Judge McMahon Rules Outside Counsel s Pre-Suit Download of Online Dating App Does Not Bind Party to Arbitration Agreement lexology.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lexology.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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On December 15, 2020, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon (S.D.N.Y.) denied plaintiff Perry Street Software, Inc.’s (“Perry Street”) motion to compel arbitration of defendant Jedi Technologies, Inc. (“Jedi”) patent infringement counterclaim.
Perry Street makes mobile applications, including online dating apps Scruff and Jack’d. In May 2020, Jedi, the owner of U.S. Patent No. 10,164,918 (the “’918 Patent”), alleged that Perry Street’s Scruff app infringed the ’918 Patent. In June 2020, Perry Street sued Jedi, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Scruff app did not infringe the ’918 Patent, and later amended its complaint seeking to compel arbitration based on evidence that Jedi’s attorney’s downloaded the Scruff app and agreed to the associated terms of service. Jedi filed a motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining or staying arbitration, and soon thereafter Perry Street filed a
arrow Audrey Strauss at a July 2020 press conference about Ghislaine Maxwell s arrest John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock
After stepping into the role in an acting basis after her boss was pushed out, Audrey Strauss was formally named the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
The NY Times notes, [T]he judges of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, exercising a rarely used power, formally appointed her to the post, extending her tenure as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. While the court gave no reasons, the move clearly seemed intended to keep Ms. Strauss, 73, in her job until President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office and can fill the post with his own candidate.
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SDNY Extends Strauss Term In Rare Stopgap Measure
Law360 (December 22, 2020, 6:05 PM EST) Audrey Strauss was formally appointed as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday in an unusual move seemingly aimed at bridging a five-day gap between the scheduled end of her term as acting U.S. attorney on Jan. 15 and Inauguration Day.
Chief U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon provided no specific reason for the court s order, which allows Strauss to drop the acting part of her title from Jan. 16 until the Senate confirms whomever President-elect Joe Biden nominates for the role.
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Audrey Strauss, the prosecutor who took over as acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York after a standoff between her predecessor and the Trump administration, said on Tuesday she had been appointed to lead the office until a senate-confirmed replacement steps in.
Strauss said in a statement that Chief District Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York had appointed her to the role effective Jan. 16, when her acting appointment would have expired. Strauss has led the office since June when President Donald Trump fired Geoffrey Berman as U.S. attorney at the behest of then-Attorney General William Barr.