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25 Nov 2015, 6:27 am by Eugene Volokh
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen Consumer Law & Policy Blog) has a very helpful analysis. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 5:07 pm by Eugene Volokh
Laura Brill, Nick Daum, Allen Dickerson, Andrew Grossman, Sean Jordan, Matthew Kacsmaryk, Susan Klein, Paul Larkin, Paul Alan Levy, Dan Lowenstein, Jonathan Steinberg, James P. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
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]
24 Sep 2015, 3:22 am by Walter Olson
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]
8 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
., 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]
22 May 2015, 4:49 pm
This is the case I blogged about Tuesday; Paul Alan Levy’s post discusses the case in much more detail — if you’re interested in trademark law and free speech, check it out. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
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]
1 Aug 2014, 6:39 pm
Paul Alan Levy, a leading public interest lawyer at Public Citizen, is involved in the latest phase of the Brett Kimberlin saga: “Readers of this blog may recall that Brett Kimberlin has filed a defamation action against two dozen bloggers and other defendants; Public Citizen is in the case for the limited purpose of defending the anonymity of one of the bloggers. [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]
14 May 2014, 2:57 pm
The anonymous commenter was represented by Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen, who has a fair and accurate blog post about this; here’s an excerpt: [T]he court decided that the discovery was not relevant to the state court infringement action [and thus the unmasking of the commenter was unjustified] …. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 8:45 am
I wrote about this incident last fall, and now the National Security Agency has folded (as has the Department of Homeland Security with regard to a similar controversy), thanks to the work of Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen, who represented the designers. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm by Ken White
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]
15 Aug 2012, 9:22 pm by Walter Olson
. “It is hard to square this subpoena with long-established protections for the right to speak anonymously,” writes Paul Alan Levy [CL&P] After the subpoena, which the newspaper is resisting, touched off a controversy, two commissioners reportedly “placed partial blame on The Commercial Appeal for reporting the subpoena.” Eugene Volokh wonders why there would be anything wrong with the newspaper blowing the whistle: “I… [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 10:37 am by Eugene Volokh
(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]
14 Jul 2012, 5:50 am by Walter Olson
“staggering chutzpah” copyright lawyer Evan Stone [Paul Alan Levy, Eugene Volokh, earlier here and here] Court says board members of NYC apartment co-ops can be sued personally over alleged bias [Reuters] “FASB retreats from disastrous litigation disclosure requirement proposal” [Alison Frankel, Reuters via PoL, earlier] Tweet Tags: accounting, animal rights, Barack Obama, housing discrimination, pleading, real estate,… [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [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]
12 Mar 2012, 5:31 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The opinion (Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee, Inc. v. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 4:21 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) That’s what seems to be one effect of the newly enacted California Reader Privacy Act. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 3:04 am by Omar Ha-Redeye
Eugene Volokh discusses religious exemptions of a different type, from mandatory autopsies for executed killers in Johnson v. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 9:03 pm
See also: Victoria Pynchon, IP ADR blog, TechDirt later post, Paul Alan Levy @ CL&P. [read post]