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Firm News 5 results

Firm News | 2 min read | 05.20.26

Crowell Secures $23.3 Million Jury Verdict for C3.ai in Major Trade Secret Case

Washington – May 20, 2026: Crowell & Moring achieved a decisive victory for leading Enterprise AI application software company C3.ai, obtaining a $23.3 million jury verdict following a seven-day trial in Wilmington, Delaware. The jury unanimously found Cummins liable for trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract in a suit brought by C3.ai more than two and a half years ago.

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Firm News | 1 min read | 03.11.25

Daily Journal Honors Crowell & Moring Victory in University of California Case

Los Angeles – March 11, 2025: The Daily Journal recognized Crowell & Moring’s victory in Mass v. The Regents of the University of California as one of the “Top Verdicts of 2024.”

Firm News | 1 min read | 09.17.24

LITIGATION NOTE: Eighth Circuit Adopts Crowell’s Arguments in Important LGBTQ+ Rights Litigation

Washington – September 17, 2024: The United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit recently adopted arguments put forward by Crowell & Moring lawyers in a case opposing an Iowa law that bans school officials from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation with students (its “Don’t Say Gay” provision) and requires the removal of certain books from Iowa public school libraries (its “Book Ban” provision).

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Client Alerts 25 results

Client Alert | 5 min read | 08.26.26

The Pipe, Not the Posts: Part Deux

In our previous client alert, we addressed how algorithms and platform features that rely on user generated speech might not receive Section 230 protections because those features may not be considered platform user content. In these instances, the platform might not carry user generated water through the pipe, but adds its own to the mixture. At the same time, if it is true that there is less Section 230 protection, these same elements should then imbue the content with First Amendment protections as the expressive content of the platform.

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Client Alert | 6 min read | 08.03.26

The Pipe, Not the Posts: How Section 230’s Protections Extend to Generative AI Platforms

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“Section 230”) protects online platforms from liability for user-generated speech. Based on the premise that platforms generally do not create original content but instead curate their users’ own speech, Section 230’s protections have historically applied to a platform’s algorithmically assembled, selected or sequenced content; algorithms or features that amplified or directed user generated speech to particular users were generally protected. Indeed, the old rule of thumb was the more a platform used algorithms or automation, the more likely user generated speech remained user generated speech. GenAI has the potential to change that calculus. A platform that ingests user generated content and publishes a transformed output, can blur Section 230’s line between publication and creation. The central question is whether Section 230 protects GenAI, which analyzes, but does not alter, user-created content to produce an outcome, and its corresponding outputs.

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 06.29.26

When Trade Secret Theft Becomes Racketeering: What the Fifth Circuit’s New Ruling Means

RICO was built for the mob. But Congress gave trade secret victims access to it in 2016, and a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision shows that access is real.

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Press Coverage 4 results

Press Coverage | 07.23.26

Universities drop AI detection tools over fears about accuracy

Financial Times

Press Coverage | 07.21.25

Judges' AI Orders Keep Trickling In As Fake Citations Persist By Sarah

Law360

Press Coverage | 09.04.24

AI Co. Keeps Engine Supplier In Trade Secrets Suit

Law360

Publications 3 results

Publication | 05.14.26

Section 230 is Starting to Show its Cracks

Daily Journal

Publication | 03.14.24

Writing Advice For Lawyers From Nonlawyers

ABA Journal

Publication | 07.18.23

Venture Capital, Tech Firms Push For DOD Procurement Reform

Westlaw

Events 2 results

Event | 04.23.25, 6:00 PM EDT - 8:00 PM EDT

Event | 04.18.23, 2:00 PM PDT - 7:00 PM PDT

Technology Trends and Predictions 2023: U.S. and Global Perspective

Please join us for a series of panels that will discuss and address the cutting-edge issues in technology impacting in-house legal teams navigating commercial risk and enforcement. This program will tackle important issues from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to antitrust, and from privacy issues to SEC regulatory schemes. Moreover, we recognize that many of the current, as well as future issues have an international component. Our presenters will provide companies with critical information not just on U.S. law and issues, but also touch button issues in Asia and Europe.

Webinars 1 result

Webinar | 06.11.25, 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT

Section 230: Implications for Digital Platforms, Online Businesses and E-Commerce

Section 230 was enacted as part of the United States Communications Decency Act (CDA), providing immunity to interactive computer service providers for third-party content. Known as “the 26 words that created the internet,” this statute is responsible for the development of the modern internet as we know it.