Lawsuits Involving Forum Posts and User Comments

This page lists all lawsuits in the DMLP database that involve blogs. The most recent lawsuits are listed first

  • Freecycle Network v. Oey
    Date: 04/04/2006
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Injunction Issued
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Arizona
    Publication: Forum
    The Freecycle Network (TFN) is a nonprofit corporation that acts as a central administrative point for local recycling communities around the United States and operates a website at www.freecycle.org. It had been operating under this name since 2003, and in 2004 submitted... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/15/2008 - 2:37pm - 0 comments
  • Energy Automation Systems v. Xcentric Ventures
    Date: 11/06/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Tennessee
    Publication: Forum
    Xcentric Ventures, LLC, operates the Bad Business Bureau, which provides a forum in which consumers may accuse companies and individuals of various "rip-off" and "bad business" practices. This forum is located on a website that may be accessed through either of two... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/11/2008 - 11:49am - 0 comments
  • Eagle Broadband v. Mould
    Date: 10/05/2005
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Forum
    In October 2005, Eagle Broadband, Inc. brought a John Doe lawsuit for defamation, trade libel, and unfair competition under California law after anonymous users posted critical statements about it on a Yahoo! Finance message board. Shortly thereafter, the court granted... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/18/2007 - 10:38am - 0 comments
  • WRNN-TV v. Does
    Date: 12/01/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Connecticut
    Publication: Forum, Website
    An anonymous Internet user ("webmaster") created the website "RNN Sucks" and a related Yahoo! message board in order to critize New York television station WRNN-TV. A number of anonymous posters used the message board to criticize WRNN. WRNN filed suit against Yahoo!... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/13/2007 - 6:18pm - 0 comments
  • Hollis v. Cunningham
    Date: 11/29/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Forum
    Todd Hollis objected to the information users posted about him on DontDateHimGirl.com, a website that allows women to post about men and warn other women about them. In May 2006, Mr. Hollis sued Tasha Joseph/Cunningham, the operator of the website,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/06/2007 - 11:49pm - 0 comments
  • Best Van Lines v. Walker
    Date: 08/29/2003
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Forum
    Best Van Lines sued Tim Walker, an Iowa resident, for defamation in federal District Court in New York. According to an appellate decision in the case, Walker posted comments about Best Van Lines on his website, MovingScam.com, asserting that the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/05/2007 - 10:19pm - 0 comments
  • Dendrite International v. Does
    Date: 05/24/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New Jersey
    Publication: Forum
    Dendrite International, a company that developed and serviced software for the pharmaceutical industry, brought a John Doe lawsuit in New Jersey state court against fourteen unnamed defendants for critical messages they posted on Yahoo! message boards. Dendrite claimed the messages were defamatory... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/05/2007 - 9:49pm - 0 comments
  • 2TheMart.com v. Doe
    Date: 01/24/2001
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Washington
    Publication: Forum
    2TheMart.com, Inc. was in the process of defending itself against a class-action lawsuit alleging that it misled investors. In doing so, the company claimed that it needed the identities of 23 Internet users who had posted comments on the Silicon Investor... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/29/2007 - 10:03pm - 0 comments
  • Ubisoft v. Kyanka
    Date: 11/15/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Missouri
    Publication: Forum
    Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka is the webmaster of SomethingAwful, an online community forum with the catch phrase: "The Internet Makes You Stupid." A member of the community posted a link on the forum to a comic that depicted Jade Raymond engaged in... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/29/2007 - 10:37pm - 2 comments
  • Parker v. Google
    Date: 08/18/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum, Website
    Gordon Parker sued Google in federal court in Pennsylvania in August 2004. According to court documents, Parker claimed that he published a website, "29 Reasons Not to be a Nice Guy." He alleged that an unknown Internet user copied Reason #6 and... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/29/2007 - 9:17pm - 0 comments
  • Global Telemedia International v. Does 1-4
    Date: 11/22/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Forum
    Global Telemedia International (GTMI), a publicly traded telecommunications company, sued a number of anonymous users who posted negative comments about the firm and its officers on the financial message board Raging Bull, alleging that the posts constituted trade libel and libel... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/19/2007 - 7:54pm - 0 comments
  • Kavakich v. Chavla (Subpoena)
    Date: 04/20/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    Terri and Munir Chavla, operators of a community forum called LocalScoop.net, along with three anonymous users of the site sued Mark Kavakich, the local chief of police, after Kavakich sent them a subpoena seeking the identities of users of the site. According... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/17/2007 - 5:37pm - 0 comments
  • Kavakich v. Chavla
    Date: 04/20/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    Terri and Munir Chavla, operators of a community forum called LocalScoop.net, along with three anonymous users of the site sued Mark Kavakich, the local chief of police. According to the lawsuit, Kavakich posted messages on the site threatening to uncover the identities... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/17/2007 - 12:20pm - 0 comments
  • Children of America, Inc. v. Magedson
    Date: 03/05/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Arizona
    Publication: Forum
    In March 2007, Children of America, Inc., a childcare provider, sued Ed Magedson and Xcentric Ventures, LLC, the owners and operators of the Ripoff Report website, for defamation in Arizona state court. Ripoff Report is a consumer reporting website that invites consumers... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/15/2007 - 2:54pm - 0 comments
  • Lackner v. Sanchez
    Date: 08/30/2005
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    Robert Sanchez lost an election for City Commissioner in Brownsville, Texas, but kept the forum on his campaign website active after the election. On that forum, users posted allegedly libelous material about Carolyn Lackner Baird, a jewelry store owner connected to Sanchez's... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/12/2007 - 11:55am - 0 comments
  • Video Professor v. Justin Leonard
    Date: 07/11/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Nevada
    Publication: Forum
    Justin Leonard runs the websites infomercialratings.com and infomercialscams.com. These websites give consumers the opportunity to voice their criticisms and defenses of various products and services. Pages on these websites are devoted to criticisms and defenses of Video... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/29/2007 - 4:44pm - 0 comments
  • Warman v. Beaumont
    Date: 01/06/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Verdict (plaintiff)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Canada
    Publication: Forum
    Over a two-year period, Jessica Beaumont wrote and published over 1000 posts on a white supremacist forum called Stormfront White Nationalist Community, using the pseudonym "Jessy Destruction." Here are some illustrations of her alleged postings: Regarding blacks moving to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/29/2007 - 9:44am - 0 comments
  • Warman v. Fournier
    Date: 09/10/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Canada
    Publication: Forum, Website
    Richard Warman is a Canadian human rights lawyer based in Ottawa. Formerly with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Warman is best known for initiating human rights complaints against members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements for engaging in hate speech on the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/28/2007 - 10:18pm - 0 comments
  • Video Professor v. Does
    Date: 08/16/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Colorado
    Publication: Forum
    Justin Leonard runs the websites infomercialratings.com and infomercialscams.com. These websites give users of infomerical products the opportunity to voice their criticisms and defenses of these products and associated sales tactics. Pages on these websites are devoted to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/26/2007 - 10:01am - 0 comments
  • OMDA Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Porcari
    Date: 03/01/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    OMDA Oil & Gas sued Arthur J. Porcari after he posted comments on private investor boards including the Yahoo! OMDA Investor Chat Board. In June 2004, Porcari, a large stockholder of publicly traded shares in OMDA, told the Chairman of OMDA Adam... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/25/2007 - 9:13am - 0 comments

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