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  • Deep Blue Marine v. Krajewski
    Date: 05/20/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total), Injunction Issued
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Utah
    Publication: Forum
    Deep Blue Marine, its CEO Wilf Blum, and Alexander Lindale LLC sued former Deep Blue operations manager Edward Krajewski after Krajewski criticized the plaintiffs and allegedly disclosed Deep Blue proprietary information on several online investor forums. The plaintiffs sought an injunction in Utah federal court... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/30/2008 - 3:17pm - 0 comments
  • Demings v. Harris
    Date: 04/17/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Blog
    On April 17, 2009, counsel for Orlando Police Chief Val Demings sent a letter threatening legal action against Ezell "Easy" Harris, publisher of Valdemings.com, a website that criticizes her performance in office. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/28/2009 - 1:00pm - 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    Disposition: Withdrawn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
  • Dendrite International v. Does
    Date: 05/24/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New Jersey
    Publication: Forum
    Dendrite International, a company that developed and serviced software for the pharmaceutical industry, brought a John Doe lawsuit in New Jersey state court against fourteen unnamed defendants for critical messages they posted on Yahoo! message boards. Dendrite claimed the messages were defamatory... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/05/2007 - 9:49pm - 0 comments
  • Denner v. Boston Bob
    Date: 12/01/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
    Publication: Blog
    On December 1, 2008, the blog-hosting service Blogger removed the blog titled "Jeffrey Denner's ineffective assistance of counsel" after Jeffrey Denner delivered to it a court order prohibiting Derrick Gillenwater from using the words "Jeffrey" or "Denner" or... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/03/2008 - 6:17pm - 0 comments
  • Denner v. Gillenwater
    Date: 10/10/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Injunction Issued
    Type: Other
    Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
    Publication: Blog
    Derrick Gillenwater sued lawyers Jeffrey Denner and Kevin Barron for malpractice in Massachusetts state court.  During the litigation, Gillenwater allegedly sent a threatening email to Denner and Barron, stating that he would "send his blog posting out to the media" and that... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/03/2008 - 6:26pm - 0 comments
  • Deon v. McMonagle
    Date: 12/08/2005
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Website
    In December 2005, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commissioner Pasquale Deon filed a libel suit against the Town Supervisor of Middletown, Pennsylvania, Robert McMonagle, in Pennsylvania state court. Deon alleged that McMonagle published statements claiming on two websites dealing with local politics that Deon was... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
  • Department of Homeland Security v Does
    Date: 07/12/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Website
    According to the Wayne County Star, the Department of Home­land Security is investigating racially insensitive comments posted to an article on the Wayne County Star’s website about a July 12 incident in which Border Patrol officials... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/09/2009 - 8:55am - 0 comments
  • DeRosa v. Does
    Date: 11/19/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    On November 19, 2009, Thomas DeRosa, Chairman of the Forward Township Board of Supervisors, filed a complaint in the Court of Common Pleas for Allegheny County against two Doe defendants, asserting claims for defamation.  According to news reports from the Pittsburg Tribune-Review,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/04/2010 - 1:45pm - 0 comments
  • DeRosa v. Rattanni
    Date: 11/20/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    On November 20, 2009, Thomas DeRosa, Chairman of the Forward Township Board of Supervisors, issued a subpoena seeking discovery from Richard S. Rattanni, the operator of the website elizabethboro.com, in order to identify the posters of allegedly defamatory comments on that website. The subpoena... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/04/2010 - 1:56pm - 0 comments
  • Devenyns v. Albero
    Date: 07/24/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Maryland
    Publication: Blog
    A Maryland prison director filed a defamation lawsuit against Maryland political blogger Joseph Albero for allowing an allegedly defamatory user comment to appear on his website. Douglas Devenyns claims an anonymous commenter on Albero's Salisbury News blog falsely stated he was a... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/28/2009 - 10:11am - 0 comments
  • DiAdamo v. Duggan
    Date: 09/29/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
    Publication: Blog, Broadcast, Website
    Thomas Duggan, who who hosts the "Paying Attention!" radio program on WCAP 980AM in Lowell Massachusetts, was sued by William DiAdamo, a local attorney, over statements Duggan made on his radio program and republished on his blog, ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/22/2008 - 3:09pm - 0 comments
  • Diebold, Inc. v. Online Policy Group
    Date: 10/10/2003
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Website
    Sometime in early 2003, an unknown person or persons obtained and reproduced on the Internet copies of an archive of email messages exchanged between employees of Diebold, a manufacturer of electronic voting machines. According to court documents, some emails in the archive... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/14/2007 - 10:27am - 0 comments
  • Dietz Development LLC v. Perez
    Date: 10/31/2012
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Injunction Issued
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Virginia
    Publication: Forum
    Dietz Development is a construction contractor based in Washington, DC. According to the complaint, Jane Perez, a high school classmate of Dietz Development owner Christopher Dietz, hired Dietz Development to do work on Perez's home. Disagreements arose over the nature... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/14/2012 - 11:24am - 0 comments
  • Difrawi v. Garga-Richardson (Lawsuit)
    Date: 06/06/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Forum
    Internet Solutions Corporation, a company that runs a number of employment recruiting and Internet advertising businesses, and Ayman Difrawi (a.k.a. Alec Difrawi), the President and Director of Internet Solutions, sued Archie Garga-Richardson, the founder and operator of ScamFraudAlert.com, for defamation... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 06/11/2008 - 10:11am - 0 comments
  • Difrawi v. Henderson
    Date: 11/21/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Blog, Website
    In November 2007, Internet Solutions Corporation and its President and Director Ayman Difrawi (a.k.a. Alec Difrawi) sued Les Henderson, Daniel Bruce Scalf, Jeremy Scalf, Conrad Longmore, and a number of anonymous defendants for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and other torts.... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/11/2008 - 11:37pm - 1 comments
  • Digital Broadband Networks v. Does
    Date: 12/01/2003
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New Jersey
    Publication: Forum
    Digital Broadband Networks and its president Patrick Lim sued seven pseudonymous internet posters in New Jersey state court for defamation over statements on electronic bulletin boards dedicated to Digital Broadband on Ragingbull.com and on general messages boards on Yahoo. The company alleged... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/13/2009 - 6:32pm - 0 comments
  • DiMeo v. Max
    Date: 04/12/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    Anthony DiMeo III, blueberry farm heir and operator of publicity firm Renamity, threw a New Years Eve party on December 31, 2005 that did not end well -- the district court judge referred to it as "the ... party from hell." Tucker... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 1 comments
  • DirectBuy v. Leonard
    Date: 09/21/2007
    Status:
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Arizona
    Publication: Forum
    Justin Leonard of Scottsdale, Arizona publishes three websites: infomercialblog.com, infomercialratings.com, and infomercialscams.com. These websites give consumers the opportunity to voice their criticisms and defenses of various products and services. On September 21, 2007, DirectBuy, a company... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/18/2007 - 9:51am - 0 comments
  • Directory Assistants, Inc. v. SuperMedia, LLC
    Date: 08/26/2011
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Virginia
    Publication: Email, Website
    On August 26, 2011, Directory Assistants, Inc., a Connecticut-based advertising consulting agency, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against advertising company SuperMedia, LLC, and three of its employees. The claims, which sound... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/15/2012 - 4:50pm - 0 comments

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