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Date: 06/12/2000
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Texas
Publication: Forum, Print
Oliver "Buck" Revell, former associate deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, filed a defamation lawsuit against medical professor Hart G.W. Lidov and Columbia University after Lidov wrote and posted an article critizing Revell on the Columbia Journalism Review's...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/05/2008 - 4:38pm - 0 comments
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Date: 02/16/2005
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: North Dakota
Publication: Website
Edward Falk operates a spam watchdog website. On his website, Falk indicated that Jerry Reynolds was associated with a number of spamming companies and pornographic websites. Falk also allegedly stated that Reynolds engaged in a pyramid scam and other illegal or dishonest...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/25/2004
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Website
Edward Falk operates a spam watchdog website, the "Spam Tracking Page." On the website, Falk indicated that Jerry Reynolds was associated with a number of spamming companies and pornographic websites.
On August 24, 2004, Reynolds's lawyer sent Falk a cease-and-desist letter, threatening...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/25/2007 - 8:00pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/17/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition:
Type: Other
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Publication: Blog
Anne Grant maintains a blog, The Custody Scam, where she "writes about official actions that endanger children and parents trying to protect them." Grant used the blog to write about a child custody case involving minors "Sara Doe" and "Mary Doe"...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/22/2008 - 10:33am - 0 comments
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Date: 10/15/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Wyoming
Publication: Blog
In October 2007, Jonathan Lee Riches, a federal inmate incarcerated in South Carolina, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Wyoming against celebrity blogger Mario Lavandeira. Riches has gained notoriety for bringing bizarre lawsuits (The Smoking Gun has coverage here...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/15/2008 - 2:15pm - 0 comments
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Date: 04/13/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Publication: Social Network
James Ricobene filed suit against JP Morgan Chase and collection agency Universal Tracing Services (UTS) after a UTS employee allegedly posted a message on Ricobene's daughter's MySpace page threatening legal action if he did not surrender his 2007 Mercedes GL450, which he...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/01/2009 - 6:08pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/07/2008
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Publication: Website
Steven Riddle, the principal of Leverette Junior High School,
filed a defamation lawsuit against Chris Myers, the operator of SwampBubbles, a website that describes itself as " a user centered site dedicated to breaking news and political discussion of Toledo and...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/27/2008 - 1:31am - 2 comments
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Date: 03/30/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Publication: Website
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against BuzzFeed, Inc. (the operator of an internet news website), Jonah Peretti (the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed and...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/15/2011 - 11:00am - 0 comments
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Date: 08/10/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Forum
On August 10, 2010, Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/28/2010 - 3:39pm - 0 comments
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Date: 04/14/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Website
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas
Review-Journal owner
Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement
lawsuit against Matt...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/07/2010 - 9:36am - 0 comments
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Date: 01/11/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Forum
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Wayne Hoehn. Righthaven alleged that Hoehn copied an article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal without permission and posted it...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/08/2011 - 1:47pm - 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: 03/13/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Website
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas
Review-Journal owner
Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement
lawsuit against MoneyReign,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/24/2010 - 1:32pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/15/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Website
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas Review-Journal owner
Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) on March 15, 2010. The complaint,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/24/2010 - 11:49am - 0 comments
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Date: 05/04/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Website
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company that is the assignee of copyrights in certain articles that first appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and that is affiliated with the Review-Journal's owner Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/07/2010 - 12:22pm - 0 comments
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Date: 01/27/2011
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Publication: Website
Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against William Sumner and DailyKix.com. Righthaven alleged that Sumner used a photo copied from the Denver Post without permission on...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/06/2011 - 10:53am - 0 comments
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Date: 06/28/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Forum
On June 28, 2010, Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company associated with Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the website company Vote for the Worst ("VFTW") LLC and two of its managers, David Della Terza...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 04/18/2011 - 4:46pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/10/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Publication: Blog
John Robinson, a local business owner in Salisbury, Maryland, filed a defamation lawsuit against Joe Albero, rthe blogger who operates the Salisbury News. Robinson claimed that Albero harassed his family and published defamatory statements about them on his blog. The...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/11/2010 - 3:52pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/20/2002
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Subpoena Quashed, Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California, New Jersey
Publication: Forum
Investment management firm Rocker Management LLC filed a defamation suit against 20 anonymous posters who criticized Rocker Management and employee Marc Cohodoes on Yahoo! message boards. According to court filings, the posts accused Cohodoes of threatening stock analysts, lying about stock information,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 10/04/2008 - 1:55pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/13/2013
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Publication: Social Network
Miguel Rodriguez is a U.S. Navy veteran, who attended Widener University under the G.I. Bill as a student in the Biology Pre-Med Program, and worked as a tutor and Advisor and Operations Manager at the University. In a complaint...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/29/2013 - 4:53pm - 0 comments