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27 Jun 2022, 3:01 am
By Alan M. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 2:33 pm
by Paul Alan Levy After Rocky Mountain Bank obtained a TRO closing the gmail account of a Google customer to which Rocky Mountain had mistakenly sent bank records of many of its customers, a federal district judge in San Jose decided not to allow public access to the report that Google made to the court in compliance with the TRO. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 6:01 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I am pleased to report that the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association has dropped its efforts, decried a few months ago on this blog as well as here and here, to adopt resolutions condemning court decisions holding that keyword advertising using trademarks does not raise trademark concerns because it does not constitute a "use in commerce. [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]
1 Dec 2008, 1:57 pm
By Alan White So far President-Elect Obama's economic team, while perhaps full of bright people, reflects very little diversity in viewpoint, coming mostly from the mainstream, centrist, a-little-Keynsianism-is-OK-but-not-too-much school of thought. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 7:56 am
by Paul Alan Levy For some time, Facebook has been serving me an advertisement from Google’s version of Groupon. The text promotes an offer for a meal at a well-reviewed DC restaurant: “this special deal from Zaytinya, Washington’s Most Popular Restaurant as voted in Zagat. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 12:44 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Late last year, I discussed a Florida trial court ruling holding that although section 230 forbade a lawsuit directly against XCentric Ventures, the operator of Ripoff Report, for allowing a user to post statements about the plaintiff, XCentric could be enjoined from continuing to host the statements once the author had been enjoined and XCentric refused to honor the author's request that XCentric comply with the injunction. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 11:54 am
by Paul Alan Levy The parties to litigation often abuse the process of demanding that court documents be kept under seal to protect confidential information, using the claim of a need for confidentiality for the ulterior objective of preventing the disclosure of facts that are just publicly embarrassing because they contradict the litigant's public relations positions. [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]
26 Nov 2007, 11:56 pm
By Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Analyst Something appears to be quite amiss at Interwoven. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 10:06 am
by Paul Alan Levy Does a firm that expresses an opinion "own" that opinion, and thus have the ability to prevent others from reporting on the fact that the firm has expressed the opinion? [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 5:28 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Citizens United, fresh from its Supreme Court victory giving corporations the right to bankroll election campaigns, has sent a trademark demand letter to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, complaining that a Facebook page entitled "Citizens United Against Citizens United" infringes its trademark. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 3:31 pm
by Paul Alan LevyRon Paul’s presidential campaign committee has dropped its lawsuit against the anonymous individuals who created and posted to YouTube an offensive video that attacked the candidacy of rival candidate Jon Huntsman and closed with an endorsement of Paul’s candidacy, using a pseudonym that also endorsed Paul. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 12:43 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Usha Rajagopal, a San Francisco cosmetic surgeon, has tried to use cosmetic surgery of a legal sort to improve the appearance of her online reviews. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:16 am
By Alan M. [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]
10 Aug 2010, 4:22 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Today President Obama signed the libel tourism bill, HR 2765, that protects against enforcement within the United States of defamation judgments obtained abroad that are inconsistent with the protections of the First Amendment, 28 USC § 1402(a) and with the limits imposed on personal jurisdiction by the Due Process Clause. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 11:05 am
by Paul Alan Levy I reported last spring that Mordechai Tendler, having lost his effort to identify four anonymous bloggers so that he could sue for defamation over their comments on reports that he had abused his religious authority to have sexual relations with congregants, had issued new subpoenas seeking to identify them. [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 Nov 2008, 8:14 pm
by Paul Alan Levy A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law to suppress articles it didn't like on a real estate transactions web site, BlockShopper.com. [read post]
