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Date: 02/27/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Publication: Blog
Katherine Coble posted information on her blog relating to her husband's personal experience with JL Kirk Associates, a job placement company. In the posting, Coble criticized the company's "interview process" and made other statements about the company and its recruitment tactics. A...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
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Date: 09/01/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Subpoena
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Publication: Blog
On September 1, 2011, Johns-Byrne Company filed a Rule 224 action in Illinois state court. Rule 224 allows a party to conduct limited discovery, before filing a lawsuit, in order to determine the identity of the party that allegedly caused...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/01/2012 - 11:31am - 0 comments
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Date: 03/01/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Settled (partial), Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Publication: Email, Forum
Roslyn Johnson, former Deputy Director of the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation, sued Jonetta Rose Barras, Talk Media Communications, government watchdog website DCWatch, two DCWatch executives, and The District of Columbia, after DC Watch published in its electronic newsletter...
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Legal Threat - Arthur Bright - 07/30/2008 - 2:07pm - 0 comments
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Date: 06/26/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Default Judgment, Dismissed (total), Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Publication: Forum
Susan and Robert Johnson, owners of Cozy Kittens Cattery, LLC, sued consumer review site ComplaintsBoard.com, its (alleged) publishers Elizabeth Arden and Michelle Reitenger, and two ComplaintsBoard users who commented on a complaint thread about Susan Johnson and her cat breeding...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/15/2009 - 12:24pm - 0 comments
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Date: 05/02/2003
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Issued, Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
Tucker Max maintains a website detailing his sexual exploits with women. He had a relationship with former Miss Vermont, Katy Johnson, and put the entire story on his website under the title, the "Miss Vermont Story."
Johnson sued Max in...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/12/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Publication: Website
Founded in 2006, BlockShopper.com is a start-up local online real estate news service covering Chicago, South Florida, Las Vegas, and St. Louis.
Its reporting staff is made up of ex-print journalists who collect public real estate sales data, then use...
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Legal Threat - Guest - 09/06/2008 - 2:16pm - 0 comments
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Date: 10/27/2009
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
In October 2009, Donald Marvin Jones,
a
law professor at the University of Miami School of Law, sued David Lat
and David Minkin, editor and publisher of the popular law gossip blog Above the Law (ATL),
as well as ATL's parent company,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/04/2009 - 5:30pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/23/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Publication: Blog
On December 23, 2009, a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in federal court. The plaintiff intended to sue TheDirty.com, alleging that a number of posts on the blog (self-described as a "reality blogger . . . all about gossip...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/13/2012 - 9:09am - 0 comments
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Date: 04/01/2001
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Publication: Broadcast, Website
Tennessee businessman Clark Jones sued WorldNetDaily.com, a socially conservative news and opinion website, and freelance reporters Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays for defamation in Tennessee state court, after WorldNetDaily.com published an article written by Thompson and Hays claiming that Jones...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/13/2008 - 9:52am - 0 comments
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Date: 09/26/2005
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Forum, Website
Jeffrey Joyner, a California soccer coach, sued Jerry Lazzareschi, the operator of the forum Soccertalk.com, and his domain registrar Domains by Proxy, Inc., after a number of allegedly false and defamatory statements about Joyner appeared on Lazzareschi's forum site.
Joyner coached two...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/22/2009 - 10:34am - 0 comments
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Date: 12/31/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Other
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Blog
David O. Markus, an attorney who writes the Southern District of Florida Blog, was silenced by a gag order issued by Judge Joan Lenard of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in connection with the...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/17/2008 - 5:16pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/06/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued, Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Wiki
On February 6, 2008, Julius Baer Bank and Trust Company, a Cayman Islands banking entity, filed suit in federal court in California against Wikileaks, which is developing an "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis." ...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/18/2008 - 4:22pm - 0 comments
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Date: 10/25/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Website
Fight for the Future is an
advocacy organization focusing on free speech and consumer rights issues
related to intellectual property and technology. The organization is
opposed to Senate
Bill S.978, introduced in May 2011, which alters the criminal
penalties for copyright...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 10/31/2011 - 3:04pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/10/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Criminal Investigation
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Publication: Website
On December 10, 2007, an investigator with the Kansas University Office of Public Safety delivered a search warrant to the Lawrence Journal-World, a highly regarded newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, demanding access to the newspaper’s computer servers. The search warrant, issued...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/09/2008 - 12:12pm - 0 comments
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Date: 09/12/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Verdict (plaintiff)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog
Lee Kaplan, a freelance journalist and columnist for FrontPageMag.com, sued Yaman Salahi, a student blogger at the University of California at Berkeley, in small claims court for libel and interfering with business relations.
Salahi's blog, Lee Kaplan Watch, monitored and...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/26/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Publication: Blog
A lawyer for Denver Nuggets coach George Karl has threatened blogger
Andrew Feinstein with legal action if he crosses "the boundaries of permissible speech." Feinstein, a
frustrated Nuggets fan, created a blog called Fire George Karl,
lamenting what he sees as a series...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/06/2008 - 9:46am - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/17/2007 - 12:20pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/17/2007 - 5:37pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/01/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Forum
Leo Kehoe, a Queens accountant, sued Craigslist, Inc. in New York state court after an anonymous individual posted ads on Craigslist calling him a "crook" and a "fraudulent scumbag." Kehoe also sued the anonymous poster. According to Gothamist,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/23/2010 - 6:44pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/18/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Publication: Website
In August 2008, Keith Goodridge sued WYBS, Inc., owner of the site www.merchantcircle.com, and a John Doe using the screen name "Attorney" over allegedly defamatory comments posted to the site. According to the complaint, a posting from June 4, 2008...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/17/2009 - 5:44pm - 0 comments