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The Briefing: Truth Maybe Crazy, But Truth Just Got Kanye West Out of a Defamation Case
(Podcast) The Briefing: Truth Maybe Crazy, But Truth Just Got Kanye West Out of a Defamation Case
(Podcast) The Briefing: Nirvana Stuck in Lawsuit Over “Nevermind” Album Cover
The Briefing: Nirvana Stuck in Lawsuit Over “Nevermind” Album Cover
Greenwashing and Compliance Risk
Negative Online Reviews and Reputation Management: Tips for Health Care Practices and Providers
Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 90- Salesforce, the Trump Risk & Compliance
Defamation is the line between free and unlawful speech. Doxing is the disclosure of another’s personally identifiable information with the intent to bring the internet’s violent speech to their front door. Online defamation...more
Complaints are a crucial component of any business’s integrity. But all too often complaints are overlooked because of the very nature of them. The rise of grievances being aired across social media platforms has desensitized...more
Online gaming Social Mediacommunities are incubators of defamation. Competitiveness combined with the ostensibly impenetrable shield of online pseudonyms and geographic distance from your opponent invites participants to...more
Our last two posts in this series discussed how a Red Notice can have a residual effect on an individual. Those posts detailed the effects on a person’s financial abilities and lasting inaccurate data within a government’s...more
Discover how truth became the ultimate defense in the legal battle between Cynthia Love and Kanye West. Join Scott Hervey and Eric Caligiuri from Weintraub Tobin as they unpack the court's ruling on whether displaying...more
Imagine you are scrolling on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, or one of the multitude of other social media platforms that almost every one of us have on our devices, and you come across a video of a physician discussing medical...more
Social media and digital spaces are the prisms through which people view the world. It is where people communicate, receive news and information, and develop beliefs of morality, ethics, and fact. Truth has become relative...more
Everyone is a little braver when hiding behind their keyboard. Words fly a little easier online where the speaker and target of the speech do not occupy the same physical space. The exponential echoes of manufactured gossip...more
The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in recent years has overlapped with the enactment of comprehensive privacy laws by multiple U.S. states. Aside from being generally applicable to AI systems in the...more
Incidents of defamation and online harassment have become increasingly prevalent as society relies more and more on the internet to communicate and share information. The increased use of social media to connect, in both...more
From “Bare Minimum Mondays” to “Put Your Boss on Blast on TikTok Fridays,” loud quitting is the new emerging resignation trend affecting employers. Where employees previously used “mouse-jigglers” to simulate mouse movement...more
On April 18, 2023, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems a staggering $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. Particularly startling about the settlement is that Dominion was valued at around $51 million as...more
Let’s leave aside the merits of Gary Lineker’s tweet about the Government’s immigration policy. Instead, let’s focus on how an expression of opinion has turned into this controversy....more
At the recent Leaders Week London conference, our team had the opportunity to meet with key professionals in the Sports industry and discuss some of the business challenges they are facing. Unsurprisingly, many of these...more
A positive internet reputation is an expected prerequisite for conducting business. Negative internet content, including negative reviews, can destroy an operation....more
Your company’s founder has been at the helm for years, and everything seems to be going well – they’ve worked hard, developed a great team, and the future looks bright. Then it happens....more
With social media, the number of defamation cases has increased. What is defamation? In a nutshell, it means that someone has written something about you that jeopardizes your reputation. Take the following example: “The...more
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" Who knew that the decorative cake baking industry could be so contentious? Three years ago, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colo. Civil...more
When it comes to the potential risks that can impact a business, the risk of reputational damage ranks at or near the very top of the list. In a recent study by Deloitte and Forbes Insights, 300 executives (C-suite and board...more
Skadden’s Antitrust and Competition Group and the economics firm Charles River Associates recently co-hosted the ninth annual “Antitrust in the Technology Sector: Policy Perspectives and Insights From the Enforcers” seminar...more
A recent decision by the California Court of Appeal in Behunin v. Superior Court, 9 Cal. App. 5th 833 (2017), is a reminder that a party’s communications with an attorney and a third party consultant must be reasonably...more
Social media is an amazing thing except when it isn’t. It’s a great way to share information about your business, start relationships, and expand your network. I remarked to the current Dean of my old law school that despite...more