A Canadian appeal court has upheld a novel ruling that a “thumbs-up” 👍emoji sent in a text by a farmer was a valid acceptance of a contract with a grain buyer. The Court of King's Bench in ...

The emoji you send friends could potentially be used against you in court, at least in Canada. A Canadian judge ruled this week that the “thumbs up” emoji is just as valid as a signature in a case, ...

The emoji you send friends could potentially be used against you in court, at least in Canada. A Canadian judge ruled this week that the “thumbs up” emoji is just as valid as a signature in a case, ...

Be careful before you casually dash off another thumbs-up emoji: A Canadian court has found that the ubiquitous symbol can affirm that a person is officially entering into a contract. The ruling ...

On January 15, Osiris Aristy opened up Facebook, posted a photo of a gun and wrote, "feel like katxhin a body right now." Later that night, he added, "Nigga run up on me, he gunna get blown down" and ...

There was a court case just over a year ago where a judge ruled that a series of texted emoji constituted a valid agreement to rent an apartment. A law professor has found that it was far from alone: ...

Emoji and emoticons are cropping up at a rapidly increasing rate in court cases, and while they’ve yet to be a deciding factor in any cases, Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman expects ...

What started as a run-of-the-mill contract dispute in rural Canada has yielded a unique legal precedent for the internet age: An emoji constitutes a legally binding contract. In a June 8 opinion that ...

An Emoji has served as court evidence in a debt dispute in Dingnan county, Jiangxi province, according to Jiangxi High People's Court on Friday. The debt dispute began last year. On Dec 22, through ...

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A court in Washington, D.C., has been stuck with a tough, maybe impossible question: What does 🌝 mean? Let me explain: In the summer of 2022, Ryan Cohen, a major investor in Bed Bath & Beyond, ...