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4 Jul 2017, 9:05 pm
Court order forbids Facebook “from communicating the existence of the warrants to its users” [Paul Alan Levy] “The great intellectual property trade-off”: brief guide to IP by economist Tim Harford [BBC] Eye-opening if dogmatic history of how federal government and other institutions connived at residential segregation [David Oshinsky in N.Y. [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 4:21 am
Trademark infringement claims as way to silence critics: Jenzabar gets comeuppance in form of court award of more than $500,000 in attorney costs [Paul Alan Levy, earlier and more] Court holds Google Books project to be fair use [Matthew Sag] Questioning the ITC’s patent jurisdiction: “Why should we have a trade agency litigating patent disputes? [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 8:42 am
According to Paul Sperry at Investor's News Daily, Eric Holder and the Justice Department is conducting investigations and levying fines against banks that are deemed racist in their policies, based on inadequate loans to low income minorities. [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]
20 Sep 2007, 11:15 am
Ben's Blog for pointing to Mass Medical Society president-elect Bruce Auerbach's Boston Globe op-ed piece on Minute Clinics and DPH's response (and to earlier posts of Paul Levy's, at Running a Hospital, and of mine, here at HealthBlawg, on the subject). [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 took… [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] “Philadelphia is… [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 6:29 am
Facing four harassment claims, embattled Philadelphia housing chief files his own suit for $600K+ [Inquirer] “Ohio State Abuses Trademark Law to Suppress a Fan Magazine and Website” [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P] “Judge Dismisses Baltimore Blight Suit Against Wells Fargo, Will Allow Refiling” [ABA Journal] Trial lawyer taking behind-the-scenes hand in Louisiana politics [OpenSecrets via Tapscott] “Are hedge funds abusing bankruptcy? [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]
16 Oct 2008, 3:37 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In the last couple of weeks, both the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign have experienced the sort of abusive use of the intellectual property laws that Greg Beck and I have previously discussed here - the invocation of phony copyright or trademark claims to suppress their free speech. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 3:32 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Scott Michelman recently blogged here about Judge William Alsup’s recent order directing Google and Oracle to disclose financial relationships with bloggers and others who have published opinions about the intellectual property litigation between those parties. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 5:41 am
by Paul Alan Levy Setting a new record for imperiousness, 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 anonymous comments that have been posted to 45 different stories on the paper’s web site. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:28 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Eric Goldman carries a report today of a decision earlier this month by Judge David Campbell of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 9:42 pm
by Paul Alan Levy A few weeks ago, I nominated the law mega-firm Jones Day for an award for the most abusive trademark claim brought to suppress speech they don't like. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 11:50 am
by Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen jumped into a case where a federal judge in San Francisco tried, albeit without success, to shut down the entire Wikileaks web site, based on a claim by a Swiss bank that among the leaked documents posted on Wikileaks were some highly sensitive documents revealing private customer information. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 6:03 am
by Paul Alan Levy Coventry First is in the viatical business. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 10:41 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I have recently had some involvement with two proceedings under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"), a procedure for deciding trademark disputes about domain names. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 9:37 am
by Paul Alan Levy Yesterday we filed a class action complaint on behalf of the patients of a New York dentist, Stacy Makhnevich, over a form agreement that she imposes on all new patients to try to suppress any online comments on her work that she finds disagreeable. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 2:35 pm
by Paul Alan Levy We have often discussed on this blog the misuse of trademark law to suppress online speech that protects and benefits consumers, including both consumer commentary and comparative advertising. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 9:40 am
by Paul Alan Levy There have been several stories recently covering the resolution of a lawsuit by Tom Rich, a formerly anonymous blogger, against the City of Jacksonville and a pair of prosecutors who went along with Robert Hinson, a rogue deputy sheriff, by using the criminal subpoena power to identify the blogger, who criticized a powerful local religious figure who ran Jacksonville’s First Baptist Church. [read post]
