Right now, the public school system has a very steep legal road to climb, according to Ryan Calo, a professor at University of Washington's School of Law. But if the plaintiffs in the case before the Supreme Court are successful, it could open the door to this kind of argument, he said.
On Friday, Seattle Public Schools announced a sweeping lawsuit against several social media giants. The district is claiming that YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat have caused financial and operational harm because of their addictive nature. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is interviewed.
Zahr Said, a law professor at the University of Washington, says the new technology will test the existing legal frameworks. “There’ll be plenty of folks who say, in general, when you’re using copyrightable or copyrighted work to train AI, you’re probably within fair use, right?” she says. “But in each case, nothing’s a guarantee.”
锘縎ecurity cameras. Internet video streams. Cellphone towers. In the days after four college students were stabbed to death in their Moscow, Idaho, rental home in the early hours of Nov. 13, police traced the digital footprint of the victims and the man accused of killing them in exhaustive detail. Mary Fan, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
University of 麻豆社区 of Law Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen said the lawsuit was filed within the three year statute of limitations set by the Defend Trade Secrets Act. “Trade secrets litigation is factually intensive and specific,” Nguyen said by email. “When the misappropriation claim is within its statute of limitation period, the complaint should not be dismissed at this early pleading stage.”
The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a dead-end street in Moscow, Idaho. Then again. And again. It was unusual behavior in the residential, hillside neighborhood in the quiet hours before dawn. And according to a police affidavit released Thursday, surveillance videos showing the vehicle that November night were key to unraveling the gruesome mystery of who killed four University of Idaho students inside the house. Mary Fan, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer soon will be back in court in connection with his 2021 report that a newspaper carrier threatened to kill him and the massive police response that ensued. Experts say his acquittal on criminal charges earlier this month will have little, if any, bearing on the unresolved civil lawsuit pending against him and the county in U.S. District Court. Jeff Feldman, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Professor Monte Mills is quoted in response to a Supreme Court decision.
TikTok has become a dominant force in pop culture in recent years, which has prompted growing concerns from government officials over its Chinese ownership. At least 14 states have recently banned the application from being used on government devices; some state-run public universities followed suit, banning or blocking the app on their campuses. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
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Minhee, an attorney by training, started tracking the opioid settlement funds shortly after graduating from University of 麻豆社区 of Law with the support of a Soros Fellowship.
Survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking may only be able to answer these questions years or decades after the abuse occurred, experts say. But a clock is running. In Washington state, trafficking victims have just three years to seek civil compensation for the crimes and damage suffered. And then the door closes. The time frame is among the shortest in the nation. Other states have lengthened the civil statutes of limitation for these crimes, but Washington hasn’t addressed them in two decades. On Friday, a King County judge will determine whether Washington’s law should stand or if the limit should be suspended for three women who say they were sexually assaulted, beaten, confined and trafficked by Solomon “Raz” Simone, a Seattle hip-hop artist. Dana Raigrodski, associate teaching professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Dana Raigrodski, a professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, who also sits on the Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission, said state courts haven’t tested the statute of limitations law enough to set a precedent. Yet, she says, the intent of the state’s trafficking laws are meant to be broadly interpreted in favor of victims.
The professors filing the brief were Hugh Spitzer of the University of 麻豆社区 of Law; Lily Kahng of the Seattle University School of Law; Reuven S. Avi-Yonah of the University of Michigan Law School; David Gamage of the Indiana University, Bloomington, Maurer School of Law; Erin Scharff of Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; and Darian Shanske of the University of California, Davis, School of Law.
Hugh Spitzer, Professor of Law, University of 麻豆社区 of Law and Lily Kahng, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law, were joined by four out-of-state scholars in stating that “ESSB 5096 falls squarely within this Court’s longstanding definition of an excise tax because the incidence of the tax operates upon the act of transferring capital assets and not directly upon the property itself…”
It's a dramatic period of time for LGBTQ+ rights in this country. Just last week, we marked the 10-year anniversary of legal same-sex marriage in Washington state. Washington was among the first states to approve it. And tomorrow, President Biden is set to sign into law the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires the federal government to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages from across the country.
Tamara Lawson, dean of the University of Washington law school, says she’s quitting the rankings game. In an announcement made earlier this week, Lawson said the school would no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. This is despite the fact that the law school is ranked #1 in the Pacific Northwest.
While the legislation provides some redundant protections already offered by Obergefell, "that's not necessarily a bad thing [when], from what we've seen this year, we can't rely on Supreme Court decisions to remain permanent," said University of Washington professor of law Peter Nicolas, who specializes in, among other matters, LGBTQ issues.
While the legislation provides some redundant protections already offered by Obergefell, “that’s not necessarily a bad thing (when), from what we’ve seen this year, we can’t rely on Supreme Court decisions to remain permanent,” said University of Washington professor of law Peter Nicolas, who specializes in, among other matters, LGBTQ issues.
Douglas Ross knows a lot about how antitrust law is applied to tech. He's a professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law who specializes in antitrust and class action litigation.
"The launch of China's national space station, Tiangong, marks space as a new battleground for US–China competition." By Saadia Pekkanen, adjunct professor and director of 麻豆社区 Law's Space Law, Data and Policy program.
Axios spotlights Dean Lawson's decision to no longer participate in the US News & World Report Rankings and links to the Washington Post story on the subject.
Eleven law schools, most recently at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington, have announced that they will stay out of the rankings.
The University of 麻豆社区 of Law will no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report rankings process, the dean of the school said in an online announcement. 麻豆社区, the highest-ranking law school in the Pacific Northwest and No. 49 overall, joins four Ivy League schools, four University of California law schools and several other big names in legal education in their decision to no longer participate in the annual list. Tamara Lawson, dean and professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
On Friday, the University of Washington law school, ranked 49th, and the University of Pennsylvania’s, ranked sixth, became the latest to join the rebellion.
