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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Lyft Blasts Uber for 'Witch Hunt' Over Data Breach
Uber Technologies Inc.'s push to hold someone accountable for a 2014 data breach has focused heavily on an unnamed Lyft Inc. employee. Now Lyft is saying its market-leading rival has gone too far, launching a discovery effort that amounts to a “witch hunt.”
Lyft on Feb. 18 filed a motion for a protective order that would prevent Uber from learning more about a Lyft employee, who is not named in court papers but who has previously been named in the press as a high-ranking executive. Lawyers for Lyft said that Uber has ulterior motives in its numerous subpoenas for information that it filed to try to beat back a lawsuit by a driver who says he was a victim of the data breach.
“Uber is abusing this court's discovery power to harass a third party, X, and to uncover internal, confidential, trade-secret information about Lyft ' X's employer and Uber's chief competitor,” wrote Lyft's lawyers at Keker & Van Nest, entering their first appearance in the driver's lawsuit, in which the company is neither plaintiff or defendant. “The court must put a stop to Uber's unbounded discovery campaign, which now includes at least 11 third-party subpoenas targeting information from X and Lyft.”
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?