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  • Maxon v. Susan Wren
    Date: 09/08/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Illinois
    Publication: Website
    Donald and Janet Maxon served a pre-discovery petition on Ottawa Publishing Company, the operator of mywebtimes.com, a website for The Times, a local newspaper based in Ottawa, IL.  The Maxons seek to force The Times to provide identifying... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/20/2008 - 4:57pm - 0 comments
  • Mayflower Transit v. Prince
    Date: 10/30/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Material Removed, Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New Jersey
    Publication: Website
    Dr. Brett Prince contacted Mayflower Transit company, a moving company that uses the service mark MAYFLOWER, to assist him with a move.  Prince eventually contracted with Lincoln Storage, a company that he believed was a local affiliate of Mayflower.  Some of Prince's... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/30/2008 - 9:38am - 0 comments
  • Mayhew v. Dunn
    Date: 11/16/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Vermont
    Publication: Website
    Chris Grotke and Lise LePage, co-founders and owners of iBrattleboro.com, a citizen journalism site based in Brattleboro, Vermont, were sued on November 16 for libel based on a comment submitted by one of the site's users. The lawsuit, brought by... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/28/2007 - 10:32am - 0 comments
  • Mayor Sottile v. Richters
    Date: 05/15/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed, Retraction Issued, Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Blog
    James Sottile, the mayor of Kingston, New York, sued Clark Richters, an unemployed maintenance man and cable public access producer, for defamation after Richters posted an entry to his blog, Ulster County Politics, that incorrectly stated that Sottile would be... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/18/2008 - 5:43pm - 0 comments
  • McGeorge Camping Center v. Affinity Group
    Date: 12/13/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Virginia
    Publication: Forum
    Recreational vehicle dealership McGeorge Camping Center ("McGeorge") sued Affinity Group ("Affinity"), operator of the RV.Net Open Roads Forum, and several posters to the forum. The case revolves around statements accusing certain commenters who made positive statements about McGeorge... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/13/2008 - 6:15pm - 0 comments
  • McGibney v. Moore
    Date: 08/20/2012
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Default Judgment
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Nevada
    Publication: Website
    The defendant, Hunter Moore, founded a now-defunct website at... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/09/2013 - 11:34am - 0 comments
  • McMann v. Doe 1
    Date: 10/06/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total), Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
    Publication: Website
    Paul McMann, a Massachusetts real estate developer, sued the anonymous operator of an Internet "gripe site" about him. The website contained a photograph of Mr. McMann, the statement that he "turned lives upside down," and a suggestion to "be afraid, be... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
  • McMann v. Doe 2
    Date: 11/20/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total), Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Arizona
    Publication: Website
    Paul McMann, a Massachusetts real estate developer, sued the anonymous operator of an Internet "gripe site" about him. The website contained a photograph of Mr. McMann, the statement that he “turned lives upside down,” and a suggestion to "be afraid, be very... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:55pm - 0 comments
  • McVea v. Crisp
    Date: 04/20/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    Denise McVea, a journalist and author, sued Alamo historian James Crisp in Texas federal court for defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress after Crisp criticized McVea's research and book about in forum posts on a prominent Alamo history website,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/08/2008 - 12:46pm - 0 comments
  • McVicker v. Trib Total Media, Inc.
    Date: 01/22/2010
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    William McVicker subpoenaed Trib Total Media, publisher of the South Hills Record and YourSouthHills.com, for "information that would disclose the true identities" of the users of seven identified screen names. McVicker, the plaintiff in an employment discrimination case, sought the identities of the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/08/2010 - 1:24pm - 0 comments
  • MCW, Inc. v. Badbusinessbureau.com
    Date: 12/02/2002
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    MCW, Inc., a company providing career counseling under the trademark "Bernard Haldane," sued Badbusinessbureau.com, LLC ("BBB") and Edward Magedson in Texas ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/03/2008 - 12:14pm - 0 comments
  • MediaDefender v. isoHunt.com and GPiO.org
    Date: 09/17/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Arizona, Canada, Norway
    Publication: Forum, Website
    After internal e-mails from MediaDefender, a company that seeks to prevent the "spread of illegally traded copyrighted material over the Internet and Peer-to-Peer networks," were leaked, the company sent takedown notices to a number of sites that posted and... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/27/2008 - 5:12pm - 0 comments
  • Medinah Mining v. Ingram
    Date: 02/22/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Nevada
    Publication: Forum
    Medinah Mining Company ("Medinah"), a Nevada corporation, and Les Price, a Canadian citizen and officer and director of Medinah, sued sixteen individual defendants from Chile, Canada, and several U.S. states, alleging that they defamed Medinah and Price over the Internet, including... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/10/2008 - 11:24am - 0 comments
  • Melaleuca v. 43SB.COM, LLC
    Date: 06/07/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Idaho
    Publication: Blog, Website, Other
    43rd State Blues: Democracy for Idaho describes itself as a "website of, by and for Democrats and those who lean towards Democratic, progressive causes." The website offers what it calls a "team blog" service -- users who register for an... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/17/2007 - 12:42pm - 0 comments
  • Melius v. Keiffer
    Date: 02/01/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Louisiana
    Publication: Print, Verbal, Website
    In February 2006, David Melius filed a lawsuit against Maple Area Residents, Inc. (MARI), a neighborhood association in the Carrollton neighborhood of New Orleans that had opposed the construction of a new bar Melius wished to build, and two of... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/14/2008 - 3:28pm - 0 comments
  • Melvin v. Doe
    Date: 06/14/1999
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, Virginia
    Publication: Website
    Joan Melvin, a Pennsylvania Superior Court judge, sued the anonymous operator or operators of the website, "Grant Street '99," because of statements that appeared on the website accusing her of political activity and lobbying in connection with the gubernatorial appointment of another... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
  • Menhart v. Grossman
    Date: 01/01/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Illinois
    Publication: Blog
    Eric Menhart is a lawyer who practices Internet law or "cyberlaw" in Washington, D.C. He is the principal attorney at a law firm called "CyberLaw P.C" and operates the blog Cyberlawg. Michael Grossman, a Chicago-based attorney, operated a blog... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/28/2008 - 1:22pm - 0 comments
  • Mercy Hospital Anderson v. Selmeier
    Date: 01/01/2002
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued, Material Removed, Verdict (plaintiff)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Ohio
    Publication: Website
    An Ohio hospital, a doctor, and a nurse sued Joel Selmeier for defamation after he created a website making allegations about how he was treated during a 1996 hernia operation. According to one press account, the plaintiffs obtained a court... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/15/2008 - 7:33pm - 0 comments
  • Merkey v. Does
    Date: 06/22/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed, Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Utah
    Publication: Website, Wiki
    Jeff Merkey, a former employee of Novell, sued the operators of several websites with ties to the open source community, including legal news site groklaw.com, technology news site slashdot.org, and intellectual property site ip-wars.net, on claims... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/08/2008 - 11:50am - 0 comments
  • Merrill Lynch v. "Tyler Durden"
    Date: 05/12/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction:
    Publication: Blog
    In May 2009, lawyers for Merrill Lynch sent cease-and-desist letters alleging copyright infringement to"Tyler Durden" of the financial blog Zero Hedge over six posts that cited or excerpted from Merrill Lynch reports authored by Merrill's former chief economist, David Rosenberg. According to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/14/2009 - 2:59pm - 0 comments

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