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2 Nov 2013, 6:01 am
In cease-and-desist letters, the NSA and DHS have moved to squash satirical use of their insignia in connection with t-shirts and mugs saying things like “The NSA: The Only Part of Government That Actually Listens” [Paul Alan Levy] Tweet Tags: apparel, free speechSecurity agencies vs. being made fun of is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 9:47 am
An interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Consumer Law & Policy Blog), about a brief that Public Citizen just filed in VIP Pet Grooming Studio, Inc. v. [read post]
17 Jun 2017, 7:45 am
Eugene Volokh blogs about legal stratagems used to get Google to de-index damaging articles [first, second, third, fourth posts, plus more here and here] More from Paul Alan Levy on the issue of requests based on fictional litigants here and here. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 7:09 am
[Paul Alan Levy, Consumer Law & Policy] Tags: contempt Related posts July 21 roundup (2) Christmas In Jail (2) “Judge sentences man to 6 months in jail for yawning” (3) [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 5:22 am
Here are two book reviews recently posted to Metapsychology Online Reviews (including one by Neuroethics & Law Blogger Neil Levy): Neurophilosophy at Workby Paul ChurchlandReview by Christina Behme on Jan 15th 2008The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material Worldby Owen J. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 1:42 pm
(Jim Young/Reuters) Back in October of last year, Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and I wrote about various libel cases brought against defendants who seemed not to exist. [read post]
5 May 2022, 2:20 pm
Some years ago, Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and I wrote extensively about "Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 11:30 am
by Paul Alan Levy The lawsuit filed by Florida TV production company Vision Media TV group against Julia Forte has been dismissed. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 12:21 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I have discussed in the past our efforts in the Fourth Circuit to force both Rosetta Stone and Google to open up the factual discussions in their briefs about whether Google’s keyword advertising practices run afoul of the trademark laws, as well as the supporting evidence they supplied in the Joint Appendix. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 1:57 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Nearly five years after he withdrew subpoenas to Google seeking to identify four anonymous bloggers who commented on his expulsion from a rabbinical council and his dismissal from his synagogue over allegations that he had abused his religious authority to have sexual relations with congregants, Orthodox rabbi Mordechai Tendler has issued a new subpoena to Google demanding identification of the same bloggers (plus one more). [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 8:01 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Late last summer I described on this blog a disturbing decision by a federal magistrate judge that disregarded the consensus rule by which courts across the country have balanced the rights of plaintiffs claiming to have been wronged against the First Amendment right to speak anonymously in deciding whether to enforce subpoenas seeking identifying information. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 3:57 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Jenzabar, a Boston-based educational software company run by the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, continues in its efforts to abuse trademark law to punish the makers of a documentary film that shows one of the company's founders making brash statements as a student, hoping for a bloodbath that would spur a popular uprising in China, that she has since come to regret. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 1:03 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a ruling yesterday, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has embraced the majority standard applied by state and federal courts across the country to decide whether a plaintiff in a defamation or other lawsuit should be able to identify the anonymous authors of speech over which the plaintiff wants to sue. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 7:12 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Twelve days ago, I posted comments here about a Jones Day lawsuit claiming that its trademark is infringed and diluted by mention of its name in headlines of articles on the BlockShopper web site, www.blockshopper.com, and by links to the Jones Day web site. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 12:43 pm
by Paul Alan Levy A company called “Javelin Marketing,” which in turn operates a business called “Prospect Match” that generates and sells insurance leads, recently tried to suppress criticism of its business practices on several pages of Insurance Forums web site by threatening to sue the host of the forum. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 8:06 am
by Paul Alan Levy Last month, I discussed the appellate brief filed by Rosetta Stone in its appeal from a trial court’s dismissal of its trademark lawsuit over Google’s practice of allowing advertisers to pay for ads directed to Google users who express an interest in trademarked terms. [read post]
8 May 2009, 7:01 pm
by Paul Alan Levy We've previously blogged here about the important role that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act plays in protecting consumer commentary on the Internet. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 7:51 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a recent series of demands, a purveyor of "nutraceuticals" called mynutritionstore.com threatened to sue Julia Forte over consumer criticisms appearing on her web site 800notes.com, a forum for identification and discussion of telemarketers based on their phone numbers. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:46 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I have blogged before about a suit brought by "Vision Media Television," against the consumer-complaint website 800Notes.com, for allowing the posting of messages that criticize Vision Media's misleading telemarketing claims. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 11:30 am
by Paul Alan Levy When I first heard about Chik-fil-A’s threats against Vermont silk-screen artist Bo Muller-Moore over his use of the slogan “Eat More Kale,” claiming that the slogan infringes or dilutes their trademark in the advertising slogan “Eat Mor Chikin” my first reaction was outrage. [read post]
