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Qureshi Law Joins Knight First Amendment Institute in Filing a Lawsuit Against Meta

Qureshi Law is proud to join the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in filing a lawsuit today against Meta in the Northern District of California. Filed on behalf of Ethan Zuckerman—a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—the lawsuit asks the court to recognize that federal law empowers people to use tools to curate and control their social media experiences, including their Facebook news feed. Mr. Zuckerman would like to release a tool he’s calling Unfollow Everything 2.0—which would effectively allow Facebook users to turn off their news feeds—but hasn’t yet done so because he’s afraid Meta will sue him. In 2021, Meta (then-Facebook) sent an aggressive cease-and-desist letter to another developer to halt his creation of a very similar tool to the one Mr. Zuckerman seeks to release.

In the words of Mr. Zuckerman, “I’m suing Facebook to make it better. The major social media companies have too much control over what content their users see and don’t see.”

You can read the full complaint here.

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Qureshi Law Has Won an Appeal Protecting Plaintiffs’ Rights Against Arbitration Clauses

Omar Qureshi of Qureshi Law PC and L. David Russell of Russell Law, P.C. recently won an appeal before California’s Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District.

The Defendant, Interactive Life Forms, LLC argued that e-commerce websites can bind consumers to arbitration in the event of a dispute just because a website’s term of use has terms of service that contain such arbitration provisions.

The Court of Appeal, in a published opinion, instead held that these “browserwrap” provisions on a website do not form enforceable agreements to arbitrate under California law.

You can find the entire opinion below:


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Cable Companies Have Created a Major Risk of Sexual Assault

Charter Communications, Inc. has a history of sending servicepersons into customers’ homes who then sexually and violently assault its customers.

Recently, in Saint Louis, Missouri, a cable repairman sexually assaulted a Charter customer. Charter subcontracted with two firms who hired the repairman. The subcontractors did not do a background check, and Charter did not ensure that they did so. Neither Charter nor the subcontractors sent a supervisor with the repairman, who had just started doing service calls on behalf of the company. Similarly, in Dallas, a Charter cable installer raped a 72-year-old woman in her home.

The risk of sending an untrained, unsupervised, and potentially dangerous person into the houses of vulnerable customers is great. In Las Vegas, Nevada, a cable serviceman working for a contractor and who represented a major cable company was able to assault several customers in their homes before the police finally caught him. In Chicago, another cable repairman raped two people and murdered a customer in her her home.

Unfortunately, these are just a handful of examples of a chronic problem that persists within the industry generally and Charter specifically.

A Charter Communications serviceperson sexually assaulted our client, and we recently filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, Inc. in Los Angeles Superior Court. You can find a copy of the Complaint filed by Qureshi Law below.

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