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Date: 08/17/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Other
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Publication: Blog
Anne Grant maintains a blog, The Custody Scam, where she "writes about official actions that endanger children and parents trying to protect them." Grant used the blog to write about a child custody case involving minors "Sara Doe" and "Mary Doe"...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/22/2008 - 10:33am - 0 comments
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Date: 11/29/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Criminal Investigation
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Publication: Blog
James Buss, a high school teacher in Wisconsin, anonymously posted a comment on the Boots and Sabers blog under the name "Observer." In the comment, Buss stated that high teacher salaries made him sick and appeared to praise the Columbine...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/13/2008 - 5:10pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/11/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Publication: Blog, Website
In February 2008, Donald and Terry Keller Swartz sued three anonymous defendants for defamation and invasion of privacy in a Tennessee state court. The Swartzes are a prominent couple in Old Hickory, Tennessee, where they buy and restore real estate, manage rental...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/13/2008 - 12:41pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/21/2007
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog, Website
In November 2007, Internet Solutions Corporation and its President and Director Ayman Difrawi (a.k.a. Alec Difrawi) sued Les Henderson, Daniel Bruce Scalf, Jeremy Scalf, Conrad Longmore, and a number of anonymous defendants for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and other torts....
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/11/2008 - 11:37pm - 1 comments
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Date: 01/29/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
David Gonzales, a freelance writer who blogs on the TheBadandUgly and Read It or Don't, received an email from a "legal representative" for Irish
actor Colin Farrell alleging that a post he had written about the actor was defamatory....
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/08/2008 - 5:54pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/18/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
In January 2008, Florida property developer Tibor Hollo and his company Opera Tower, LLC, sued Lucas Lechuga, a 29-year-old Miami realtor, and Lechuga's former employer, EWM Realtors, for defamation.
According to the complaint, Lechuga published statements on his blog, "...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/05/2008 - 3:43pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/01/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Canada
Publication: Blog
In November 2006, BoingBoing reported that its Canadian-based ISP received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice from Michael Crook requesting that BoingBoing remove a screengrab of him from a Fox News channel program "Hannity and Colmes"...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/18/2008 - 2:20pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/19/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Retraction Issued, Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
In December 2007, Tony Parker sued X17, Inc., the operator of X17online.com, a celebrity news and gossip website, alleging libel and false light invasion of privacy. According to Parker's complaint, which was filed in California state court, X17 published a...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/11/2008 - 11:46am - 0 comments
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Date: 09/11/2007
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Arizona
Publication: Blog
John Carr is the former past president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). Carr operates a blog, The Main Bang, on which he often criticizes the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In two blog posts in July 2007, Carr...
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Legal Threat - Stefani Wittenauer - 01/04/2008 - 12:54pm - 3 comments
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Date: 07/25/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Denial of Access
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Publication: Blog
Elaine Hopkins, a blogger from Peoriastory.com and former newspaper reporter, sought to observe and cover a juvenile court hearing in Peoria, Illinois. After the assistant state's attorney Susan Lucas objected to Hopkins'
presence in the courtroom, Judge Albert Purham, Jr....
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/31/2007 - 10:16am - 0 comments
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Date: 06/07/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
Type: Subpoena
Jurisdiction: Idaho
Publication: Blog, Website, Other
43rd State Blues: Democracy for Idaho describes itself as a "website of, by and for Democrats and those who lean towards Democratic, progressive causes." The website offers what it calls a "team blog" service -- users who register for an...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/17/2007 - 12:42pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/11/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
On December 11, 2007, Best Buy sent a cease-and-desist letter to Scott Beale of Laughing Squid for reporting on
an "Improv Everywhere" prank and their sales of T-shirts mocking the
Best Buy logo. Best Buy claimed the post infringed its trademarks...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/13/2007 - 6:26pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/23/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Other
Jurisdiction:
Publication: Blog
A blog post on AsteroidBooty.com, an anonymous blog focused on "chronicles from outerspace, products that rock my world, and more," criticized the high price of children's books and contrasted the prices with the (asserted) easiness of writing the books. The...
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Legal Threat - Guest - 12/05/2007 - 12:41pm - 0 comments
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Date: 06/29/2007
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog, Email
In June 2007, Rachel Neuwirth, a journalist and political commentator who espouses strongly pro-Israel views, sued Washington-state blogger Richard Silverstein and university professor Joel Beinin for libel in a California state court. On November 27, 2007, the court...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/02/2007 - 12:32pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/06/2006
Status: Pending
Disposition: Verdict (plaintiff)
Type: Criminal Charge
Jurisdiction: Egypt
Publication: Blog, Website
Egyptian law student Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suliman ("Kareem"), using the psuedonym Kareem Amer, posted a series of articles critizing the Islamic faith, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Al-Azhar University to his blog and websites, Modern Discussion and Copts United. He was first...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/30/2007 - 10:09am - 0 comments
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Date: 11/14/2007
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Publication: Blog
On November 14, 2007, BESCR, a court reporting service company otherwise known as Eastwood-Stein Deposition Management, and two of its principals, sued Trisha Goodman, an Oklahoma-based court reporter, and others for statements appearing on Goodman's blog, "Let's Stop Eastwood-Stein."...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/30/2007 - 10:43am - 0 comments
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Date: 03/14/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Verdict (plaintiff)
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: Egypt
Publication: Blog
Egyptian law student Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suliman ("Kareem"), using the
psuedonym Kareem Amer, posted a series of articles critizing the
Islamic faith, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Al-Azhar
University to his blog and websites, Modern Discussion and Copts United. Some of his posts critized the...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/29/2007 - 10:08pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/21/2005
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
Jews for Jesus, an "international outreach ministry," filed a lawsuit against Google alleging trademark infringement and other claims after Google refused to remove a Blogspot URL identified as "jewsforjesus.blogspot.com." The blog's author, who wrote under the pseudonym "Whistle Blower," was apparently critical...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/29/2007 - 10:23pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/14/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Washington
Publication: Blog
Former Yakima City Councilman Ronald Bonlender filed a lawsuit claiming that his opponent's wife, Diane Ensey, anonymously defamed him and cast him in a false light on a blog.
The lawsuit alleges that Diane Ensey published entries on a blog under...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/29/2007 - 9:26pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/01/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog, Social Network
Facebook terminated the profile of Jon Swift, a blogger writing under a pseudonym, for violating its terms of use prohibition on registering a profile under a fake name. Swift wrote about the profile termination and posted the email (from Aubrey, a Facebook...
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Legal Threat - Alison Schary - 11/29/2007 - 4:56pm - 0 comments