Defendant fields? [1]

These fields describe the type of parties involved in the legal threat. If more than one type is involved (either because there are multiple parties or because one party meets multiple descriptions), you may select multiple options by holding the CTRL key (or Command key, for Macs) while you click.

The choices for this field are:

Individual

Describes a person operating in his or her individual capacity.

Organization

Describes a business or group of individuals acting as an organization. This includes businesses,corporations, LLCs, nonprofits, unions, and any other organized groups.

Large Organization

Describes an organization that is well known or has more than 500 employees (e.g., General Motors, Google, RIAA). It make take some research to determine whether an organization should qualify as a large organization. However, a good rule of thumb is that if you can't figure out whether or not an organization is large enough fits this category, it is more likely that it is not.

Government

Describes government entities of both the United States and foreign nations. This tag is often used in criminal cases or instances of international censorship.

Intermediary

Describes a participant who is involved only because it provides a service to the real party in interest. An internet service provider (ISP), for example, might receive a subpoena or a letter request to disclose the identity of an anonymous blogger, and the ISP in that case would be an "Intermediary." Note, however, that plaintiffs often file "John Doe" lawsuits against an anonymous defendant, and then seek as part of the discovery process to serve a subpoena on the anonymous defendant's ISP. In that case, the threat is a lawsuit, and the receiving/defending party is the anonymous defendant, not the ISP. Therefore, the proper way to enter the threat would be "John Doe" for "Receiving/Defending Party" and "Individual" for "Type of Receiving/Defending Party." The ISP/Intermediary would be mentioned in the description.

Media Company

Describes only extremely large and well-known content creators (e.g., Viacom, CNN, the New York Times, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, etc.). All other types of journalistic or content-producing organizations should be tagged as "Organizations" or "Large Organizations" as appropriate.

School

This category includes all educational institutions, such as elementary schools, high schools,universities and graduate programs.

Not Sure

Choose this option if none of the others fit or if you aren't sure which one is appropriate.