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10 Aug 2012, 5:41 am
by Paul Alan Levy Setting a new record for imperiousness, Shelby County, a government body in the southwestern corner of Tennessee that contains the city of Memphis, has subpoenaed Memphis’ daily newspaper, the Commercial Appeal, seeking to identify the authors of roughly ten thousand anonymous comments that have been posted to 45 different stories on the paper’s web site. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:28 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Eric Goldman carries a report today of a decision earlier this month by Judge David Campbell of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 9:40 am
by Paul Alan Levy There have been several stories recently covering the resolution of a lawsuit by Tom Rich, a formerly anonymous blogger, against the City of Jacksonville and a pair of prosecutors who went along with Robert Hinson, a rogue deputy sheriff, by using the criminal subpoena power to identify the blogger, who criticized a powerful local religious figure who ran Jacksonville’s First Baptist Church. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 3:50 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a blog post today about the California Reader Privacy Act, Eric Goldman raises an alarm about the law’s possible application to bloggers. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 3:32 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Scott Michelman recently blogged here about Judge William Alsup’s recent order directing Google and Oracle to disclose financial relationships with bloggers and others who have published opinions about the intellectual property litigation between those parties. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 9:42 pm
by Paul Alan Levy A few weeks ago, I nominated the law mega-firm Jones Day for an award for the most abusive trademark claim brought to suppress speech they don't like. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 11:53 pm
by Paul Alan Levy A new entry in the contest for "grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like" comes from Chicago, where the giant law firm Jones Day has sued BlockShopper.com, a web site that reports on real estate purchases in two upscale specific Chicago neighborhoods, as well as in Las Vegas, Palm Beach, and St. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 10:41 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I have recently had some involvement with two proceedings under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"), a procedure for deciding trademark disputes about domain names. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 8:18 am
by Paul Alan Levy Over the past couple of months, I have blogged (here and here) about Arthur Alan Wolk’s campaign of intimidation against anybody and everybody who reported in unfavorable terms about his litigation against Walter Olson, Ted Frank and Overlawyered for having criticized his handling of a piece of litigation. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 9:37 am
by Paul Alan Levy Yesterday we filed a class action complaint on behalf of the patients of a New York dentist, Stacy Makhnevich, over a form agreement that she imposes on all new patients to try to suppress any online comments on her work that she finds disagreeable. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 3:37 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In the last couple of weeks, both the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign have experienced the sort of abusive use of the intellectual property laws that Greg Beck and I have previously discussed here - the invocation of phony copyright or trademark claims to suppress their free speech. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 11:50 am
by Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen jumped into a case where a federal judge in San Francisco tried, albeit without success, to shut down the entire Wikileaks web site, based on a claim by a Swiss bank that among the leaked documents posted on Wikileaks were some highly sensitive documents revealing private customer information. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 2:36 pm
by Paul Alan Levy GDS Publishing, a New York company that puts on seminars and published magazines, has threatened to take down the consumer commentary web site 800Notes.com for having allowed its would-be customers and its former staff to post warnings about its business practices. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 10:43 am
by Paul Alan Levy Last fall, Greg Beck blogged here about a law firm's cease and desist letter that demanded suppression of consumer criticisms of Direct Buy, and closed with a threat to sue for copyright if the recipient of the letter had the audacity to post the cease and desist letter on his web site. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 6:03 am
by Paul Alan Levy Coventry First is in the viatical business. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 8:03 am
by Paul Alan LevyThe Citizen Media Law Project carries word of a ruling by a Tennessee Circuit Court judge in Schwartz v. [read post]
19 May 2010, 9:43 am
by Paul Alan LevyPennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, who is running for governor, in part, based on his having sued to block the new health care bill on the theory that it puts the federal government too much into citizens' private lives, apparently doesn't have any problem abusing his access to grand jury subpoenas to put pressure on his anonymous critics. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 9:30 am
by Paul Alan LevyI reported a couple of weeks ago that Vision Media TV Group, whose scam directed at unsophisticated non-profit groups thirsting for free publicity on public TV had apparently resurfaced under a new name, World Progress Report. [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 4:17 pm
by Paul Alan LevyPostings on this blog have often pointed out the adverse consequences that follow when a company or politician tries to use litigation, or the threat of litigation, to suppress critical online speech -- particularly consumer criticism of goods and services. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 6:29 am
Facing four harassment claims, embattled Philadelphia housing chief files his own suit for $600K+ [Inquirer] “Ohio State Abuses Trademark Law to Suppress a Fan Magazine and Website” [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P] “Judge Dismisses Baltimore Blight Suit Against Wells Fargo, Will Allow Refiling” [ABA Journal] Trial lawyer taking behind-the-scenes hand in Louisiana politics [OpenSecrets via Tapscott] “Are hedge funds abusing bankruptcy? [read post]
