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Thomas R. Burke

Partner
 
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Suite 800
505 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California  94111-6533
(San Francisco Co.)

Telephone: 415-276-6500
Fax: 415-276-6599
http://www.dwt.com



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Practice AreasInternet Law; Media Law; Intellectual Property; Litigation
 
EducationUniversity of San Francisco, J.D., magna cum laude, 1989, Arizona State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1984
 
Admitted1989, California
 
BiographyExtern Law Clerk to the Hon. Marilyn Hall Patel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Fall, 1988.
 
ISLN908664977
 

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9th Circuit Deals Blow to "Professional" CAN-SPAM Complaint Mills
Thomas R. Burke, Ambika K. Doran, Randy Gainer, Ronald G. London, August 18, 2009
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has decided Gordon v. Virtumundo, Inc. in a manner that deals a serious, perhaps fatal, blow to the ability of "professional plaintiff" anti-spam activists to collect unsolicited commercial e-mails, or "spam," and bring costly,...

U.S. Court Rejects Journalist's First and Fourth Amendment Claims in Accident Coverage
Thomas R. Burke, Duffy Carolan, Jeff Glasser, Dan Laidman, July 6, 2009
In Chavez v. City of Oakland, No. C 08-04015 CRB (N.D. Cal. June 2, 2009), U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that an Oakland police officer did not violate a newspaper photographer's First Amendment rights by detaining him after he attempted to take photographs at the site of a freeway...

Update: 9th Circuit Panel Modifies Yahoo! Decision on Section 230
Kelli L. Sager, Bruce E. H. Johnson, Thomas R. Burke, Ambika K. Doran, July 6, 2009
An advisory circulated last month summarized the 9th Circuit's May 7, 2009, decision in Barnes v. Yahoo!, 2009 WL 1232367, which reaffirmed the broad scope of immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, but also allowed the plaintiff to proceed with her promissory estoppel claim...



 

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