Triller Lawsuit Against ‘Jake Paul’ Pirate Streaming Site

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The suit also included a claim of false advertising after Online2LiveStream transformed itself into a scam site, offering events in exchange for credit card details but failing to deliver. Insufficent Due Diligence – Court Dismisses Case. Court Warns Case Could Be Dismissed.

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it is unfair to fail to disclose paid promotion/for influencers not to do due diligence on what they promote

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I’ll focus, as usual, on the false advertising bits and ignore the securities law parts. That reliance alone would not give rise to a claim for false advertising. Other statements against the company/executives weren’t sufficiently pled as false advertising (see below for unfairness analysis).

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Vivian Cheng focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation and also counsels clients on a broad range of issues relating to trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, unfair competition, and false advertising. She received her J.D. with honors from Emory University School of Law in 2014 and her B.S.

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J&J's talc subsidiary can bring trade libel but not Lanham Act claims against testifying experts

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Thus, it appears on the face of the Complaint that the study subjects alleged non-talc asbestos exposures were discoverable, given the exercise of due diligence, at the time the study was published. And if the matching process itself took years, LLT should have said that, but it did not.

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Second Circuit signals some minimal flexibility on Polaroid analysis in another strip club false endorsement case

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May 19, 2023) Whereas the timeshare false advertising cases might be making law largely applicable to other timeshare cases, what’s going on in the strip club advertising cases might have somewhat broader implications. The district court concluded that plaintiffs’ false endorsement claims were foreclosed by Electra v.