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17 Jun 2017, 7:45 am
Eugene Volokh blogs about legal stratagems used to get Google to de-index damaging articles [first, second, third, fourth posts, plus more here and here] More from Paul Alan Levy on the issue of requests based on fictional litigants here and here. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 9:05 pm
Eugene Volokh and Paul Alan Levy have been among those recently exposing as fraudulent some practitioners of the art known as “libel takedown” or “de-indexing injunctions. [read post]
19 Mar 2017, 9:05 pm
“Utah poised to outlaw mentioning people’s names online with intent to ‘abuse’ or ‘harass’” [Eugene Volokh] In win for Paul Alan Levy, Eugene Volokh & co., filer of fake R.I. lawsuits aimed at search engine takedown agrees to settle [Consumer Law & Policy, earlier] Activists shut down speech at Ontario university by criminal defense lawyer who helped CBC radio host beat sex-assault rap… [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 3:05 am
Fuller investigation of that “reputation management” ruse of filing dummy court cases with the aim of getting critical web posts taken down [Eugene Volokh and Paul Alan Levy, Levy first and second followups, earlier here and here] “When Civic Participation Means Shaming A Non-Voter’s Kid” [my Cato post about an ill-considered public service announcement] Why America’s regulation problem is so intractable:… [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 9:05 pm
Operator of consumer-gripe sites repels subpoena seeking identity of disgruntled consumer posters [Paul Alan Levy] “ACLU: Cancellation of Redskins Trademark Was Unconstitutional” [WSJ Law Blog] Islamists’ targeting of writers and intellectuals in the West for murder is happening rather too often to count as random noise [Eugene Volokh, case of Tennessee professor] American secularist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh [Guardian] … [read post]
5 May 2022, 2:20 pm
Some years ago, Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and I wrote extensively about "Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed. [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… [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 11:01 am
[The latest from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), pushing back against threats of trademark litigation over parody.] [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… [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 3:32 am
Federal Circuit court of appeals says government can’t deny trademark as “disparaging” just because it frowns on its expressive content, implications are favorable for Washington Redskins in their legal case [Eugene Volokh, Paul Alan Levy, In Re Simon Shiao Tam opinion, case won by past Overlawyered guestblogger Ron Coleman] Mentally ill man walks into San Diego county recorder’s office, submits properly filled-out deed… [read post]
19 May 2022, 5:01 am
Cal.) about this amicus brief from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen).and Phillip R. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 5:31 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The opinion (Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee, Inc. v. [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 5:01 am
A very interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen); here's the opening paragraph: This is a sad tale of hypocrisy on the part of a group whose litigation over the past eighty-five years has set many of our most important First Amendment precedents. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm
A perfectly horrible idea [Ken at Popehat, Robby Soave/Reason, a more judicious view of Section 230] Wipe that true thing: “France says Google must take ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ worldwide” [WSJ/MarketWatch, earlier] MedExpress vs. attorney Paul Alan Levy: “eBay seller who sued over negative feedback dinged $19k in legal fees” [ArsTechnica] Copyright takedown order over random ink blotches [2600] Weight-loss firm Roca Labs, which… [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 2:58 am
[TMZ, Eugene Volokh] “Your Periodic Reminder that Blogging About Litigation Can Generate More Litigation” [Eric Goldman] Virginia emerges as libel tourism destination in high-profile cases [Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post; Paul Alan Levy, Public Citizen on Devin Nunes action, earlier] “Virginia Legislator Joe Morrissey Gets Called “Fool,” Sues, Arguing He’s Not a Fool” [Eugene Volokh]… [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]
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]
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]
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]
29 Mar 2023, 1:02 pm
A very interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen, Consumer Law & Policy Blog), which I reproduce with his permission: It was almost twenty years ago that Barbra Streisand filed a lawsuit that attempted to block access to a photograph of her oceanfront estate, bringing unwanted attention to the photo and leading to her being enshrined by Techdirt's Mike Masnick in tech/legal terminology as the progenitor of "the Streisand… [read post]
