May 19, 2013

Recent Threats Added to the CMLP Database

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Peteski Productions, Inc. v. Gawker Media, Inc.

Date: 05/06/2013	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Texas	Publication: Blog

Peteski Productions is the copyright owner of the television show the Dr. Phil Show, and Gawker Media is the owner of the sports news website Deadspin.com. This dispute concerns coverage by both Deadspin.com and the Dr. Phil Show addressing the...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/10/2013 - 8:49am - 0 comments

Tuteur v. Crosley-Corcoran

Date: 01/25/2013	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Massachusetts	Publication: Blog

On January 25, 2013, Dr. Amy Tuteur, an obstetrician-gynecologist residing in Massachusetts, filed suit in federal court against Gina Crosley-Corcoran, a resident of Illinois, based upon a dispute arising out of blogs written by each individual: The Skeptical OB, by Tuteur, and...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/13/2013 - 12:23pm - 0 comments

David v. CBS Interactive, Inc.

Date: 11/14/2011	Status: Pending	Disposition: Dismissed (partial); Injunction Denied
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: Website

On Nov. 14, 2011, a group of musicians and music companies claiming to be the legal owners of copyrighted works available for unlicensed use through various peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent clients filed suit against CBS Interactive, Inc. (CBSI) and CNET Networks,...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/29/2013 - 9:17am - 0 comments

Duffy v. Godfread

Date: 02/19/2013	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Florida; Illinois	Publication: Blog; Email; Forum

This action is closely linked to two other threats in the database: Prenda Law v. Godfread and Steele v. Godfread. Several of the related filings can be found in the database entry for Prenda Law v....

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/29/2013 - 10:41am - 0 comments

Steele v. Godfread

Date: 02/24/2013	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Florida	Publication: Blog; Email; Forum

This action is closely linked to two other threats in the database: Prenda Law v. Godfread and Duffy v. Godfread. All related filings can be found in the database entry for Prenda Law v. Godfread. Plaintiff...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/07/2013 - 4:12pm - 0 comments

Prenda Law v. Godfread

Date: 02/12/2013	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Illinois	Publication: Blog; Email; Forum

This action is closely linked to two other threats in the database: Steele v. Godfread and Duffy v. Godfread. Plaintiff Prenda Law is a law firm that has brought numerous plaintiff-side copyright cases concerning the sharing of movies...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/29/2013 - 10:49am - 0 comments

Haywood v. St. Michael’s College

Date: 07/24/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Vermont	Publication: Website

In January 2012, a professor at St. Michael's College posted a profile of John D. Haywood, a candidate for President of the United States in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, to a college-owned website. His students, Logan R. Spillane and Christopher...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/14/2013 - 5:06pm - 0 comments

Saltsman v. Goddard

Date: 10/25/2012	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Ohio	Publication: Blog

In August 2012, two football players from Steubenville High School were arrested and charged with the rape of a 16-year-old girl. Classmates circulated Twitter posts, videos, and photographs indicating that the players may have carried the girl, unconscious, from party to party...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/31/2013 - 1:19pm - 0 comments

Dietz Development LLC v. Perez

Date: 10/31/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: Injunction Issued
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Virginia	Publication: Forum

Dietz Development is a construction contractor based in Washington, DC. According to the complaint, Jane Perez, a high school classmate of Dietz Development owner Christopher Dietz, hired Dietz Development to do work on Perez's home. Disagreements arose over the nature...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/02/2013 - 4:20pm - 0 comments

AF Holdings LLC v. Doe

Date: 04/24/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: ; Other

On April 24, 2012, AF Holdings LLC filed a complaint against a John Doe defendant as well as individual defendant Josh Hatfield in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, arising out of the alleged distribution via...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/17/2013 - 12:05pm - 0 comments

Directory Assistants, Inc. v. SuperMedia, LLC

Date: 08/26/2011	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Virginia	Publication: Email; Website

On August 26, 2011, Directory Assistants, Inc., a Connecticut-based advertising consulting agency, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against advertising company SuperMedia, LLC, and three of its employees. The claims, which sound...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/16/2012 - 1:28pm - 0 comments

Seaton v. TripAdvisor, LLC

Date: 10/11/2011	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Tennessee	Publication: Website

In January 2011, TripAdvisor, operator of the travel review website http://www.tripadvisor.com, published a list entitled "Dirtiest Hotels, as reported by travelers on TripAdvisor," which purported to be a list of the dirtiest hotels in the United States. Grand Resort Hotel...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/20/2013 - 1:29pm - 0 comments

Garcia v. Nakoula

Date: 09/18/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: Social Network

This case concerns the "Innocence of Muslims" video, which portrays the Prophet Muhammad in a highly offensive light and caused protests throughout the world in the fall of 2012. Cindy Lee Garcia was an actress who appeared in the film....

