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Date: 02/11/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Publication: Blog, Micro-blog, Website
On February 11, 2011, former United States Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod filed in District of Columbia Superior Court a defamation lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart and Larry O'Connor, two individuals involved with the prominent conservative political blog BigGovernment.com. The complaint also...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/21/2011 - 5:11pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/11/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog, Email, Print
In March 2011, Joseph Rakofsky represented a defendant in a murder trial in Washington, D.C. According to court filings, on April 1 he withdrew as counsel, leading to a mistrial, at which time the presiding judge made a number of unflattering statements...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/04/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction:
Publication: Blog, Website
The letter sent from Wrink a Bull Kennels is a Cease and Desist order for what she calls malicious and comments that are slander.All of the comments made on the BLOG and to the Department are accurate and supported by medical documentation....
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Legal Threat - Guest - 03/04/2011 - 1:52pm - 0 comments
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Date: 10/06/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Blog
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas
Review-Journal owner
Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement
lawsuit against Bill Hyatt, a New York blogger. Righthaven alleged that Hyatt copied an article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal without permission...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/24/2011 - 11:48am - 0 comments
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Date: 12/17/2010
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Publication: Blog, Forum, Website
Virginia Psychologist Ronald S. Federici is suing multiple parties from multiple states (Florida, New Jersey, Nebraska, Colorado) for defamation, conspiracy, and tortious interference. Defendants are authors of blogs, forum comments, and websites that were critical of his writings and practices. Plaintiff has...
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Legal Threat - Guest - 01/05/2011 - 1:28pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/20/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition: Injunction Issued
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
The current lawsuit was filed in NY on Dec 13 2010, and Hindle filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The court returned the motion claiming it had been improperly filed and issued a default judgment on December 20,...
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Legal Threat - Guest - 01/03/2011 - 9:59am - 0 comments
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Date: 04/20/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Publication: Blog
In April 2010, Thomas S. Hester, Jr., a former Vance County commissioner running for reelection, sued 20 John Does for defamation in North Carolina Superior Court over comments appearing on the Home in Henderson blog. The comments in question were...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/09/2010 - 2:32pm - 0 comments
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Date: 04/08/2010
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
Type: Subpoena
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Publication: Blog
On April 8, 2010, attorneys for former Vance County commissioner Thomas S. Hester, Jr. served a subpoena on Jason A. Feingold, editor of the Home in Henderson blog, commanding him to appear for a deposition and to turn over identifying...
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Legal Threat - Marina Petrova - 07/09/2010 - 2:25pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/14/2010
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Publication: Blog
On May 14, 2010, Princeton University Archivist and Curator of Public Policy Papers, Daniel J. Linke, sent an email to RedState, a right-of-center blog, requesting that RedState remove a copy of Elena Kagan's undergraduate thesis from their...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/18/2010 - 3:32pm - 0 comments
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Date: 09/22/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Publication: Blog
In September and October 2009, Aldo Cipriani, Town Counsel for Southborough, MA, exchanged letters with Susan Fitzgerald, publisher of MySouthborough.com, a blog dedicated to local politics. Cipriani's letters requested that Fitzgerald turn over the identity of a commenter going by...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/21/2010 - 6:14pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/29/2009
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
Palm Coast Travel sued travel journalist Chris Elliott after he reported Elliott.org that Florida regulators had warned three travel insurance agencies, including Palm Coast, that offering policies from bankrupt Prime TravelProtection Services might violate state law. The complaint includes claims for...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/30/2010 - 12:35pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/04/2010
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Alaska
Publication: Blog
On March 4, 2010, a lawyer representing Williams-Sonoma, Inc. sent a demand letter to Ana White, a rural Alaskan housewife and publisher of Knock Off Wood, a blog that teaches readers how to build designer-looking furniture at home. ...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/15/2010 - 6:19pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/05/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Publication: Blog
In March 2010, Latosha Lee sued celebrity gossip blog Young, Black, and Fabulous and its author in Georgia state court. The complaint alleges that blogger Natasha Eubanks defamed Lee by calling her "Shaq's stripper mistress," when in fact...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/15/2010 - 5:02pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/01/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition: Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Publication: Blog
Global Wildlife Center, a wildlife preserve in Folsom, Louisiana, sued Nicholas Brilleaux, publisher of the Hammond Action News blog, after he published a satirical article about a fake giraffe attack at the preserve. Hammond Action News publishes Onion-style...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/15/2010 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/22/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Denial of Access
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Publication: Blog
Blogger Jay Liner of the Baltimore Organ sought a press pass to cover the Maryland state legislature, but was denied. He then filed a lawsuit, claiming that the denial violated his First Amendment rights.
Liner, a former Baltimore County Attorney who...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/10/2010 - 1:39pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/06/2009
Status:
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
On August 6, 2009, the Office of General Counsel at UCLA sent Tom Wilde a cease and desist letter alleging that his website, Weeding 101 at UCLA, infringed and diluted the University's registered trademark in the letters "UCLA" and that use of the...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/04/2010 - 6:55pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/12/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
On December 12, 2009, Matthew Brian Proman and NAPW, Inc. (d/b/a National Association of Professional Women) sued Google, Inc. and 10 John Doe defendants in New York state court, asserting claims for "misappropriation of Plaintiffs' names for trade and advertising purposes" and...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/25/2010 - 3:41pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/11/2009
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
In March 2009, MagicJack, LP, the maker of an Internet telephone device and subscription service, sued the parent company of Boing Boing over a blog post by Rob Beschizza criticizing MagicJack's End-User Licensing Agreement (EULA) and various aspects of its...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/23/2010 - 4:34pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/01/2010
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction:
Publication: Blog
In late January 2010, iStockphoto sent a DMCA takedown notice to Tumblr, requesting that it to take down photos hosted on Awkward Stock Photos, a Tumblr blog of funny stock photo images found by users on...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/16/2010 - 7:04pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/01/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
On February 1, 2010, counsel for Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff sent a demand letter to blogger Tom Falco, who publishes the Coconut Grove Grapevine. The letter claimed that an anonymous comment to the site was false and defamatory. The...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/16/2010 - 6:28pm - 0 comments