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3 Jun 2022, 8:10 am
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company... [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 7:58 am
by Paul Alan Levy New York Times reports on the battle over how tickets may be scalped between two groups claiming to represent fans, the "Fans First Coalition" and the "Fan Freedom Project," each of which is funded by rival companies that run major scalping operations. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 4:56 pm
Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of... [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 8:56 am
Max Mitchell (the Legal Intelligencer) writes about the Philadelphia courts’ response to the suspicious court cases with missing defendants that are aimed at getting Web pages taken down or deindexed — four of the 25 cases that fit the pattern Paul Alan Levy and I wrote about were in Philadelphia. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 5:42 am
Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy reports: 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... [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 7:01 am
Paul Levy, over at Running a Hospital, is mulling over the war cry of the interventionist: Too much is not enough! [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 12:31 am
, by Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 9:10 pm
Paul Levy at Consumer Law & Policy reports that a firm called Adaptive Marketing has brought a pre-litigation discovery proceeding seeking to unmask the identity of a pseudonymous blogger who accused the firm and its parent, Vertrue, of improper business practices. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 9:10 pm
Paul Levy at Consumer Law & Policy reports that a firm called Adaptive Marketing has brought a pre-litigation discovery proceeding seeking to unmask the identity of a pseudonymous blogger who accused the firm and its parent, Vertrue, of improper business practices. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 7:49 am
Paul Levy blogged an explanation. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 2:38 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Late last week, lawyers for Jones Day filed a stipulation of dismissal of its trademark claims against the real-estate website Blockshopper. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 11:13 am
Paul Alan Levy, the internet lawyer with Public Citizen who is no stranger to attacking judges with words and imploring his netizen constituency to online action against his adversaries, was the apparent "go to" guy to put this alleged misconduct in perspective. [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]
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]
28 Oct 2010, 3:58 pm
by Paul Alan Levy David Kravets at Wired has published a story about one of the aspects of the recent spate of lawsuits filed by copyright troll Righthaven over the posting of snippets from articles in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. [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]
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]
22 Jul 2011, 1:36 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Jay McQuaide, the Vice-President of Corporate Communications for Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield, recently sent a stiff complaint to local doctors who published a study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reporting how doctors on its mental health panel responded (or, more specifically, failed to respond) to calls from patients needing immediate appointments for treatment of depression. [read post]
20 May 2010, 12:02 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Over the years, we at Public Citizen have been hostile to the doctrine of dilution, and especially dilution by tarnishment, because it distorts trademark law from its legitimate function — protecting consumers from dishonest marketing techniques that try to pass off goods and services as those of another, rather than the more trusted source that the name suggests to them. [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]
