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  • Cintas Corp. v. UNITE HERE
    Date: 03/05/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Print, Website
    On March 5, 2008, Cintas, a Fortune 500 company and manufacturer of uniforms, sued several unions, including UNITE HERE, Change to Win, and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and several individuals, including Bruce Raynor, Ahmer Qadeer, Keith Mestrich, Elizabeth Gres, Peter Demay, Katie... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/19/2009 - 6:12pm - 0 comments
  • Circuit Court v. Florida Times-Union
    Date: 01/14/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Denial of Access
    Jurisdiction: Florida
    Publication: Blog
    On January 14, 2010, during the second day of a high-profile murder trial, Circuit Judge L. Page Haddock of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in Duval County, Florida, ordered a reporter for the Florida Times-Union's Jacksonville.com to stop live-blogging the... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/19/2010 - 5:49pm - 0 comments
  • Cisneros v. Sanchez
    Date: 08/24/2005
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed, Retraction Issued, Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    Robert Sanchez lost an election for City Commissioner in Brownsville, Texas, but kept the forum on his campaign website active after the election. Elena Cisneros, the wife of Sanchez's former opponent, sued Sanchez for defamation in Texas state court claiming that pseudonymous... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 2 comments
  • Citadel Security Software v Does 1-5
    Date: 03/16/2005
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Texas
    Publication: Forum
    Citadel Security Software (CDSS), a company that provides "enterprise vulnerability management solutions," sued five "John Doe" defendants who criticized CDSS on a Yahoo! Finance message board focused to the company. On March 16, 2005, CDSS sued the five anonymous posters for defamation and... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/17/2008 - 2:25pm - 0 comments
  • Citizens United v. Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
    Date: 03/10/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
    Publication: Social Network, Website
    On March 10, 2010, a lawyer representing the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United sent a demand letter to Mike McCabe, director of the Madison-based Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.  The letter claimed that Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's "Citizens United Against Citizens... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 03/15/2010 - 3:06pm - 0 comments
  • City of Kirkland v. Sheehan
    Date: 03/27/2001
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Injunction Denied, Injunction Issued, Material Removed
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Washington
    Publication: Website
    City officials in Kirkland, Washington sued William Sheehan and other defendants for publishing personal information about Kirkland police officers on his website, www.justicefiles.org. The website, which was critical of law enforcement, contained substantive political argument but also the names, addresses, dates of... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/28/2009 - 1:33pm - 0 comments
  • City of Memphis v. Does
    Date: 07/10/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Virginia, Tennessee
    Publication: Blog
    The City of Memphis and the Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin filed a petition for pre-litigation discovery in Tennessee state court, seeking the identity of  a number of unknown defendants, including the pseudonymous blog operators of MPD... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/19/2008 - 7:27pm - 0 comments
  • City of Sheboygan v. Reisinger
    Date: 10/19/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
    Publication: Website
    Jennifer Reisinger operates Sheboygan Spirit, a website pertaining to the government and community of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Brat City Web Design, a site promoting her web development business.  Reisinger's business site contained a link to the ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 12/05/2007 - 9:50pm - 0 comments
  • City of West Bend v. Buss
    Date: 11/29/2007
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Withdrawn
    Type: Criminal Investigation
    Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
    Publication: Blog
    James Buss, a high school teacher in Wisconsin, anonymously posted a comment on the Boots and Sabers blog under the name "Observer." In the comment, Buss stated that high teacher salaries made him sick and appeared to praise the Columbine... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/13/2008 - 5:10pm - 0 comments
  • Citywide Sewer & Drain v. Carusone
    Date: 01/30/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Blog
    A New York news station broadcast a report on Citywide Sewer & Drain focusing on customer complaints. Angelo Carusone, who had worked a summer job at Citywide, made comments on his blog under the title, "Citywide Really Is Shittywide." Citywide sued Carusone... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
