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28 Aug 2021, 1:52 pm
“Twitter rejects blue check mark verification for former Viking, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page; According to Twitter, the pro football Hall of Famer and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice lacks the ‘notability’ needed before it bestows its coveted blue check mark signaling verification”: Paul Walsh of The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this report. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 8:21 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a previous post, I discussed abusive trademark claims put forward by Jones Day seeking to suppress speech on the BlockShopper web site about two of its associates that it did not like. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 1:22 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Earlier this month I blogged about the legal issues raised by a subpoena used by a religious cult, Art of Living, relying on a marginal copyright claim as a basis for identifying one of its former members. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 6:43 pm
by Paul Alan Levy After Lifestyle Lift sued Justin Leonard for allowing putting its name in the "path" for pages on his infomercialscams.com web site where consumers commented on the merits of Lifestyle's product, claiming trademark infringement and dilution, Leonard issued a warning that the case was so lacking in merit that attorney fees could be awarded if the suit proceeded. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 11:35 am
By Alan M. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 8:33 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I blogged earlier this year about the sudden end of a mass downloading lawsuit that was brought by Texas lawyer Evan Stone against hundreds of individuals who allegedly downloaded his client's "adult" movie. I pointed out then that, after the trial judge appointed me and two EFF lawyers as counsel ad litem for the Doe defendants, and we caught Stone red-handed in a serious violation of the discovery rules, Stone dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice… [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 8:52 am
by Paul Alan Levy Judge Carl Barbier has issued a significant decision construing and applying the Lousiana anti-SLAPP statute. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 4:01 pm
by Paul Alan LevyThere is an interesting discussion about the impact of the Internet (and the economic downturn) on the ability of the press to conduct in-depth investigations, and hence of the need to protect whistleblowers, in today's Fourth Circuit ruling about whether the First Amendment protects a police official's leaking to the Baltimore Sun of an internal memo addressing at a coverup of complaint wrongdoing in connection with a shooting of a citizen by the police… [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 10:53 am
by Paul Alan Levy As previously discussed here, Houlihan Smith, a Chicago investment bank, obtained a temporary restraining order against 800Notes.com after it refused to remove negative comments from consumers (and former employees) but then was denied a preliminary injunction after Julia Forte, the operator of 800Notes, got notice of the suit and was able to call to the Court's attention section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, as well as the plaintiff’s factual… [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 4:41 pm
by Paul Alan LevyLast month, I posted briefly about an affidavit from Frank Farance, the former high school math wizard whose expert testimony has been offered by Jenzabar to contradict Google’s announcement that it does not use keyword tags in computing search ranking. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 2:49 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In an op-ed published today, Larry Lessig calls for reform of the Copyright Code to prevent the sort of political censorship that I discussed a few days ago here. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 2:53 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a decision that apparently expands copyright law far beyond its intended scope, a federal judge has held that a company (in this case, Swatch) that conducts a newsworthy conference with security analysts of its own choosing can register a copyright in its statements, by the simple device of recording the conference, and then bring an infringement action against someone (in this case, Bloomberg) who makes its own record of the statements and provides too much of those… [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 8:33 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I blogged earlier this year about the sudden end of a mass downloading lawsuit that was brought by Texas lawyer Evan Stone against hundreds of individuals who allegedly downloaded his client's "adult" movie. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 10:18 am
Authored by: Alan Middleton In a 5-4 decision, the Washington Supreme Court held that a 25-year lease subject to the Manufactured/Mobile Home Landlord-Tenant Act (MHLTA), RCW 59.20, does not violate the MHLTA's prohibition against restrictions on assignment, RCW 59.20.060(2)(d), .073(1), if the lease provides that the lease term is shortened to one or two years in the event of assignment. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 2:27 pm
by Paul Alan LevyA few months ago I discussed the denial of Houlihan Smith’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Julia Forte for allowing allegedly defamatory postings to remain on the 800Notes.com and whocallsme.com web sites. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 3:30 am
Robert Alan Hersey, Jennifer McCormack, & Gillian E. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 8:34 am
The parties in the anonymous blogging case could have had ten thousand "meet and confers" in the amount of time (not to mention money) they have spent debating the finer points of the Local Rule.In our latest installment, The Kluginator further elucidates the difference between a "motion" and a "request" for purposes of the governmental mandate to actually communicate with opposing counsel:Defendant argues that Plaintiffs failed to comply with the local rules regarding… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 11:31 am
The prosecutors had asked for 2 years and Mendelsohn's lawyers asked for probation. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 2:59 am
Complaint – 21BCC00015 Read More [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 9:02 am
Says Professor Bainbridge, via Instapundit ... and, as you know, I agree. [read post]
