President Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, tax-payer funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a ...

by guest bloggers Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law) & Zahr Said (Santa Clara Law) As we mentioned in our previous post, the Ninth Circuit’s intrinsic-extrinsic framework for substantial similarity has a nu...

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

Here is a real-time video of me trying to read any new Fifth Circuit opinion on Internet Law: Odds are that the outcome will be terrible; and even if not, the reasoning will be 100% cringe. * * * This...

President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...

A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors. If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions–me...

[This op-ed was first published by the San Jose Mercury News on Sept. 18, 2026.] Meta’s settlement with the state attorneys general has been touted as industry-redefining. Indeed, Meta desperately hop...

by guest bloggers Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law) & Zahr Said (Santa Clara Law) On June 9, the Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, agreeing to reconsider the test for in...

Deckers owns the UGG brand. It is a repeat SAD Scheme plaintiff. In this case, it sued 30 defendants for infringement, got permission to serve the lawsuit by email, and got default judgments against 1...

This is an unusual line to see in a court opinion: “Haley’s remarks about the size of Matt’s penis and its impact on her health and marriage were remarks about a matter of legitimate public concern.” ...

If you aren’t familiar with the mass-lawsuit campaign to weaponize California’s “Yelp Law,” Civil Code 1670.8, maybe start here to get up to speed. In short, California banned contract provisions that...

In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”

Alt: Captain America: No I Don't Think I Will

Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt

As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

Oak and poison oak

By now it's old hat to point out that the mainstream media bends over backwards to pretend that Donald Trump is a "normal" president. The number of times you could point to the coverage and question how the media would cover things if a Democratic president did anything even remotely similar is impossible to keep...

The Datta Center for High Tech Law is pleased to welcome Professor Erika M. Douglas to Santa Clara University School of Law and to our distinguished High Tech Law faculty community.