Law professors explored the implications of a case where the use of a thumbs-up emoji was found to be a contract signature. Trump administration accused of hypocrisy after claiming the UK and ...

The fact that, in this case, one part of the communication comprised an emoji simply provides a modern twist to this otherwise rather unremarkable observation. There's much more in Prof.

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Saskatchewan's highest court has given a thumbs-down to an appeal in a legal case involving the use of ...

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 ...

What do I get instead? A thumbs-up emoji. That’s when I know I’m in trouble. As a millennial who grew up watching the evolution of messaging, I’ve noticed this shift in the meaning of the ...

I’ve never really been a fan of the thumbs-up emoji, largely because it has historically been associated with dads, and as a young man hurtling into his thirties with an escalating appetite for ...

A Canadian judge recently ruled that the popular “thumbs up” emoji may be used to form a contract between parties. The judge stated, “This appears to be the new reality in Canadian society, and courts ...

As for the courts, last August a judge in New York ruled that under the right circumstances, a thumbs-up emoji can be sufficient to signal agreement to pay the other party some $1,475,000.

Sending a "thumbs-up" emoji over text can have major legal implications after a judge in Canada ruled the simple response can represent agreeing to a legally binding contract. Justice T.J. Keene ...

One man learned the hard way when a Canadian judge ruled that a “thumbs-up” emoji ... the use of emoji and the like,” he wrote in his ruling. Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara ...