Internet Law

WeChat app con - WeChat ban
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt at WeChat ban

After a rare Saturday hearing, this weekend, United States Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler entered an order enjoining President Trump’s so-called WeChat ban because it violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. A copy of the order is embedded below. WeChat is a platform much like WhatsApp, LINE, Facebook Messenger, that allows for communication…

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Strike 3 subpoenas
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Did you get a letter from Frontier, Comcast, Charter, etc. with an attached Strike 3 subpoena?

I first wrote about Strike 3 Holdings‘s “pure bill of discovery” cases in October 2019. Back then, the Strike 3 lawsuits were new to Miami-Dade County Court. Because they had so many procedural and legal problems in county court, I did not think they would they would last. Flash forward to nearly a year later,…

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Strike 3 Pure Bill of Discovery cases in Miami-Dade court
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New Strike 3 ‘Bill of Discovery’ cases in Miami-Dade

Copyright trolling in County Court: A fishing expedition I was surprised today to learn that Strike 3 Holdings, LLC, had begun filing “pure bill of discovery” cases in County Court in Miami-Dade County. The last time I saw a case like this was in 2014 when Canal Street Films had filed an action against Comcast…

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