Lawsuits Involving Forum Posts and User Comments

This page lists all lawsuits in the DMLP database that involve blogs. The most recent lawsuits are listed first

  • Cisneros v. Sanchez
    Date: 08/24/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed, Retraction Issued, Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    Robert Sanchez lost an election for City Commissioner in Brownsville, Texas, but kept the forum on his campaign website active after the election. Elena Cisneros, the wife of Sanchez's former opponent, sued Sanchez for defamation in Texas state court claiming that pseudonymous... read full description
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  • Zeran v. America Online
    Date: 04/23/1996
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Virginia, Oklahoma
    Publication: Forum
    Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, an unknown person posted messages on an AOL bulletin board purporting to offer for sale t-shirts and other items which supported or made light of the bombing in Oklahoma City. The messages contained Kenneth Zeran’s first... read full description
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  • Barrett v. Rosenthal
    Date: 11/03/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Email, Forum
    The plaintiffs, Dr. Stephen J. Barrett and Dr. Timothy Polevoy, operated websites devoted to exposing health frauds. Ilena Rosenthal directed the Humantics Foundation for Women and operated an Internet discussion group. Barrett and Polevoy claimed that Rosenthal and her co-defendants committed libel... read full description
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  • Doe v. Bates
    Date: 05/09/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    The parents of a child who was victimized by an online pornography group filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! alleging that it knowingly hosted illegal child pornography on the "Candyman" Yahoo! Group. The plaintiffs sued both the moderator of that "e-group" (who was... read full description
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  • eAppraiseIT v. Crowley
    Date: 06/19/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Injunction Denied, Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Forum, Website
    Crowley runs www.mortgagefraudwatchlist.org, a part-free, part-subscription database of mortgage fraud reports and information. She also is a moderator of AppraisersForum.com, a message board for mortgage appraisers. Crowley wrote posts on both sites criticizing eAppraiseIT, a mortgage appraisal management company. Her posts allegedly... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
  • Democratic National Committee v. FreeRepublic
    Date: 05/10/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Forum
    On May 10, 2007, a user on the FreeRepublic forum posted that he had heard on a XM Satellite Radio talk show that DNC Chairman Howard Dean had called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius asking her to politicize the recovery effort from a... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments

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