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JANUARY 19, 2023

” Publisher/Speaker Claims. A couple of specifics: The false advertising claims don’t escape 230: “Had those third-party users refrained from posting harmful content, Plaintiffs’ claims that Defendants falsely advertised and misrepresented their applications’ safety would not be cognizable.”

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

US News began publishing a specialty ranking of online master’s degrees in education in 2013, when USC Rosier’s online Master of Arts in Teaching program ranked #44. USC allegedly orchestrated this scheme through its submission of false/incomplete data, and then advertised the resulting rankings knowing that they were misleading.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Kogan made a similar post to her account : MedSpa and Kogan published the photo other times as well. If the clinic is falsely claiming that he is, that’s false advertising and possibly defamation. When is a video showing content published on social media an advertisement, and when it is a documentary?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

2, 2022) Before the jury verdict in favor of Monster’s false advertising claim was this opinion resolving evidentiary issues. They weren’t directly asked about the phrase “Super Creatine,” whether participants had prior experiences with or opinions of Bang, or whether they had seen Vital’s advertising in the market.

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MAY 22, 2023

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.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Jones is “a social media influencer, media personality, and celebrity gossip blogger.” Defendant Johnson is “a media personality and the founder, editor-in-chief, and CEO of the celebrity gossip website Hollywood Unlocked.” Even without standing, Jones failed to state a claim for false association or false advertising.

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JUNE 21, 2023

5, 2023) Hicks alleged that defendant, a California agricultural corporation, misrepresented the environmental impact of its farming practices through its advertising and “Inaugural Report on Environmental, Social and Governance Actions.” Grimmway Enters., 2023 WL 3829689, No. 22-CV-2038 JLS (DDL) (S.D.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs: Each of the plaintiffs has a significant number of followers on various social media platforms, ranging from greater than ten thousand to several million, and most are “considered social media influencers.” The court was guided by Electra v. 59 Murray Enterprises, Inc.,

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JULY 20, 2023

for deceptive advertising of dietary supplements in violation of the FTCA and the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act. Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ”

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MARCH 18, 2022

They alleged violation of California’s FAL and UCL, false advertising under the Lanham Act, trade libel, and negligence. They also asserted several other claims against Qatar alone for engaging in a “hack-and-smear campaign” against Broidy, including CFAA, DMCA, and DTSA claims.

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MARCH 22, 2023

To empower consumers and sales representatives to make informed decisions, NutriSearch … publishes the NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements …, which is the leading source regarding nutritional supplement quality.” It arranged the initial publishing agreement between NutriSearch, MacWilliam, and the publisher. “As

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. Based on the above reasoning, the Court refused to grant an injunction against the novelization of Nayak’s screenplay by Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt. Apart from the Madras High Court, the Calcutta High Court has recently published the Draft IPD Rules for public comments by January 5, 2024.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Alex Roberts, Multi-Level Lies Marketing and advertising claims made by laypeople selling through MLMs. Social media influencers seem reasonably held liable, but what about when the seller is texting friends. Lemley: is/should there be contributory false advertising liability? Web of federal and state regulation.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

For about a decade, courts had realized that IIC had gone way too far, and had expanded liability in ways that didn’t protect consumers and facilitated anticompetitive claims about false advertising. 30, 2021) Plaintiff Daniel Abrahams formerly contracted with a publisher to author a series related to the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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