This January, we celebrate CAG’s eleventh birthday!!! Last year during this time, we reflected on a decade of our work fighting and taking down Big Tech companies that have no regard for human life, predators in positions of power, trolls hiding behind screens to terrorize others, and stalkers who will do anything to get direct contact with their victims.

In 2025, we will all confront challenges not previously imagined.

At this firm, our mandate has never been more clear. We exist to represent the weak against the powerful, the injured against those who harm, and the individual at the mercy of the institution.

Cell Phone Store Pervs
We have been extremely successful in holding cell phone providers accountable for their pattern and practice of allowing their employees to steal nudes off customers’ phones during upgrades. It happens A LOT throughout the industry.

Acquisition of National Title IX Law Practice
In the summer of 2024, we acquired L.L. Dunn Law Firm, PLLC’s national Title IX practice, expanding our national practice to fight for more survivors in campus proceedings. Laura Dunn’s firm tirelessly advanced victims’ rights in campus, criminal, and civil systems across the country for five years. We had the opportunity to attend meetings at the White House with Laura back in 2016 when our firm had a series of Title IX cases against the NYC Department of Education for wrongfully disciplining Black girls who reported campus sexual misconduct.

Our work for K-12 and college students has never been more urgent as our current administration fights against the most basic human protections for transgender students, a group already most at risk for suicide.

Fighting for the rights of abortion providers and their allies
In 2024, our attorneys represented abortion providers, clinics, and allies in over sixteen states, all of whom were facing diverse forms of abuse. Check out some of our wins:

We won an appeal before the Court of Appeals of Tennessee against an antiabortion protestor who was attempting to weaponize domestic violence orders of protection against four clinic escorts. With the support of local counsel, we argued that state law did not support the plaintiff’s case, focusing on our clients’ First Amendment right to express their support of abortion access. This victory was a win not only for our four clients, but also for clinic escorts nationwide. The plaintiff’s appeal was funded by an extreme anti-abortion legal group hoping to establish legal precedent they could use to curtail the rights of clinic escorts around the country.

In Virginia, Laura Hecht-Felella and co-counsel Alexis Tahinci successfully defended a clinic against their landlord’s attempts to rescind their lease based on his personal opposition to abortion. In October 2024, the Circuit Court for the City of Bristol issued a decision agreeing with our argument that the landlord’s delayed attempt to evict the clinic – waiting until after they had fully built out and opened their facility – was unduly prejudicial and that the clinic had not fraudulently concealed their intended medical services. This victory preserved critical access to reproductive healthcare in a dramatically underserved region. We are now litigating the landlord’s appeal of this decision and defending the clinic against the landlord’s new attempt to evict them as a month-to-month tenant.

There is more work to be done in 2025. We will continue to be a leading force in defending reproductive healthcare providers and their allies from anti-abortion harassment and providing them with resources and tools to protect themselves so that they can do their jobs.

Back-to-back 9th circuit arguments to end 2024
Our tenth year ended with a blast!  On two consecutive days in December 2024, we had two 9thCircuit appeals! Our founder Carrie Goldberg argued Doe v. Grindr in Pasadena on December 3rd, and then went right up to Seattle for McCarthy v. Amazon with Partner Naomi Leeds.

Eight years after filing for Herrick v. Grindr, on December 3, 2024, we confronted the world’s largest gay dating app again in the 9th Circuit in its ongoing crusade to use Section 230 to avoid any duty of care – in this case, child rape. Our client John Doe is fighting to hold Grindr accountable for the sexual abuse of children after the app matched him with nearby adults. He was raped by one that lived next to his school, and then the same thing happened the next three days with different strangers.

The platform knowingly markets it product to kids with its campaigns on TikTok and Instagram featuring gay youth. Then the app turns a blind eye to the proliferation of child rapes on its platform. During the oral argument, SHOCKINGLY, Grindr argued that it doesn’t need to enforce its age restriction policy because there’s no legal obligation to not recommend adults and children for sex with each other. They are knowingly matching children and adults, and are taking zero accountability for it. This is a huge case that will create precedent about the limits for big tech liability when it comes to apps knowingly harming children. You can check out Carrie’s full argument from December 3.

Following oral arguments for Doe v. Grindr, Carrie and Naomi went straight to the 9th Circuit appeal for McCarthy v. Amazon, to continue our crusade to hold these psychotic tech companies that profit off the lives of children. The 9th Circuit panel ruled within a day for the WA Supreme Court to clarify the state’s legal precedent before deciding whether to revive allegations against Amazon for negligently selling suicide kits to children.

Oh, and we launched our new website!
In 2024, we fought for our clients and also pushed for legislation based on the trends we see in our work. Our legislative priorities this year are to expand the New York State stalking protections with the CREEP Act, to establish that defendants in revenge porn civil cases can’t use a “free speech” defense, to ban the household sales of high purity, Sodium Nitrite, and of course to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

We also committed to creating a website that would perfectly capture who we are as a firm – not just a team of badasses, but a group of talented lawyers who are doing rigorous pioneering work on cutting edge cases in the fields of product liability, abortion rights, sexual violence, and stalking.

We are so proud of our new website and how it showcases the work that we do, the team that we’ve built, and the message it sends to Big Tech companies, predators, stalkers, abusers, trolls and pervs. If somebody hurt you, somebody must pay.

While we do go after the biggest corporations in the history of the universe, we also go after your ex.  The heart and soul to protect victims has never changed. Getting our clients orders of protections, stopping a-holes who spread images and deepfakes without permission are NEVER off our radar.

Check out all our new content (see legislation page again!) and our beautiful new videos on our practice area pages: Big Tech and Social Media Injuries, Defamation Defense and Title IX.

A huge thank you to Studio Simpatico for bringing our vision, our voice and our work fighting big tech and a**holes, predators, pervs and exes over the past decade to life! Please share our website with others, and check back often for new content and updates.

Here’s to 2025 – as Carrie says, “sharpen your swords…”

Love,
The CAG Team

Carrie Goldberg, Esq., Naomi Leeds, John Aaron Stark, Laura Hecht-Felella, Esq., Roxanne Rimonte, Katie McKay, Zaynah Chaudhury, Norma Buster, Angie Hughes, Nicole Mateo, Roshelle Firdman, Colleen Chung, Katie Brennan, Jian Hong Shi, Amna Khalid & Bibiane Marc

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