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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]
9 Mar 2011, 2:35 pm
by Paul Alan Levy We have often discussed on this blog the misuse of trademark law to suppress online speech that protects and benefits consumers, including both consumer commentary and comparative advertising. [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]
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]
3 Oct 2008, 11:24 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Yesterday I commented on the efforts of John W. [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]
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]
14 Jun 2012, 2:22 pm
by Paul Alan LevyNeil Meyer, an entertainment lawyer based in Beverly Hills, recently sent an oddly frivolous cease-and-desist letter to Lipstick Alley, an occasional client of ours that runs a message board devoted to discussions about athletes and other celebrities, with a particular focus on issues of interest to African-American women. He complained about a few postings commenting on a report about an actor named Chris Evans, apparently based on a report in a Hollywood gossip… [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]
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]
24 Aug 2016, 10:48 am
Patel had no knowledge whatsoever regarding the lawsuit that was filed in the Maryland Circuit Court” until the story about this was broken last week by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen). [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]
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]
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]
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 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]
