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29 Apr 2008, 2:42 am
SeyboldAshgate, 2007Review by Paul A. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 3:22 am
Paul Alan Levy responds [Metafilter] And candidate Donald Trump, whose lawyer-intensive ways it seems we were covering only yesterday — wait a minute, it was only yesterday — is making more news: “The presidential campaign of Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened legal action against a politically oriented clothing outlet for using the GOP front-runner’s name, which is trademarked, in its domain name and merchandise. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 4:43 am
Paul Mendelle QC, the chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, said the current limit of ten is “awfully young” and runs the risk of a child being prosecuting for crimes they are too immature to understand. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 11:49 am
by Paul Alan Levy The New York Times’ online edition carries a column by Stanley Fish, touting a book of essays by several law professors who, according to Fish, decry the ease with which offensive accusations and opinions can be published online and call for new limits on this freedom of expression. [read post]
7 Apr 2022, 10:36 am
From Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) (bullets and some paragraph breaks added): [A] controversy over Twitter postings by CallMeMoneyBags … presents the latest challenge in the Northern District of California to the well established rule, first established in 2001 in Dendrite International v. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 4:25 pm
Preposterous and a candidate for the 'grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like,' is how Public Citizen lawyer Paul Levy describes Jones Day's lawsuit against an Internet site for mentioning the Jones Day name without permission. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 2:31 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Last week I posted about the problem of an Internet Provider, Dynadot, that rolled over when the target of postings on the web site of one of its clients filed suit (in the now-notorious Wikileaks case). [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 9:05 pm
Ingenious tactic to get bad review off search engines: arrange and win a pretend lawsuit in some other state [Paul Alan Levy] Law professor proposes to give out tax breaks based on race. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm
., Volokh, Paul Alan Levy] “Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com” [Ken White/Popehat, Wired, Scott Greenfield] Bans on the singing of sectarian songs, as in the Scotland case mentioned here recently, are perhaps less surprisingly also a part of law in Northern Ireland [Belfast Telegraph, BBC] UK government “now arresting and even jailing people simply for speaking their minds”… [read post]
6 Nov 2021, 11:30 am
A very interesting speech-restrictive injunction case, described by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen): In releasing documents electronically pursuant to a public records request, a local government body in New Jersey made a rookie error: using Word to perform redactions in a manner that was easily undone when the requester opened the documents on his own device. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 2:26 am
by Paul Alan Levy Earlier this month, I commented on FIFA's persistent abuse of soccer fans in its opposition to "ambush marketing" -- efforts by companies to associate their brands with major sporting events without paying for "sponsorship rights. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 9:05 pm
Sort of a canary in the coal mine right there [Paul Alan Levy] It’s come to this: Providence Journal runs pro/con debate on whether to criminalize “climate denial” [Michael E. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 1:40 pm
by Paul Alan LevyFox News, which filed DMCA takedown notices late last year against three excerpts showing significant remarks by political figures during news interviews that were posted by ProgressIllinois.com on YouTube, as well as the Progress Illinois blog, has admitted defeat for now. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 11:20 am
by Paul Alan LevySince Eric Goldman is our leading scholar on the issue of section 230 immunity, I hesitate to question the soundness of anything he says on the subject. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 3:55 pm
by Paul Alan LevyThe CBS affiliate in Atlanta has been running a series about Lifestyle Lift, a company previously discussed in this blog because of its attempt to suppress criticism by filing spurious trademark claims against Justin Leonard, who operated the consumer commentary site infomercialscams.com where criticisms as well as praise for Lifestyle Lift could be posted. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 12:31 pm
by Paul Alan LevyOne hates to defend huckster Kevin Trudeau, a notorious infomercial scam artist whose efforts have been subject to extensive consumer complaints as well as FTC proceedings, but sadly a federal judge in Chicago has given Trudeau the opportunity to mount a real First Amendment defense by holding him in criminal contempt for having urged his supporters to communicate their support to the judge.In the course of proceedings before Judge Robert Gettleman in the North District of… [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 12:23 pm
by Paul Alan LevyAs often discussed on this blog and elsewhere, decision after decision holds that Section 230 protects the hosts of message boards against liability for the content posted by the message board’s users. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 5:03 am
., LEVY & BOONSHOFT P.C., DAVID M. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 10:37 am
(Eugene Volokh) So reports Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen Consumer Law & Policy Blog), with links to various documents, including the letter objecting to the subpoena, which in turn includes the subpoena as Exhibit A: 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… [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 8:58 am
Paul Levy's explanation of that effort. [read post]
