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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 their minds”… [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]
30 Jan 2009, 1:40 pm
by Paul Alan LevyFox News, which filed DMCA takedown notices late last year against three excerpts showing significant remarks by political figures during news interviews that were posted by ProgressIllinois.com on YouTube, as well as the Progress Illinois blog, has admitted defeat for now. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 12:23 pm
by Paul Alan LevyAs often discussed on this blog and elsewhere, decision after decision holds that Section 230 protects the hosts of message boards against liability for the content posted by the message board’s users. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 3:55 pm
by Paul Alan LevyThe CBS affiliate in Atlanta has been running a series about Lifestyle Lift, a company previously discussed in this blog because of its attempt to suppress criticism by filing spurious trademark claims against Justin Leonard, who operated the consumer commentary site infomercialscams.com where criticisms as well as praise for Lifestyle Lift could be posted. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 11:20 am
by Paul Alan LevySince Eric Goldman is our leading scholar on the issue of section 230 immunity, I hesitate to question the soundness of anything he says on the subject. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 12:31 pm
by Paul Alan LevyOne hates to defend huckster Kevin Trudeau, a notorious infomercial scam artist whose efforts have been subject to extensive consumer complaints as well as FTC proceedings, but sadly a federal judge in Chicago has given Trudeau the opportunity to mount a real First Amendment defense by holding him in criminal contempt for having urged his supporters to communicate their support to the judge.In the course of proceedings before Judge Robert Gettleman in the North District of… [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 5:03 am
., LEVY & BOONSHOFT P.C., DAVID M. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 8:58 am
Paul Levy's explanation of that effort. [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 anonymous comments that have… [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 4:42 am
Paul Alan Levy at Public Citizen wasn’t satisfied when the gag order was lifted, after news of the subpoena went viral. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 3:58 pm
(Courtesy of Mark Levy of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP) Yesterday, Akin Gump filed the attached amicus brief on behalf of the U.S. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 10:31 am
by Paul Alan Levy The litigation reported last month in which Thomas Cooley Law School sought to stanch adverse publicity by suing anonymous critics has taken a couple of odd turns. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 1:20 pm
by Paul Alan Levy This week the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an excellent decision rejecting a series of bogus trademark claims and hence a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by Ascentive, a software maker, against Opinion Corp., whose PissedConsumer web site provides a forum for consumers to post complaints (or praise). [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 3:09 pm
by Paul Alan LevyMany groups at Public Citizen issue hard-hitting reports, but we are scrupulous about reviewing reports about particular companies and individuals to ensure their accuracy, not to speak of avoiding the prospect of libel litigation. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 1:58 pm
by Paul Alan LevyLast Friday, Danny Sullivan broke the story that the Attorney General of Texas is investigating whether Google violated the antitrust laws by deliberately depressing the search rankings of certain commercial web sites whose services seek to compete with Google. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 5:31 pm
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) has more on the subject; Public Citizen was the lawyer for the defendants. [read post]
17 May 2017, 6:27 am
Background: As Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and I noted back in October, a “reputation management” organization seems to be responsible for many — perhaps two dozen or more — libel cases filed against fake defendants. [read post]
18 May 2012, 9:36 am
by Paul Alan Levy A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles has made a decision with chilling implications for journalists and, indeed, for anybody who hosts speech by others. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 3:59 pm
by Paul Alan LevySports bloggers and others, especially in Washington and New York, have been abuzz over the libel suit filed last month by Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder over an unflattering article published in the Washington City Paper. [read post]
