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8 Mar 2022, 5:01 am
A very interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen); here's the opening paragraph: This is a sad tale of hypocrisy on the part of a group whose litigation over the past eighty-five years has set many of our most important First Amendment precedents. [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 4:21 am
Trademark infringement claims as way to silence critics: Jenzabar gets comeuppance in form of court award of more than $500,000 in attorney costs [Paul Alan Levy, earlier and more] Court holds Google Books project to be fair use [Matthew Sag] Questioning the ITC’s patent jurisdiction: “Why should we have a trade agency litigating patent disputes? [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 9:05 pm
Operator of consumer-gripe sites repels subpoena seeking identity of disgruntled consumer posters [Paul Alan Levy] “ACLU: Cancellation of Redskins Trademark Was Unconstitutional” [WSJ Law Blog] Islamists’ targeting of writers and intellectuals in the West for murder is happening rather too often to count as random noise [Eugene Volokh, case of Tennessee professor] American secularist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh [Guardian] “Philadelphia is… [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm
A perfectly horrible idea [Ken at Popehat, Robby Soave/Reason, a more judicious view of Section 230] Wipe that true thing: “France says Google must take ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ worldwide” [WSJ/MarketWatch, earlier] MedExpress vs. attorney Paul Alan Levy: “eBay seller who sued over negative feedback dinged $19k in legal fees” [ArsTechnica] Copyright takedown order over random ink blotches [2600] Weight-loss firm Roca Labs, which took… [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 8:42 am
According to Paul Sperry at Investor's News Daily, Eric Holder and the Justice Department is conducting investigations and levying fines against banks that are deemed racist in their policies, based on inadequate loans to low income minorities. [read post]
4 Jul 2017, 9:05 pm
Court order forbids Facebook “from communicating the existence of the warrants to its users” [Paul Alan Levy] “The great intellectual property trade-off”: brief guide to IP by economist Tim Harford [BBC] Eye-opening if dogmatic history of how federal government and other institutions connived at residential segregation [David Oshinsky in N.Y. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 11:15 am
Ben's Blog for pointing to Mass Medical Society president-elect Bruce Auerbach's Boston Globe op-ed piece on Minute Clinics and DPH's response (and to earlier posts of Paul Levy's, at Running a Hospital, and of mine, here at HealthBlawg, on the subject). [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 9:05 pm
Eugene Volokh and Paul Alan Levy have been among those recently exposing as fraudulent some practitioners of the art known as “libel takedown” or “de-indexing injunctions. [read post]
4 Apr 2008, 9:44 am
by Greg Beck and Paul Alan Levy The en banc Ninth Circuit yesterday decided an issue of great importance to consumers on the Internet. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 1:33 pm
by Paul Alan LevyOver the past year, several sources have discussed the deceptive solicitation techniques used by Vision Media TV Group, a Boca Raton TV production company, to drum up business from unsophisticated non-profit groups by promising to get them free air time on public television stations for a series hosted by Hugh Downs. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 3:02 pm
by Paul Alan LevyLast month, Google announced a change in the way search results would be displayed: multiple search results will now be displayed from the single domain receiving the most clicks from search engine users. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 2:59 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Recently, Public Citizen was aligned with a lawyer named Charles Carreon, filing an amicus brief in support of his argument against allowing a publisher to pursue a a copyright-infringement lawsuit against his wife’s Oregon company in federal court in New York. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 10:05 am
by Paul Alan Levy Apparently out of the blue, a copyright lawsuit filed in federal court in Dallas by a German pornographer against 670 anonymous Internet users, who were charged with infringing the copyright in the film by making it available for download, has been dismissed. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 3:59 pm
by Paul Alan Levy About a year ago, the blogosphere was alight with discussion of an important statute of limitations decision from the federal court in Philadelphia, rejecting a libel suit brought by Arthur Alan Wolk, a well-known trial lawyer specializing in aviation accidents, against Walter Olson, a conservative blogger whose Overlawyered blog focuses on cases and lawyers that illustrate his support for the cause of tort deform and, indeed, his broad opposition to various… [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 9:45 am
by Paul Alan Levy In past posts, I have discussed the importance of the standards for deciding whether to compel the identification of anonymous Internet speakers. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 1:26 pm
by Paul Alan LevyIn several posts on this blog, Greg Beck and I have written about the crucial role played by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in fostering free speech online — and consumer commentary and criticism in particular — by protecting Internet Service Providers against liability for content posted by their users. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 5:05 pm
by Paul Alan LevyI have posted recently the efforts of Vision Media TV Group to use litigation to suppress critical speech on 800Notes, an online online message board devoted to comments about unwanted marketing calls. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 11:41 am
by Paul Alan LevyFor several years, Dominic Morgan and the principals of the Nevyas Eye Clinic have been jousting over Morgan’s contention that, by performing inappropriate lasik surgery on him in 1998, and overlooking indications that he was not a good candidate for such surgery, the Nevyases are responsible for making him legally blind. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 2:50 pm
by Paul Alan LevyAnother example of trademark law getting too big for its britches is provided by a lawsuit by Major League Soccer and “Soccer United Marketing”, MLS’s affiliated marketing arm. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 12:29 pm
by Paul Alan LevyThe New York Times has a story today about a video prank and its consequences for Domino's. [read post]
