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  • Feld v. Conway
    Date: 12/10/2013
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
    Publication: Micro-blog
    In November 2010, Mara Feld arranged for her thoroughbred gelding to be shipped to a horse farm. The horse was instead sent to a horse auction and may have been slaughtered in Canada. The horse's fate became a topic of... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/23/2014 - 4:10pm - 0 comments
  • Filler, et al. v. Walker, et al.
    Date: 05/31/2011
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Forum
    Dr. Aaron Filler filed a complaint against former patient Susan Walker in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 31, 2011. In his complaint, Filler alleged defamation and interference with prospective economic advantage in response to Walker's review of Dr. Filler on a... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/31/2012 - 2:51pm - 0 comments
  • Finkel v. Facebook
    Date: 02/16/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Social Network
    Teenager Denise Finkel sued four of her former high school classmates, their parents, and Facebook after the students created a private Facebook group called "90 Cents Short of a Dollar," which allegedly contained false and defamatory statements about her.  The complaint alleges... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/03/2009 - 7:29pm - 0 comments
  • First Call Properties v. Craigslist
    Date: 05/29/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Website
    First Call Properties and its officers filed suit against AAA Apartment Locating and Craigslist in Texas state court, alleging, among other claims, trademark infringement, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and tortious interference.  According to the complaint, First Call began... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/20/2009 - 12:09pm - 0 comments
  • First Cash Financial Services v. Doe
    Date: 08/19/2002
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California, Texas
    Publication: Forum
    First Cash Financial Services, a Texas-based company operating a chain of pawn shops and cash checking services, sued a John Doe defendant in Texas state court.  The complaint alleged breach of contract arsing out of critical statements about the firm's... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/13/2009 - 4:57pm - 0 comments
  • First Cash Financial Services v. Yahoo! Inc.
    Date: 07/30/2003
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Forum
    First Cash Financial Services, a Texas-based company operating a chain of pawn shops and cash checking services, obtained a subpoena from a California state court requiring Yahoo to provide identifying information for an individual who posted anonymous comments to Fast... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/13/2009 - 5:35pm - 0 comments
  • Fisher & Phillips v. Does
    Date: 06/29/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Georgia
    Publication: Blog
    In June 2005, Fisher & Phillips LLP, an Atlanta employment law firm, sued 5 anonymous bloggers for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and interference with business and contractual relations. The complaint did not identify the allegedly defamatory statements with any specificity... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
  • Fisher v. Offit
    Date: 12/23/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Virginia
    Publication: Website
    On December 23, 2009 Barbara Loe Fisher filed a complaint in federal district court of Virginia against Dr. Paul Offit, Conde Nast Publications (the publisher of Wired Magazine) and Amy Wallace (a writer for Wired) for defamation, seeking damages of $1 million. Ms.... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/06/2010 - 12:34pm - 0 comments
  • Fitch v. Doe
    Date: 02/04/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Maine
    Publication: Email
    In February 2004, Ronald Fitch filed a John Doe lawsuit in state court in Maine based on a fake e-mail that was circulated in his name. According to papers filed in the lawsuit, an anonymous person set up an e-mail account... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/12/2007 - 6:31pm - 0 comments
  • Fitzgerald v. CBS Broadcasting
    Date: 10/12/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
    Publication: Broadcast, Website
    Christopher Fitzgerald, a freelance photographer who was working on assignment for the Boston Globe, photographed well-known mobster Stephen Flemmi on January 6, 1995 while Flemmi was being transferred shortly after his arrest. Fitzgerald was the only photographer at the scene, and thus... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/03/2008 - 8:13pm - 0 comments
  • Fitzgerald v. Maslona
    Date: 06/02/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Illinois
    Publication: Website
    On June 2, 2010, Michael Fitzgerald, owner of Chicago's All Fields of Concrete Construction, filed a defamation lawsuit against Helen Maslona in Illinois state court.  The lawsuit seeks $10,000 in damages and court costs. According to news reports, the lawsuit is... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 07/12/2010 - 12:06pm - 0 comments
  • Flavaworks v. Cannick
    Date: 07/18/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Blog
    The Chicago Department of Public Health released a Winter 2006 report regarding a “cluster” of HIV and other STD outbreaks at a Chicago apartment building. The report noted that the outbreaks were associated with Flavaworks, an Internet pornography company that had used... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
  • Florida Bar v. Conway
    Date: 04/03/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Blog
    The Florida Bar took disciplinary action against Florida attorney Sean Conway after he wrote a post on JAABlog criticizing Judge Cheryl Aleman's practice of setting unreasonably short time periods for criminal defendants to prepare for trial.  In the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/19/2008 - 2:11pm - 0 comments
  • Florida v. Brayshaw
    Date: 05/01/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total), Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Criminal Charge
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Forum
    Florida state authorities charged Robert Brayshaw with a misdemeanor for violating Fla. Stat. § 843.17 after he anonymously posted the name, address, and telephone number of a Tallahassee Police Department officer on RateMyCop.com.  Section 843.17 prohibits publication of a law... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/18/2009 - 5:01pm - 0 comments
  • Florida v. Figueroa-Santiago
    Date: 11/14/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Criminal Charge
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Social Network
    The State of Florida filed criminal charges against three men for allegedly violating a state law prohibiting the promotion of gang activity over the Internet. The statute, Fla. Stat. 874.11, was adopted on June 30, 2008 as part of the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/06/2009 - 1:34pm - 0 comments
  • Florida v. RateMyCop.com
    Date: 05/01/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Forum
    The Tallahassee Police Department subpoenaed records from RateMyCop.com after an anonymous user posted the name, address, and telephone number of a Tallahassee police officer on the site, according to Wired. When the authorities obtained identifying information for the poster,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/18/2009 - 5:21pm - 0 comments
  • Floyd v. WBTW
    Date: 07/17/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: South Carolina
    Publication: Website
    In July 2006, Dr. James Floyd sued South Carolina television station WBTW-TV and its parent company for defamation in South Carolina state court. The dispute revolved around a March 1, 2006 WBTW-TV report on local doctors suspended from the practice of medicine... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/19/2008 - 10:52am - 0 comments
  • FORBA v. Hagan
    Date: 11/14/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Injunction Issued, Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Kentucky
    Publication: Blog
    FORBA Holdings, a dental practice management company, sued blogger Debbie Hagan after she posted internal FORBA documents on her blog, Dentist the Menace, which covers alleged misconduct in the dental profession. According to the complaint, Google search crawlers indexed a... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/12/2009 - 12:11pm - 0 comments
  • Ford Motor Company v. 2600 Enterprises
    Date: 04/18/2001
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Injunction Denied
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Michigan
    Publication: Website
    As an act of "cyber-art," defendants 2600 Enterprises and Eric Corley registered the domain name www.fuckgeneralmotors.com and programmed the associated website so that it would automatically redirect to www.ford.com, Ford Motor Company's official website. Ford sued for trademark... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/13/2008 - 3:13pm - 0 comments
  • Fox News v. McCain
    Date: 10/25/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction:
    Publication: Broadcast, Website
    Senator John McCain's presidential campaign broadcast an advertisement on television and on McCain's website featuring an eighteen-second video clip excerpted from the GOP presidential debate that had been broadcast on the Fox News Channel the week before. In the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/26/2007 - 4:37pm - 0 comments

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