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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]
5 Jul 2017, 1:55 pm
In any event, this led Paul Alan Levy and me to investigate what seems to be a pattern of such fake-defendant libel takedown orders — at least about two dozen seem to fit that mold, and several of them have been linked to reputation management companies run by one Richart Ruddie (such as Profile Defenders). [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 1:02 pm
From Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen (Consumer Law & Policy Blog): The personal and commercial heirs of the deceased photographer Korda, best known for the iconic photograph of Che Guevara that has adorned Tshirts and posters displayed by young admirers for fifty years, have issued a takedown demand to Liberty Maniacs over its sales of parody items that display the photo's cap and hair but replace Guevara's visage with, alternately, Donald… [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 9:05 pm
” [Popehat on case of Ranaan Katz (Miami Heat), more, PoL] “Malaysian Arrest of Borders Clerk for Selling Allegedly Blasphemous Book” [Volokh] “Debunk a ‘Miracle’ – Go to Jail for Blasphemy In India” [Ronald Bailey] Careful about pouncing on The Oatmeal, you might suffer a quicksand-like fate [Greenfield, Paul Alan Levy,Popehat] Tweet Tags: bloggers and the law, First Amendment, free speech, India, Malaysia… [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]
16 Dec 2019, 3:06 am
Claiborne Hardware [Eugene Volokh first and second posts on Arkansas challenge, David Bernstein first and second posts] My own views on anti-Israel-boycott and anti-BDS laws here, and related; Officials in Lafayette County, Wisconsin quickly back off “completely bananas” suggestion of prosecuting news outlets that report “selectively” on water quality test results [Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Patrick Marley update] Some IP claims are… [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]
9 Feb 2017, 11:44 am
Congratulations to Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen Litigation Group, who has been litigating this case (and who co-wrote our initial post on the subject). [read post]
9 May 2019, 9:48 am
Thanks to Paul Alan Levy (Public CItizen) for the pointer. [read post]
16 May 2014, 11:35 am
See also the post on the Public Citizen blog about the case (Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy represented the Palmers). [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 5:01 am
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen, whose work I trust and admire, posted this at the Consumer Law & Policy blog a week ago; I e-mailed plaintiff's counsel to see if they were willing to pass along their side of the story, but got no response: Our latest case about the right to speak anonymously is in federal court in Chicago, flowing from a dispute between a prominent vlogger named Cristina Villegas and a plastic surgeon named David Shifrin who, Villegas… [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 9:32 am
This violates the First Amendment and common law rights of access to court records, I think; Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has just filed a motion to intervene and unseal in the matter (Shelby Resorts Corp. v. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 5:02 am
Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen — who took the lead in blowing open the (separate) Richart Ruddie/Profile Defenders deindexing fraud story — has just gone to court to set aside the order in one such case, Welter v. [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]
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]
29 Jan 2018, 2:51 pm
Back in Fall 2016, Paul Alan Levy and I wrote about one such scheme that we had uncovered (thanks to a tip from one of the scheme's targets, Matthew Chan). [read post]
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]
20 Apr 2017, 8:51 am
By Jeremy Rosen, Scott Dixler and Matthew Samet at Horwitz & Levy. * Amicus Brief: Airbnb, Automattic, Craigslist, Facebook, IAC, Reddit, Snap, Pinterest, Thumbtack, Twitter and Yahoo. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh relates the story of a Kuwaiti man sentenced to ten years imprisonment for "remarks [on Twitter] deemed offensive to Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, his wife and companions." [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 3:04 am
Eugene Volokh discusses religious exemptions of a different type, from mandatory autopsies for executed killers in Johnson v. [read post]
