Legal Threats Initiated by Correspondence

  • Oregon v. Justia
    Date: 04/07/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Website
    On April 7, 2008, the Legislative Counsel Committee of the State of Oregon sent a cease-and-desist letter to Justia, a free online resource for judicial decisions and statutes, claiming that Justia's posting of the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/17/2008 - 3:07pm - 0 comments
  • Palin v. Latif
    Date: 05/05/2009
    Status:
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Website
    Sarah Palin, then Governor of Alaska, sent a cease and desist letter to Shoe Latif, a Houston-based DJ, who redirected traffic from her website crackho.com to Palin's official website. The cease and desist letter claimed that... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/02/2009 - 11:57am - 0 comments
  • Palin v. Moore
    Date: 07/04/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Alaska
    Publication: Blog, Broadcast, Website
    On July 4, 2009, an attorney for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin sent an open letter to Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, the Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news organizations threatening to file... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/05/2009 - 11:45am - 0 comments
  • Patterson v. Cole
    Date: 02/27/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Blog
    Benjamin Cole, writer for SBCOutpost.com, a collaborative "Southern Baptist news & commentary" blog, received a cease and desist letter from counsel representing Dr. Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Cole had criticized Patterson in a ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/24/2008 - 5:11pm - 0 comments
  • Peabody Energy Corporation v. DeSmet
    Date: 01/06/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction:
    Publication: Website
    On January 6, 2010, Peabody Energy Corporation sent a demand letter to Brian DeSmit, an environmental activist who operates a website at http://cleancoalwustl.org/. Peabody is part of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization (CCCU) with Washington University, which funds research efforts to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/20/2010 - 5:13pm - 0 comments
  • Platinum Equity v. San Diego Reader
    Date: 06/26/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Print, Website
    Platinum Equity, LLC, the parent company of the Union-Tribune newspaper, sent a letter to the San Diego Reader, another local newspaper with a website edition, cautioning them against publishing a story on two lawsuits charging Platinum with workplace sexual harassment.... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/26/2009 - 7:12pm - 0 comments
  • Polo Ralph Lauren v. Boing Boing
    Date: 10/02/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California, Canada
    Publication: Blog
    In October 2009, Ralph Lauren sent a DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing's webhost, Priority Colo, alleging that Boing Boing's posting of a Ralph Lauren advertisement violated its copyright. The Ralph Lauren advertisement featured a... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/14/2009 - 12:53pm - 0 comments
  • Prince v. Prince Fan Sites
    Date: 11/06/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California, China, Netherlands
    Publication: Website
    Lawyers for the musician formerly known, and now currently known, as Prince have sent cease-and-desist letters and at least one DMCA takedown notice to the three largest Prince fansites, Prince.org, Princefams.com, and Housequake.com, demanding that... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/25/2008 - 2:59pm - 0 comments
  • Princeton v. RedState
    Date: 05/14/2010
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
    Publication: Blog
    On May 14, 2010, Princeton University Archivist and Curator of Public Policy Papers, Daniel J. Linke, sent an email to RedState, a right-of-center blog, requesting that RedState remove a copy of Elena Kagan's undergraduate thesis from their... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 06/18/2010 - 3:32pm - 0 comments
  • Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association v. SHARK
    Date: 12/11/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Illinois
    Publication: Website
    YouTube.com shut down the account of Showing Animals Respect And Kindness ("SHARK"), an animal rights activitist group, after the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association ("PRCA") filed DMCA takedown notices in December 2007 regarding SHARK videos that... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/11/2008 - 4:07pm - 0 comments
  • Przydzial v. Alkhateeb
    Date: 08/01/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Website
    In August 2009, photo-sharing site Flickr removed an image from Firas Alkhateeb's photostream in response to a DMCA takedown notice.  The image was a photograph of President Barack Obama from the cover of Time Magazine modified to look like... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/18/2009 - 11:20am - 0 comments
  • Religious Technology Center v. Wikileaks
    Date: 03/27/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction:
    Publication: Wiki
    On March 28, 2008, a lawyer for the Religious Technology Center (RTC), the entity that owns copyright in the Church of Scientology's writings and religious materials, sent an email to Wikileaks alleging copyright infringement. The email... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/14/2008 - 4:43pm - 0 comments
  • Reynolds v. Falk (Letters)
    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... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/25/2007 - 8:00pm - 0 comments
  • Route 60 Hyundai v. Alascio
    Date: 12/04/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Micro-blog, Social Network
    Counsel for Route 60 Hyundai, a car dealership in Florida, sent a demand letter to Thomas Alascio after he posted critical comments about the dealership on Twitter and Facebook.  The letter accused Alascio of defaming the company and demanded that... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/04/2010 - 4:04pm - 0 comments
  • RSA v. Scott Jarkoff
    Date: 07/19/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Japan
    Publication: Blog
    After Jarkoff posted an entry about the security risks he sees with the login mechanism of the Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) website on his blog, TechMiso, he received an e-mail from the RSA Anti Fraud Command Centre.  RSA Security... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/09/2009 - 10:55am - 0 comments
  • S.C. v. TheDirty
    Date: 05/20/2011
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Missouri
    Publication: Website
    On April 14, 2011, plaintiff "S.C." sued TheDirty, a gossip web site that advertises itself as the "first ever reality blogger," and Nik Richie, owner of the web site, for posting allegedly defamatory comments submitted by a third party. According to the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/18/2011 - 5:38pm - 0 comments
  • Sarah Palin v. "Gryphen"
    Date: 08/01/2009
    Status:
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Alaska
    Publication: Blog
    On August 1, 2009, Sarah Palin's lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to Alaskan blogger "Gryphen" over a post published earlier that day on Gryphen's blog ImmoralMinority.   The cease and deist letter takes issue with a number... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/17/2009 - 9:21pm - 0 comments
  • Sarnoff v. Falco
    Date: 02/01/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Blog
    On February 1, 2010, counsel for  Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff sent a demand letter to blogger Tom Falco, who publishes the Coconut Grove Grapevine.  The letter claimed that an anonymous comment to the site was false and defamatory. The... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/16/2010 - 6:28pm - 0 comments
  • SFX Baseball Group v. MarianoRivera.com
    Date: 07/20/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: North Carolina
    Publication: Website
    On July 20, 2007, Patrick O'Keefe, the operator of the fan site MarianoRivera.com received a letter from SFX Baseball Group, which represents Yankees baseball player, Mariano Rivera. The letter asserted that the site's use of the domain name, marianorivera.com, violates the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 4:16pm - 0 comments
  • Society of Homeopaths v. Netcetera
    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... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2008 - 4:35pm - 0 comments

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