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  • Wal-Mart v. Smith (Counterclaims)
    Date: 03/28/2006
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Georgia
    Publication: Website, Other
    Wal-Mart filed counterclaims in a lawsuit against Charles Smith, asserting trademark and unfair competition claims under federal and state law. The case arose after Smith created a website using the domain name www.walocaust.com and started selling nazi-themed "Walocaust" merchandise through his account... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/24/2008 - 2:06pm - 0 comments
  • Wal-Mart v. Smith (Letters)
    Date: 12/28/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Georgia
    Publication: Website, Other
    On December 28, 2005 and again on February 1, 2006, Wal-Mart sent cease-and-desist letters to Charles Smith and CafePress asserting trademark and unfair competition claims. The letters came after Smith created a website using the domain name www.walocaust.com and started selling nazi-themed... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/24/2008 - 11:14am - 0 comments
  • Wald v. Ford
    Date: 05/19/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Default Judgment, Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Blog
    Jeff Wald sued Luke Ford and anonymous defendants, claiming that Ford posted (and allowed anonymous users to post) defamatory statements about him on lukeford.net. Wald alleged that various statements and innuendo on the site caused readers to believe that he is deceptive,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:55pm - 0 comments
  • Ward v. Cisco Systems, Inc.
    Date: 11/07/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas, Arkansas
    Publication: Blog
    Rick Frenkel authors the Patent Troll Tracker blog, where he comments on lawsuits that in his view abuse the patent system. John Ward, Jr., a patent lawyer practicing in Texas, sued Frenkel and his employer, Cisco Systems,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 06/19/2008 - 5:07pm - 0 comments
  • Wargo v. Lavandeira
    Date: 07/14/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Ohio
    Publication: Blog
    Diane Wargo sued Mario Lavandeira, also known as Perez Hilton, and 25 anonymous PerezHilton.com posters in Ohio state court after Lavandeira published an email containing homophobic slurs that Wargo sent to the blog from her work email account.... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/11/2008 - 5:00pm - 2 comments
  • Warman v. Beaumont
    Date: 01/06/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Verdict (plaintiff)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Canada
    Publication: Forum
    Over a two-year period, Jessica Beaumont wrote and published over 1000 posts on a white supremacist forum called Stormfront White Nationalist Community, using the pseudonym "Jessy Destruction." Here are some illustrations of her alleged postings: Regarding blacks moving to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/29/2007 - 9:44am - 0 comments
  • Warman v. Fournier
    Date: 09/10/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Canada
    Publication: Forum, Website
    Richard Warman is a Canadian human rights lawyer based in Ottawa. Formerly with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Warman is best known for initiating human rights complaints against members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements for engaging in hate speech on the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/28/2007 - 10:18pm - 0 comments
  • Warner Bros. Records v. Music2Nite
    Date: 10/20/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Israel
    Publication: Blog
    Warner Bros. Records sent a cease and desist letter (via Blogger) to Music2Nite, a music blog that had posted materials related to recording artist Madonna. The demand letter not only specified that the blog owner remove a specific post -- Music2Nite primarily... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/22/2008 - 6:56pm - 0 comments
  • Warranty Automotive Services v. Does
    Date: 04/06/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Georgia
    Publication: Website
    On April 6, 2010, Warranty Automotive Services Corp. filed a complaint in federal district court against unnamed Does for claims arising out of defendants' operation of a website at www.lifetimewarrantymyths.com. The Complaint indicates that plaintiff believes the defendants may be residents of... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/29/2010 - 2:53pm - 0 comments
  • Warren Kremer Paino Advertising v. Dutson
    Date: 04/14/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Maine
    Publication: Blog
    Lance Dutson operates a blog, the "Maine Web Report." Beginning in February 2006, he published a series of posts that were critical of the Maine Department of Tourism and Warren Kremer Paino Advertising LLC ("Warren Kremer"), an advertising agency that had worked... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
  • Washington Post v. Tunison
    Date: 04/17/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
    Publication: Blog
    The Washington Post reportedly fired staffer Michael Tunison over profane blog posts on NFL humor blog Kissing Suzy Kolber. Tunison was a regular poster to the blog under the pseudonym "Christmas Ape," and the disciplinary action came... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/22/2008 - 7:28pm - 0 comments
  • Washington Redskins v. Steinberg
    Date: 10/01/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
    Publication: Blog
    According to Techdirt, a representative of the Washington Redskins football team requested that The Washington Post remove photos from Dan Steinberg's Post-hosted D.C. Sports Bog because of alleged violation of the Redskins' credentialing policy.  Steinberg published a post about... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/26/2009 - 12:41pm - 0 comments
  • Waters v. Miller
    Date: 05/24/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Social Network
    There is little information available about this case, but it appears that high school student Douglas Miller posted sexually demeaning statements alongside high school teacher Lee Waters's photograph on MySpace (it is not clear whether Miller also posted the photograph or just... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
  • Webster v. Albero
    Date: 05/23/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Maryland
    Publication: Blog
    Salisbury, Maryland Police Chief Allan Webster filed a lawsuit against local blogger Joe Albero, who operates the Salisbury News blog, wich covers matters of local interest in Salisbury and Wicomico County. Albero, who often takes local politicians to task, criticized... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/30/2008 - 11:23am - 0 comments
  • Weedsport Central School District v. Wisniewski
    Date: 04/26/2001
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Other
    Aaron Wisniewski, an eighth grader, sent instant messages to several of his friends using his home computer. The instant messages contained a "buddy icon" that Aaron had designed, which was a picture of a pistol firing at a man's head with the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/23/2007 - 5:19pm - 0 comments
  • Welch v. Nyberg
    Date: 09/06/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Illinois
    Publication: Blog
    Blogger Carl Nyberg filed a complaint against local school board president and lawyer Emanuel Welch with the state Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission, claiming that Welch violated conflict of interest rules by voting to hire his brother Bill Welch as a custodian... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
  • Welch v. Nyberg II
    Date: 07/14/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Injunction Issued, Material Removed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Illinois
    Publication: Blog
    School board president Chris Welch filed a defamation suit against blogger Carl Nyberg over posts accusing Welch of participating in an illegal kickback scheme. Nyberg, who runs the Proviso Probe blog, has long been an outspoken critic of Welch.  This... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/18/2008 - 4:25pm - 0 comments
  • West Lafayette High School v. Casseday
    Date: 10/05/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: Indiana
    Publication: Social Network
    West Lafayette High School student Caitlyn Casseday received a one-day in-school suspension on October 5, 2007, for calling assistant principal Ron Shriner an "ass" on Facebook. The criticism was posted in a Facebook group set up to support another... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/18/2008 - 2:41pm - 0 comments
  • White, et al. v. West Publishing Corporation, et al.
    Date: 02/22/2012
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Website
    On February 22, 2012, two attorneys and an associated law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against legal database companies West Publishing (proprietor of Westlaw) and Reed Elsevier (proprietor of LexisNexis). The plaintiffs allege that by including legal filings—such as motions, briefs, and... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/26/2012 - 1:26pm - 0 comments
  • Whitney Information Network v. Xcentric Ventures
    Date: 01/27/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Forum
    In January 2004, Whitney Information Network, Inc., a company that provides real estate training programs and seminars, and its CEO Russ Whitney sued Xcentric Ventures, LLC and its founder and managing member, Ed Magedson. Xcentric operates the Ripoff Report website, located at... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/18/2008 - 10:41pm - 0 comments

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