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Date: 12/22/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Issued, Material Removed, Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Website
Nevada attorney Samuel A. Harding filed a defamation and
cybersquatting lawsuit against Joan L. Green after Green allegedly
created a website critical of Harding at www.attorneysamharding.com.
Harding alleged that Green's site "falsely states that Plaintiff
committed illegal and criminal acts in the representation of clients."...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/26/2009 - 5:14pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/08/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Issued, Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Publication: Email, Print, Website
After their son was expelled from the Hargrave Military Academy for stealing, Jerry and Melissa Guyles wrote a letter to other parents of Hargrave students, discussing their son's expulsion and their interactions with the administration, and expressing their view that the director...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/08/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Website
On February 8, 2010, Jonathon Harris, a rare coin dealer, filed a lawsuit against Google, Inc. in Florida state court. According to the complaint, a Google Phonebook search for rare coins returned his home address and a map to his home, rather...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/19/2010 - 12:53pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/12/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Convicted
Type: Criminal Charge
Jurisdiction: Hawaii
Publication: Social Network
The state of Hawaii indicted Rhonda Wong-Fernandez, a former clerical assistant, on the charge of unauthorized computer access in the first degree after she allegedly accessed a female patient's medical records and posted on a MySpace page that the patient had HIV.
The...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/07/2009 - 5:51pm - 0 comments
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Date: 07/24/2012
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: 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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/14/2013 - 5:06pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/29/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed, Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Publication: Blog
On his blog, "Miscellaneous Debris," Jerry Baker accused Health Solutions Network, LLC, of being behind spam emails coming from RXCart.org. Baker explained how he supposedly traced the emails back to Health Solutions and disclosed the name and phone number...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/20/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Publication: Other
Johnny I. Henry, an inventor of the vibrating toilet seat, filed a lawsuit against Google, Inc. and AOL, claiming that search results delivered by Google and hosted by AOL are defamatory. Henry, who is African-American, asserts that Google's search results include links...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/28/2009 - 5:33pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/29/2012
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Default Judgment, Injunction Issued
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Website
On March 6, 2012, Hermès International and its subsidiary Hermès of Paris filed a complaint (which had been prepared for February 29, 2012) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against 34 websites that...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/12/2012 - 11:10am - 0 comments
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Date: 12/21/2005
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Publication: Social Network
In December 2005, high school student Justin Layshock posted a fake MySpace page parodying his high school principal, Eric Trosch. Layshock posted a picture of Trosch and answered the questions asked by the site's profile template by riffing on the word "big"...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 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: 02/25/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Publication: Forum
On March 13, 2008, Higher Balance Institute (HBI), which markets metaphysical products and education programs, filed a defamation lawsuit against the alternative news website Signs of the Times and its operators, the Quantum Future Group and Laura Knight-Jadczyk. Only Quantum Future...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/18/2008 - 12:09pm - 0 comments
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Date: 07/29/2004
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Subpoena Quashed, Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California, Massachusetts
Publication: Forum
Highfields Capital Management sued an anonymous user of a Yahoo! forum about the company Silicon Graphics, Inc. ("SGI"), of which Highfields was the largest shareholder. Using the name "highfieldscapital," the user posted three messages allegedly suggesting that Highfields...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/29/2008 - 1:30pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/09/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Publication: Social Network
Brian Pietrylo and Doreen Marino filed a lawsuit against their former employer, Hillstone Restaurant Group d/b/a Houston's, following their termination for posting comments critical of the company on a private MySpace page.
According to court documents, Pietrylo "setup a private group on...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/13/2009 - 6:40pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/29/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Issued, Settled (partial), Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Website
Paris Hilton sued Bardia Persa, Nabil Haniss, Nabila Haniss, and a number of anonymous defendants in January 2007 for copyright infringement, publication of private facts, and misapproriation of her right of publicity. The case revolved around a website, ...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/21/2008 - 5:45pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/25/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts, Vermont
Publication: Blog
Lawyers from the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), a health care industry trade group, sent letters to two bloggers demanding that they remove allegedly offensive and defamatory user comments, provide any information that may help in...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/19/2009 - 12:33pm - 0 comments
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Date: 10/13/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Washington
Publication: Website
Junie Hoang, the stage name of Asian actress Huong Huang, filed an anonymous "Jane Doe" complaint in the Western District of Washington against the Internet Movie Database website, IMDb.com, and its parent company, Amazon.com, on October 13, 2011.
Hoang, who...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/06/2012 - 3:50pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/25/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (total), Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Publication: Verbal, Website
Terry Hobbs sued Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines and her band mates in Arkansas state court for defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress after Maines published a open letter on the band's website and MySpace...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/20/2009 - 6:05pm - 0 comments
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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,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/06/2007 - 11:49pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/31/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Publication: Forum
Todd Hollis objected to the description posted about him on DontDateHimGirl.com, a website that allows women to post about men and warn other women about them. Mr. Hollis sued Tasha Joseph/Cunningham, the operator of the website, alleging defamation in Pennsylvania state court,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 4:16pm - 0 comments