  • Clem v. Doe
    Date: 08/25/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Kentucky
    Publication: Website
    On August 25, 2008, a Kentucky college student who was kicked out of a mall for wearing a short dress filed suit in Kentucky state court against an anonymous commenter for allegedly posting a defamatory comment about her on a newspaper's website. ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/07/2010 - 7:16pm - 0 comments
  • Clem v. Richmond Register
    Date: 08/25/2008
    Status: Pending
    Disposition:
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: Kentucky
    Publication: Website
    A Kentucky college student who was kicked out of a mall for wearing a short dress issued a subpoena to the Richmond Register seeking the identity of an anonymous poster on the newspaper's website.  The subpoena was issued in connection with a... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/07/2010 - 7:22pm - 0 comments
  • CNN v. Pazienza
    Date: 02/12/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition:
    Type: Disciplinary Action
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Blog
    In mid-February 2008, CNN fired Chez Pazienza, a senior producer for the "American Morning" program. According to Pazienza, CNN fired him because of his personal blog, Deus Ex Malcontent, and because of his blogging for the Huffington... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/28/2008 - 4:27pm - 0 comments
  • Cohen v. Doe
    Date: 08/31/2006
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Injunction Issued, Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Maine
    Publication: Forum
    Alissa Cohen sued Doe for defamation and trade libel in Maine state court after Doe criticized Cohen on various online forums, including www.complaints.com and www.sunfood.com.  Doe allegedly purchased but did not receive food-related items from Cohen's website, www.alissacohen.com.  Cohen... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 10/11/2008 - 8:46am - 0 comments
  • Cohen v. Ford
    Date: 06/02/2000
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Settled (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Blog
    Stephen M. Cohen sued Luke Ford for defamation over Ford's blog coverage of a lawsuit brought against Cohen by another party. The case settled in February 2001. ... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 09/10/2007 - 3:55pm - 0 comments
  • Cohen v. Google (Blogger)
    Date: 01/02/2009
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed, Subpoena Enforced
    Type: Subpoena
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Blog
    In January 2009, Fashion model Liskula Cohen petitioned a New York state court for "pre-action" discovery from Google Inc. (on behalf of its subsidiary Blogger.com), seeking the identity of the anonymous operator of the Skanks in NYC blog.  The blog... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 01/06/2009 - 7:10pm - 0 comments
  • Colin Farrell v. Gonzales
    Date: 01/29/2008
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Material Removed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: New York
    Publication: Blog
    David Gonzales, a freelance writer who blogs on the TheBadandUgly and Read It or Don't, received an email from a "legal representative" for Irish actor Colin Farrell alleging that a post he had written about the actor was defamatory.... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 02/08/2008 - 5:54pm - 0 comments
  • Collins v. Federated Publications, Inc.
    Date: 02/09/2009
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (partial)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: Indiana
    Publication: Social Network, Website
    Timothy Collins, a former student of Purdue University, sued Federated Publications, publisher of the Journal & Courier newspaper, Purdue University, university officials, and others over allegedly defamatory statements in an article published on the newspaper's website, in anonymous comments to... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/21/2010 - 2:07pm - 0 comments
  • Colocation America v. Garga-Richardson (2nd Lawsuit)
    Date: 10/29/2010
    Status: Pending
    Disposition: Dismissed (total)
    Type: Lawsuit
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Website
    In October 2010, Albert Ahdoot and Colocation America, a company providing computer server co-location to companies operating on the Internet, sued Archie Garga-Richardson, the founder and operator of ScamFraudAlert.com, in California. The plaintiffs claimed that Garga-Richardson committed... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 04/29/2011 - 4:16pm - 0 comments
  • Colocation America v. Garga-Richardson (2nd Letter)
    Date: 08/16/2010
    Status: Concluded
    Disposition: Lawsuit Filed
    Type: Correspondence
    Jurisdiction: California
    Publication: Forum
    On August 16, 2010, counsel for Colocation America and Mr. Albert Ahdoot sent a cease-and-desist letter to Archie Garga-Richardson, the founder and operator of ScamFraudAlert.com. ScamFraudAlert.com is a forum site that focuses on alleged Internet scams, security threats, and fraudulent... read full description
    Legal Threat - - 05/03/2011 - 11:47am - 0 comments

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