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Date: 05/24/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Subpoena
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
Rabbi Mordechai Tendler requested subpoenas in Ohio state court to force Google to uncover the identities of the writers of four blogs - Jewish Whistleblower, Jewish Survivors of Sexual Violence Speak Out, New Hempstead News, and...
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Legal Threat - Arthur Bright - 07/30/2008 - 1:33pm - 0 comments
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Date: 07/01/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Publication: Blog
George Lilly, a Republican candidate for Colorado's First Congressional District, threatened legal action against Anthony Surace's blog, Rocky Mountain Right, unless Surace removed a post where Surace endorsed Lilly's primary opponent and criticized Lilly for being a possible detriment to...
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Legal Threat - Arthur Bright - 07/22/2008 - 11:00am - 0 comments
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Date: 01/10/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Denial of Access
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
On January 10, 2007, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) notified Leonard Levitt, a journalist and blogger who operates
NYPD Confidential, that it would not renew his press credentials.
Before this denial, Levitt had held NYPD press credentials for...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/18/2008 - 5:46pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/23/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Subpoena
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson issued a grand jury subpoena to New York political blog Room Eight seeking identifying information for several anonymous bloggers and commentors. The subpoena ordered Room Eight operators Gur Tsabar and Ben Smith not to disclose...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/17/2008 - 4:48pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/10/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Arizona
Publication: Blog, Email, Social Network, Website, Wiki
Jan Kruska sued several anti-pedophile organizations, including Perverted Justice Foundation, Inc. ("PJFI"), and individuals affliliated with those organizations, as well as domain registrar GoDaddy.com and social networking site MySpace.com, after the organizations accused Kruska of being...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/16/2008 - 12:21pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/03/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Denied, Settled (partial), Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Arizona
Publication: Blog
Tucson Greyhound Park (TGP) filed a defamation suit against blogger Karyn Zoldan after she criticized its treatment of racing dogs. TGP took issue with Zoldan's postings on End Tucson Greyhound Racing, including statements that tens of thousands of dogs had...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/03/2008 - 2:02pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/27/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total), Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Publication: Blog
Linda Ramsey and Erin Knox, Ramsey's daughter, sued Cindie Harman for stalking in North Carolina state court after Harman wrote on her blog, Bonifide, that Knox was a "bully" and "the reason kids hate to go to school," according...
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Legal Threat - Arthur Bright - 07/01/2008 - 1:49pm - 2 comments
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Date: 10/08/2007
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Publication: Blog, Website
On October 8th, 2007, Quixtar Inc., a sister company of Amway Corp., sued thirty “John Does” for anonymous posts they made on blogs focused on Quixtar including freetheibo.com, theiborebellion.blogspot.com, and quixtarlostmycents.blogspot.com, and for anonymous...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/25/2008 - 5:04pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/11/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: Reservation
Publication: Blog, Website
In May 2007, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians banished Robert Port from the tribe's lands for publishing an article, "The Appalling State of North Dakota Indian Reservations," on the Dakota Beacon website and on his own...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/20/2008 - 1:00pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/07/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Texas, Arkansas
Publication: Blog
Rick Frenkel authors the Patent Troll Tracker blog, where he comments on lawsuits that in his view abuse the patent system. John Ward, Jr., a patent lawyer practicing in Texas, sued Frenkel and his employer, Cisco Systems,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/19/2008 - 5:07pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/31/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Convicted
Type: Criminal Charge
Jurisdiction: Singapore
Publication: Blog, Email
Gopalan Nair, a U.S. citizen who blogs from Fremont, California, was arrested in Singapore for publishing insulting comments on his blog, Singapore Dissident, and in an email about two Singaporean judges.
In May 2008, Nair, a former Singapore lawyer, attended a...
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Legal Threat - Arthur Bright - 06/18/2008 - 4:46pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/14/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed, Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
Since March 2007, The Central Coast Housing Bubble Blog published publicly available information about the legal and financial problems home builders and their financiers were having during the the Housing Bust. This included bankruptcies, foreclosures and civil disputes.
A post published...
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Legal Threat - Guest - 06/18/2008 - 12:23am - 1 comments
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Date: 06/10/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
On June 10, 2008, the Associated Press ("AP") sent a takedown request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Rogers Cadenhead, the founder of Drudge Retort, a liberal alternative to (and parody of) the well-known ...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/16/2008 - 6:04pm - 0 comments
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Date: 06/01/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
Publication: Blog, Website
Representatives of rock band Metallica demanded that websites and blogs take down reviews of unreleased songs from the band's forthcoming album. The band's management had played six songs from the album for a group of U.K. music journalists and bloggers, including writers...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/13/2008 - 10:17am - 0 comments
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Date: 03/28/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
Dealbreaker.com, a website that describes itself as "an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip site," received a letter from counsel for Solengo Capital, a hedge
fund founded by former Amaranth Advisors traders, asserting that Dealbreaker's posting...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/06/2008 - 5:14pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/30/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued, Material Removed, Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
Dealbreaker.com, a website that describes itself as "an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip site," was sued for copyright infringement by Solengo Capital, a hedge
fund founded by former Amaranth Advisors traders, over Dealbreaker's posting of Solengo's...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/06/2008 - 4:31pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/15/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Publication: Blog
Loretta DiAnne Cruse, a former special-ed teacher at Norfolk Elementary School in Arkansas, sued the Teacher Smackdown website, 451 Press, LLC, which operates the website, and various individuals associated with it, including professional blogger Anne-Marie Nichols, for defamation and other...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/06/2008 - 4:04pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/23/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Publication: Blog
Salisbury, Maryland Police Chief Allan Webster filed a lawsuit against local blogger Joe Albero, who operates the Salisbury News blog, wich covers matters of local interest in Salisbury and Wicomico County. Albero, who often takes local politicians to task, criticized...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/30/2008 - 11:23am - 0 comments
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Date: 04/17/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Publication: Blog
The Washington Post reportedly fired staffer Michael Tunison over profane blog posts on NFL humor blog Kissing Suzy Kolber. Tunison was a regular poster to the blog under the pseudonym "Christmas Ape," and the disciplinary action came...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/22/2008 - 7:28pm - 0 comments
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Date: 10/20/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Israel
Publication: Blog
Warner Bros. Records sent a cease and desist letter (via Blogger) to Music2Nite,
a music blog that had posted materials related to recording artist
Madonna. The demand letter not only specified that the blog owner
remove a specific post -- Music2Nite primarily...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/22/2008 - 6:56pm - 0 comments