| 词条 | William J. Elfving |
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|name = William J. Elfving |office = Judge of the California Superior Court |appointer = Pete Wilson |image = |term_start = November 13, 1997 |term_end = |predecessor = |successor = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|3|17}} |birth_place = Corpus Christi, Texas |residence = |death_date = |death_place = |party = |children = |alma_mater = UCLA School of Law (J.D.) }} William J. Elfving (born March 17, 1941) is a judge in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.[1][2] He was appointed to the bench on November 13, 1997. Prior to his appointment he was in private practice for 30 years. He is the chair of the Superior Court Arbitration/ADR committee.[2] He is most notable because of his many rulings on specialized areas of intellectual property law. Notable rulingsIn a 1999–2000 case involving the DVD crack DeCSS, which allows users to evade copyright protections on DVDs allowing them to directly upload content onto their hard disk drive, he first denied the industry's "very broad request" for a temporary restraining order banning websites from the sale or distribution of the program or linking to places where it might be found,[3][4][5] but later issued a preliminary injunction barring sites from selling or distributing the program.[6] (See Universal v. Reimerdes.) On September 21, 2008, he issued a summary judgment finding for Google in a closely watched age discrimination lawsuit, concluding that former director of operations, Brian Reid, had not supplied to the court sufficient evidence supporting the claims that he was fired on February 2004 because of his age.[7] Reid alleged he was fired because he "didn't fit in with the company's youthful culture."[8] In 2009, he found that Yvonne Wong, a dentist, could continue to sue a couple who posted a negative review on Yelp alleging that "those statements libeled her and caused her emotional distress". In her lawsuit, Wong alleged that Tai Jing and Jia Ma defamed her by complaining on Yelp about the treatment their son received when he was 4 years old; they alleged the boy became lightheaded from laughing gas and had received a filling containing mercury.[9] The ruling was reversed by the California Sixth District Court of Appeals in 2010 [10] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.scscourt.org/general_info/contact/courthouses/family.shtml#depts |title=Family Courthouse – The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara |publisher=Scscourt.org |date= |accessdate=2011-11-20}} 2. ^1 {{cite web| url=http://www.legalspan.com/catalog2/faculty.asp?UserID=20001206122124121341%20%20%20%20%20%20&OwnerColor=%23A55A9C| title=Honorable William J. Elfving, Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court| publisher=legalspan.com| accessdate=November 13, 2011}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Suit Seeks to Stop DVD Copying |author= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/business/suit-seeks-to-stop-dvd-copying.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 30, 1999 |accessdate=November 12, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news |title=DeCSS temporarily banned from the Net · The Register |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/01/24/decss_temporarily_banned/ |newspaper=The Register |date=January 24, 2000 |accessdate=November 21, 2011}} 5. ^{{cite news |title=Court blocks online publishing of DVD decryption tool – CNET News |last=Macavinta |first=Courtney |url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-236015.html |newspaper=CNET News |date=January 24, 2000 |accessdate=November 21, 2011}} 6. ^{{cite news |title=Judge bars distribution of DVD copy software |author= |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7IaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aC8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6669,5610967&dq=william+elfving&hl=en |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel |date=January 23, 2000 |accessdate=November 12, 2011}} 7. ^{{cite news |title=Google Wins Age Bias Lawsuit |author= |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/business/main897515.shtml |newspaper=CBS News |date=February 11, 2009 |accessdate=November 12, 2011}} 8. ^{{cite news |title=Ex-employee alleges Google discriminates | url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/0724exemalleg.html |last=Evers |first=Joris |newspaper=Network World |date=July 26, 2004 |accessdate=November 21, 2011}} 9. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/102551/ |title=Court Allows Dentist To Sue Writer Of Bad Yelp Review| author= Wendy Davis| date= March 23, 2009|work=Media Daily }} 10. ^{{cite news| url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1544271.html |title=YVONNE WONG, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TAI JING et al., Defendants and Appellants., case H034059| date=November 9, 2010}} External links{{wikisource-author}}
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