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/03/2013 - 12:00pm - 0 comments

New York County v. Twitter, Inc. (subpoena)

Date: 01/26/2012	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
Type: Subpoena	Location: New York	Publication: Micro-blog

Malcolm Harris is one of hundreds of protesters charged with disorderly conduct after the Occupy Wall Street protest march across the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011. In the course of this investigation, on January 26, 2012, the New York County District Attorney...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/07/2013 - 10:54am - 0 comments

Backpage.com v. McKenna, et al.

Date: 06/04/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Legislation	Location: Washington	Publication:

On March 29, 2012, Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire signed Washington Senate Bill No. 6251 ("SB 6251") into law. SB 6251 defines the felony offense of "advertising commercial sexual abuse of a minor," which a person commits if he or...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/12/2012 - 1:29pm - 0 comments

Filler, et al. v. Walker, et al.

Date: 05/31/2011	Status: Pending	Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: Forum

Dr. Aaron Filler filed a complaint against former patient Susan Walker in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 31, 2011. In his complaint, Filler alleged defamation and interference with prospective economic advantage in response to Walker's review of Dr. Filler on a...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/01/2012 - 1:14pm - 0 comments

Nilan v. Valenti

Date: 06/22/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: Injunction Denied
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Massachusetts	Publication: Blog

According to a police report, on December 8, 2011, Meredith Nilan, the 24-year-old daughter of the Chief of Probation at Berkshire Superior Court, was involved in a car accident. While driving home from a social gathering, Nilan allegedly...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/26/2012 - 9:49am - 0 comments

Suffolk County District Attorney's Office v. Twitter, Inc. (subpoena)

Date: 12/14/2011	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
Type: Subpoena	Location: Massachusetts	Publication: Micro-blog

On December 14, 2011, as part of a criminal investigation conducted by the District Attorney of Suffolk County and the Boston Police Department, the District Attorney issued an administrative subpoena under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 271, Section 17B and...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/24/2012 - 10:18am - 0 comments

Charles Carreon v. Matthew Inman, et al.

Date: 06/15/2012	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: Website

Charles Carreon is an attorney, who was retained by FunnyJunk, LLC, on matters related to the website FunnyJunk.com. On June 2, 2012, Carreon sent a letter on behalf of FunnyJunk to Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, which threatened legal action and demanded...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/20/2012 - 2:57pm - 0 comments

FunnyJunk, LLC vs. TheOatmeal.com

Date: 06/02/2012	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Correspondence	Location: Washington	Publication: Blog

On June 2, 2012, attorney Charles Carreon sent a letter on behalf of FunnyJunk, LLC ("FunnyJunk") to Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, which threatened legal action on the basis of a May 2011 blog post by Inman titled "...

Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/20/2012 - 2:57pm - 0 comments

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Recent Threats Added to the CMLP Database

Peteski Productions, Inc. v. Gawker Media, Inc.

Tuteur v. Crosley-Corcoran

David v. CBS Interactive, Inc.

Duffy v. Godfread

Steele v. Godfread

Prenda Law v. Godfread

Haywood v. St. Michael’s College

Saltsman v. Goddard

Dietz Development LLC v. Perez

AF Holdings LLC v. Doe

Directory Assistants, Inc. v. SuperMedia, LLC

Seaton v. TripAdvisor, LLC

Garcia v. Nakoula

New York County v. Twitter, Inc. (subpoena)

Backpage.com v. McKenna, et al.

Filler, et al. v. Walker, et al.

Nilan v. Valenti

Suffolk County District Attorney's Office v. Twitter, Inc. (subpoena)

Charles Carreon v. Matthew Inman, et al.

FunnyJunk, LLC vs. TheOatmeal.com

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