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16 Sep 2008, 4:35 pm
Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy is winning praise from some corners of the blogosphere for his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he says the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site... [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 11:35 am
The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers is pleased to announce new members admitted on Feb 1, 2020: Sarvenaz Bahar (Bahar Law Office) Douglas Geyser (Stris & Maher LLP) Paul Killion (Duane Morris LLP) Jason Litt (Horvitz & Levy LLP) [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 8:56 am by Eugene Volokh
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]
9 Nov 2022, 5:42 am by Ron Coleman
Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy reports: A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law to suppress articles it didn’t... [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 7:01 am
Paul Levy, over at Running a Hospital, is mulling over the war cry of the interventionist: Too much is not enough! [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 12:31 am
, by Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 9:10 pm
Paul Levy at Consumer Law & Policy reports that a firm called Adaptive Marketing has brought a pre-litigation discovery proceeding seeking to unmask the identity of a pseudonymous blogger who accused the firm and its parent, Vertrue, of improper business practices. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 9:10 pm
Paul Levy at Consumer Law & Policy reports that a firm called Adaptive Marketing has brought a pre-litigation discovery proceeding seeking to unmask the identity of a pseudonymous blogger who accused the firm and its parent, Vertrue, of improper business practices. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 2:38 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Late last week, lawyers for Jones Day filed a stipulation of dismissal of its trademark claims against the real-estate website Blockshopper. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 11:13 am
Paul Alan Levy, the internet lawyer with Public Citizen who is no stranger to attacking judges with words and imploring his netizen constituency to online action against his adversaries, was the apparent "go to" guy to put this alleged misconduct in perspective. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 4:22 pm by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy  Today President Obama signed the libel tourism bill, HR 2765, that protects against enforcement within the United States of defamation judgments obtained abroad that are inconsistent with the protections of the First Amendment, 28 USC § 1402(a) and with the limits imposed on personal jurisdiction by the Due Process Clause. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 8:14 pm
by Paul Alan Levy A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law to suppress articles it didn't like on a real estate transactions web site, BlockShopper.com. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 3:58 pm by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy David Kravets  at Wired has published a story about one of the aspects of the recent spate of lawsuits filed by copyright troll Righthaven over the posting of snippets from articles in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 1:36 pm by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy Jay McQuaide, the Vice-President of Corporate Communications for Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield, recently sent a stiff complaint to local doctors who published a study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reporting how doctors on its mental health panel responded (or, more specifically, failed to respond) to calls from patients needing immediate appointments for treatment of depression. [read post]
20 May 2010, 12:02 pm by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy Over the years, we at Public Citizen have been hostile to the doctrine of dilution, and especially dilution by tarnishment, because it distorts trademark law from its legitimate function — protecting consumers from dishonest marketing techniques that try to pass off goods and services as those of another, rather than the more trusted source that the name suggests to them. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 7:56 am by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy For some time, Facebook has been serving me an advertisement from Google’s version of Groupon.  The text promotes an offer for a meal at  a well-reviewed DC restaurant: “this special deal from Zaytinya, Washington’s Most Popular Restaurant as voted in Zagat. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 5:28 pm by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy Citizens United, fresh from its Supreme Court victory giving corporations the right to bankroll election campaigns, has sent a trademark demand letter to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, complaining that a Facebook page entitled "Citizens United Against Citizens United" infringes its trademark. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 11:54 am by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy The parties to litigation often abuse the process of demanding that court documents be kept under seal to protect confidential information, using the claim of a need for confidentiality for the ulterior objective of preventing the disclosure of facts that are just publicly embarrassing because they contradict the litigant's public relations positions. [read post]