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The attorneys for Epic games just filed a document with the court saying they did not know he was 14.

All of the court documents are available at the link below, including lawyer arguments and questions from the jury: https://www.docketalarm.com/ca...

Disclosure: I run Docket Alarm.

Available here: https://www.docketalarm.com/ca... Looks like there will be an appeal.

This is going to be a tough fight. Williams just filed for Forma Pauperis, which means she can't afford the filing fees. Good luck winning this one without having high-dollar attorneys. https://www.docketalarm.com/ca...

I skimmed the full opinion, but a 1928 case is instructive. In the 1928 case of Palsgraf v. LIRR a women in a train station was injured when another passenger dropped a box of fireworks that caused some heavy equipment to fall on the women. The women sued the railroad company (as they likely had deeper pockets than the person dropping the fireworks). The court found that the rail road was too far removed from the events that occurred to find them liable. Here too, Twitter is too far removed from the actions of terrorists to find them liable.

This is a pretty interesting example of classic legal concepts being applied to new technology. Anyone who says that the law is outmoded or needs to catch up, only needs to read this opinion.

Governments are supposed to have the ability to compel disclosure of confidential information, subject to legal protections. If you don't like the Snowden example, consider a less controversial criminal example, like a kidnapping in process. The point is that the 4th amendment allows for reasonable searches and seizures. Claiming that all searches and seizures are attacks is to deny the legitimacy of even uncontroversial law enforcement. Incidentally, even Lavabit complied with other government requests for data.

The complaint can be found here:
https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Florida_Southern_District_Court/0--13-cv-61358/Intellectual_Ventures_I_LLC_et_al_v_Motorola_Mobility_LLC/1/

The court docket is here:
https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Florida_Southern_District_Court/0--13-cv-61358/Intellectual_Ventures_I_LLC_et_al_v_Motorola_Mobility_LLC/

Disclosure: I run this site.

The complaint can be found here:
https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Florida_Southern_District_Court/0--13-cv-61358/Intellectual_Ventures_I_LLC_et_al_v_Motorola_Mobility_LLC/1/

The court docket is here:
https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Florida_Southern_District_Court/0--13-cv-61358/Intellectual_Ventures_I_LLC_et_al_v_Motorola_Mobility_LLC/

Disclosure: I run this site.

You can view the Complaint and all of the exhibits here:
https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/International_Trade_Commission/337-2926/Certain_Wireless_Communication_Equipment_and_Articles_Therein/499826/1/


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