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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 10/20/2008 - 4:57pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - Stefani Wittenauer - 09/30/2008 - 9:38am - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/28/2007 - 10:32am - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/18/2008 - 5:43pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/13/2008 - 6:15pm - 0 comments
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Date: 08/20/2012
Status: Concluded
Disposition: Default Judgment
Type: Lawsuit
Jurisdiction: Nevada
Publication: Website
Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/09/2013 - 11:34am - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:58pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:55pm - 0 comments
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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,...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 08/08/2008 - 12:46pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/08/2010 - 1:24pm - 0 comments
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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 ...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/03/2008 - 12:14pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 03/27/2008 - 5:12pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 11/10/2008 - 11:24am - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 12/17/2007 - 12:42pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/14/2008 - 3:28pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/10/2007 - 3:59pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 02/28/2008 - 1:22pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 09/15/2008 - 7:33pm - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - Arthur Bright - 08/08/2008 - 11:50am - 0 comments
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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...
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Legal Threat - DMLP Staff - 05/14/2009 - 2:59pm - 0 comments