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2 Jan 2017, 5:52 am
” Reputation management may be one of the dirtiest businesses on the internet, as Paul Alan Levy and Eugene Volokh have recently exposed. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 6:27 am
” (Zachary Sloan had also filed a lawsuit on behalf of Profile Defenders, the reputation management company implicated in the apparently fake defendant / pro se plaintiff cases that Paul Alan Levy and I blogged about; but that lawsuit didn’t itself fit the pattern described in Paul’s and my post, and the cases that I discuss here likewise have a different pattern.) [read post]
[Eugene Volokh] More on lawsuits against seemingly fake defendants, aimed at hiding online criticism
22 Nov 2016, 4:07 pm
Paul Alan Levy, who cowrote our post on dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aiming at getting web pages taken down or deindexed, has been investigating the matter further, by intervening in a federal district court case that fit this pattern. [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]
31 Oct 2016, 2:40 pm
This isn’t the scheme that Paul Alan Levy and I wrote about, though it allegedly has a similar aim: It involves lawsuits filed by real lawyers against real defendants, but the question is whether the defendants are at all related to the posts that they allegedly wrote and that the plaintiffs (or the people behind the plaintiffs) want to see hidden online. [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]
25 Oct 2016, 12:45 pm
And Monday evening I learned that yet another pending case that shares the same pattern — similar procedural strategy, similar language in the documents, similar lack of any connection between the ostensible defendant and the ostensible defendant’s address in any public records — had been voluntarily dismissed, on the day that Paul Alan Levy and I put up our post on the subject. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 9:16 am
Two weeks ago, Paul Alan Levy and I blogged about dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting Web pages taken down or deindexed. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 11:17 am
I just wanted to thank Giles Miller of Lynx Insights & Investigations very much for all his help with research on Paul Alan Levy’s and my post about questionable Internet takedown cases. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 5:01 am
There are about 25 court cases throughout the country that have a suspicious profile: All involve allegedly self-represented plaintiffs, yet they have similar snippets of legalese that suggest a common organization behind them. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 11:14 am
Bigstock From Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), who represented the customer and her husband; here’s an excerpt (some paragraph breaks added): A state District Court in Dallas (Judge Jim Jordan of the 160th District) has struck down a lawsuit over a non-disparagement clause in a form consumer agreement, holding that it could not be enforced against a consumer who expressed dissatisfaction about the service provided by a local business. [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 10:48 am
Patel had no knowledge whatsoever regarding the lawsuit that was filed in the Maryland Circuit Court” until the story about this was broken last week by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen). [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 10:22 am
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has a post about a business trying to suppress consumer criticism in an unusual way: Matthew Chan, a resident of Columbus, Georgia, posted a series of reviews (for example, on Yelp) complaining that Mitul Patel, a dentist in Suwannee, Georgia, had induced Chan to visit his office by advertising an inexpensive dental cleaning deal. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 11:17 am
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has the story, with links to the motion to dismiss. [read post]
25 May 2016, 1:25 pm
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen — who is representing the candidate — has the details; I’ve looked into the case, and I agree with his analysis: The city of Mesa, Arizona, has threatened suit against a local businessman, Jeremy Whittaker, who is running for city council in opposition to a longtime city employee who enjoys endorsements from several current elected city officials. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 1:28 pm
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) responds on McCall’s behalf, and I believe the law is on Levy’s side: It is your contention, apparently, that an ordinary and reasonably prudent consumer would tend to be confused about whether it is the Sanders campaign that is promoting Sanders’ candidacy by associating him with the 19th Century theoreticians of the communist movement as well as with three ruthless Communist Party dictators. [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]
4 Mar 2016, 9:06 am
Thanks to Paul Alan Levy for the pointer. [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 3:54 pm
(For more on the lawsuit, see this 2014 Daily Beast article and this 2014 Slate audio piece, both by The Post’s David Weigel; see also this 2014 post by Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen, and this 2014 Techdirt post by Mike Masnick.) [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]
