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  • Boulder County Sheriff v. MySpace
    Date: 11/11/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Colorado
    Publication: Social Network
    MySpace provided records subpoenaed by the Boulder County sheriff's department in a criminal libel investigation, commenced after a Colorado woman reported finding pictures of herself on MySpace under a fake profile named "Dirty Whore" that included information indicating that she was interested... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:55pm - 0 comments
  • Boulder County Sheriff v. Unknown MySpace User
    Date: 11/11/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Criminal Investigation
    Jurisdiction: Colorado
    Publication: Social Network
    MySpace provided records subpoenaed by the Boulder County sheriff's department in a criminal libel investigation, commenced after a Colorado woman reported finding pictures of herself on MySpace under a fake profile named "Dirty Whore" that included information indicating that she... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/16/2008 - 10:03pm - 0 comments
  • Brabus Ventures v. Zablotskyy
    Date: 06/04/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Blog
    Vlad Zablotskyy, a former real estate agent and operator of Go Beyond MLS, a blog that is focused on "using modern media and Internet as a marketing tool in the real estate industry," was sued by Brabus Ventures Corporation, which... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/28/2008 - 10:48pm - 2 comments
  • Bradley v. Conner
    Date: 07/23/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Forum
    Kimball Bradley, an executive at Reunion Industries, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturing company, sued Herbert Conner, an attorney who previously represented Reunion, over posts Conner allegedly made on a Yahoo! Finance Message Board that Bradley believed defamed him and cast... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/23/2008 - 12:44pm - 0 comments
  • Brandon v. Wizeman
    Date: 04/09/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total), Verdict (plaintiff)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: South Carolina
    Publication: Blog
    Scott Brandon, the head of an ad agency, filed a defamation lawsuit in South Carolina state court against Donald Wizeman over statements published on the Myrtle Beach Insider blog.  According to The Sun News, Brandon alleged that Wizeman... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/14/2009 - 11:40am - 0 comments
  • Brazil v. Roe
    Date: 03/29/2007
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Missouri
    Publication: Blog
    On March 29, 2007, St. Charles County County Commissioner Joe Brazil filed a defamation lawsuit against political consultant Jeff Roe after Roe published statements on his blog, The Source, claiming that Brazil had been drinking at the time of an... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/03/2008 - 2:29pm - 0 comments
  • Brodie v. Independent Newspapers, Inc. (Lawsuit)
    Date: 05/26/2006
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial), Material Removed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Maryland
    Publication: Forum
    Real estate developer and business owner Zebulon Brodie sued Independent Newspapers, Inc. ("INI") and three anonymous commenters to a community forum hosted by INI for defamation and conspiracy. According to a brief filed on appeal,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/08/2008 - 6:18pm - 0 comments
  • Brodie v. Independent Newspapers, Inc. (Subpoena)
    Date: 08/01/2006
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Material Removed, Subpoena Quashed
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Maryland
    Publication: Forum
    Real estate developer and business owner Zebulon Brodie subpoenaed Independent Newspapers, Inc. ("INI") seeking the identity of three anonymous commenters to a community forum hosted by INI.  The subpoena issued in connection with a defamation lawsuit Brodie filed... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/08/2008 - 7:08pm - 0 comments
  • Brown v. Doe
    Date: 03/27/2012
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Nevada
    Publication: Website
    On March 27, 2012, Mary and Phil Brown filed suit in Nevada state court against an annonymous online commenter. According to news reports, a commenter on the Las Vegas Review-Journal's website posted allegedly defamatory statements about the plaintiffs' romantic history. The... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/25/2012 - 1:53pm - 0 comments
  • Browne v. Avvo Inc.
    Date: 06/14/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Washington
    Publication: Website
    On June 14, 2007, two prominent lawyers in Seattle, WA filed a class action lawsuit against Avvo Inc., the operator of Avvo.com, a website that profiles and rates lawyers and allows users to submit reviews of lawyers they... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/19/2007 - 1:46pm - 0 comments
  • Butler University v. Zimmerman
    Date: 01/08/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed, Subpoena Enforced, Withdrawn
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Indiana
    Publication: Blog
    In January 2009, Butler University filed a "John Doe" defamation lawsuit against the pseudonymous author of the TrueBU blog, who signed his posts "Soodo Nym." The author later was identified as Butler University student Jess Zimmerman. The complaint... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/30/2009 - 11:45am - 0 comments
  • Byrge v. Campfield
    Date: 11/01/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Tennessee
    Publication: Blog
    After losing his bid for a seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives, Democratic candidate Roger Byrge sued incumbent Republican Representative Stacey Campfield for libel over statements posted on Campfield's Camp4u blog. ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/03/2008 - 10:37am - 0 comments
  • Cafiero v. Custer
    Date: 08/14/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
    Publication: Blog, Forum, Social Network, Website
    John Cafiero, a rock musician and manager of punk bands The Ramones and The Misfits, filed suit against Doug Custer (a/k/a Doug Evil) alleging in his complaint that Custer infringed his copyright by posting an animated video featuring The Misfits... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 06/25/2009 - 12:32am - 0 comments
  • Cahill v. Doe (Schaeffer)
    Date: 11/02/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Delaware
    Publication: Blog
    Using the alias "Proud Citizen," an anonymous commenter posted two statements on the "Smyrna/Clayton Issues Blog," a website sponsored by the Delaware State News. The statements criticized Patrick Cahill, a City Councilman of Smyrna, saying that Cahill was "paranoid" and had undergone... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/20/2007 - 7:23pm - 0 comments
  • CAIR v. Whitehead
    Date: 03/29/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Virginia
    Publication: Website
    Andrew Whitehead published statements on his website, Anti-CAIR, that denounced the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "terrorist supporting front organization" that had strong financial ties to Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations. In April 2004, CAIR sued Whitehead... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
  • CAIR v. Whitehead (Letter)
    Date: 01/06/2004
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Virginia
    Publication: Website
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent a cease-and-desist letter to Andrew Whitehead, claiming that Whitehead had made defamatory statements about the organization on his website. The letter stated that CAIR would file a lawsuit against Whitehead unless Whitehead agreed to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/04/2007 - 3:37pm - 0 comments
  • Caldwell v. Caldwell
    Date: 10/14/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Website
    In October 2005, Jeanne Caldwell filed a complaint in federal court in California against Roy Caldwell, the Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, David Lindberg, Chair of the Integrative Biology Department at UC Berkeley, and Michael Piburn,... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/16/2009 - 6:08pm - 0 comments
  • California Bar v. Wilson
    Date: 01/23/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Blog
    The California Bar suspended Frank Russell Wilson for failing to disclose he that he was an attorney and blogging about a trial while serving as a juror. Wilson served a juror during the trial of a man charged with five counts... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 08/31/2009 - 7:06pm - 0 comments
  • Cambridge Who's Who Publishing v. Xcentric Ventures
    Date: 12/12/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Forum
    Cambridge Who's Who Publishing, Inc. ("Cambridge") sued Xcentric Ventures, LLC and Edward Magedson in federal court in New York over user reports published on the Ripoff Report website, which provides a forum in which consumers may accuse companies and individuals... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 11/12/2008 - 6:35pm - 0 comments
  • Carabelli v. The Michigan Messenger
    Date: 10/01/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Michigan
    Publication: Website
    James Carabelli, chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, sued The Michigan Messenger, a news site owned by the Center for Independent Media, for defamation in Michigan state court in October 2008. The lawsuit revolves... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/18/2009 - 5:19pm - 0 comments

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