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Date: 12/28/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Florida
Publication: Micro-blog
Dr. Sanford Siegal, creator of the "Cookie Diet" weight-loss program, and his company, Dr. Siegal's Direct Nutritionals, LLC, filed a defamation lawsuit against celebrity socialite, model, and actress Kim Kardashian after she posted negative comments about the "Cookie Diet" on...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 01/05/2010 - 6:16pm - 0 comments
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Date: 12/13/2005
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Injunction Issued, Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Texas
Publication: Forum
In December 2005, Texas real estate developer Sienna/Johnson Development and its senior vice president Douglas Goff sued Chris Calvin and the Committee for Responsible Development (an organization co-chaired by Calvin). Sienna and Goff alleged that Calvin posted critical comments about them on...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/12/2009 - 11:54am - 0 comments
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Date: 06/14/2005
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Injunction Issued, Verdict (plaintiff)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: North Dakota
Publication: Forum, Website
Sierra Corporate Design ("Sierra"), a self-described "specialized Internet service provider and web hosting provider," sued Ed Falk, an anti-spam campaigner and operator of the "Spam Tracking Page," and David Ritz, a member of one of Falk's Usenet groups, in North Dakota state...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
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Date: 07/22/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
On July 22, 2008, Elizabeth Silver, a blogger on PerezRevenge.com (now www.rPulse.com), which describes itself as a "website where celebrities could post information about their careers,
events and when necessary personal lives without the taint of rumor or
speculation" sued rival celebrity...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/16/2008 - 12:29am - 0 comments
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Date: 03/26/2009
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Settled (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: California
Publication: Blog, Micro-blog, Website
Fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, who works under the label "BoudoirQueen," sued celebrity Courtney Love in California state court over statementsmade on Twitter, on Love's MySpace blog, and on Simorangkir's feedback page on etsy.com,an online marketplace for...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/30/2009 - 6:24pm - 0 comments
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Date: 04/01/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
Type: Subpoena
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Publication: Forum, Website
In March 2008, Lawrence Sinclair sued three pseudonymous Internet users -- TubeSockTedD, mzmolly, and Owningliars -- for defamation in federal district court in the District of Columbia.
In late 2007/early 2008, Sinclair published a YouTube video and blog claiming that he had engaged...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/10/2009 - 7:34pm - 0 comments
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Date: 03/13/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Dismissed (total), Subpoena Quashed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
Publication: Forum, Website
In March 2008, Lawrence Sinclair sued three pseudonymous Internet users -- TubeSockTedD, mzmolly, and Owningliars -- for defamation in federal district court in the District of Columbia.
In late 2007/early 2008, Sinclair published a YouTube video and blog claiming that he had engaged...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/10/2009 - 6:58pm - 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: 11/21/2008
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Website
On November 21, 2008, John Singer filed a lawsuit against Centropa, a non-profit NGO based in Vienna, Austria, that focuses on documenting Jewish oral history through interviews. Centropa publishes these oral histories on its website, Centropa.org. Singer's complaint, filed in...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/03/2009 - 6:10pm - 0 comments
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Date: 06/30/2006
Status: Pending
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Publication: Wiki
Skutt Catholic High School sued anonymous Wikipedia posters over critical edits posted to the school's Wikipedia page in 2006. The posts criticized the quality of education at the school and its high tuition, used vulgar language, and referenced student drug use. After...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 06/30/2009 - 4:54pm - 0 comments
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Date: 07/16/2013
Status: Pending
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Publication: Website
This case arose from the judicial transfer of the copyright in a report entitled "Complaint Review: Richard A. Goren" ("the Report") that was posted on consumer reporting website Ripoff Report on January 31, 2012. The copyright transfer was ordered by a...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 07/30/2013 - 10:20am - 0 comments
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Date: 01/01/2009
Status: Pending
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
Type: Disciplinary Action
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Publication: Social Network
High School Principal Austin Couch suspended two female high school sophomores from participating in extracurricular athletics after Couch obtained sexually-suggestive photos that the students took of themselves and posted to MySpace. The students, T.V. and M.K., subsequently filed a class action...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/04/2009 - 6:13pm - 0 comments
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Date: 11/24/2010
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York, District of Columbia
Publication: Blog, Print
On November 19, 2010, the Washington City Paper published "The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder." The article levied a wide array of complaints about Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL franchise since 1999. The complaints...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/02/2011 - 2:33pm - 0 comments
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Date: 06/05/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Dismissed (total), Verdict (plaintiff)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Publication: Verbal, Website
The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist Christian church that contends that God kills soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America'stolerance of homosexuality and for the presence of gays in the U.S. military. The church operates a number of...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 10/25/2007 - 9:34am - 0 comments
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Date: 10/11/2007
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Correspondence
Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
Publication: Blog
The UK-based Society of Homeopaths sent a cease-and-desist letter to web host Netcetera demanding that it remove a post from Le Canard Noir's Quackometer blog entitled "The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killing."
The Society alleged that the post, which criticized it...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2008 - 4:35pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/11/2005
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Dismissed (total)
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Blog
In August 2005, Software Development and Investment of Nevada ("Software Development"), a Nevada corporation in the business of "internet advertising and internet placement optimization" under the name Traffic-Power.com, sued Aaron Wall and an unknown number of anonymous users of Wall's blog for...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 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: 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: 01/22/2004
Status: Pending
Disposition:
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: New York
Publication: Blog
James Sollami, the former Town Supervisor of Cornwall, New York, sued blogger Tom Sheppard for libel in New York state court in 2004. Sheppard operates a website called "Cornball-Local.com," which deals with local politics. Sollami objected to 27 statements made on the...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
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Date: 07/31/2006
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Material Removed, Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Utah
Publication: Social Network
Sorenson's Ranch School, a rehabilitation center and school for troubled youths in Koosharem, Utah, along with two of its officers filed a defamation lawsuit against MySpace and 10 unknown John Doe defendants claiming that a MySpace page had been set up in...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/16/2007 - 6:36pm - 0 comments