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National Freedom of Information Coalition to Create FOI Litigation Fund With...
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reports that the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) has received a $2 million, three-year grant from the John S. and James L. Knight...
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Supreme Court Blocks Video Streaming of Prop 8 Trial
This afternoon, the Supreme Court put the final kibosh on video streaming of the Prop 8 trial to five federal courthouses around the nation. The Court stayed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's order...
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Landlord's Defamation Suit Against Tenant Over Moldy Apartment Tweet Dismissed
Andrew Wang of Chicago Breaking Newsreports that an Illinois judge has dismissed Horizon Realty Group's defamation lawsuit against Amanda Bonnen. Surely you remember this gem from last summer? The...
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Lenz v. Universal Music: Court Limits Damages Recoverable for Bogus Takedowns
Last week, federal district judge Jeremy Fogel issued a technical but important decision in Stephanie Lenz's lawsuit against Universal Music over the "Let's Go Crazy" dancing baby takedown. As Eric...
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CMLP and Cyberlaw Clinic Call On Illinois Supreme Court to Preserve Broad...
With the help of Harvard Law School'sCyberlaw Clinic, CMLP and a coalition of media and advocacy organizations submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Illinois Supreme Court this week, urging the...
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Pennsylvania Court Refuses to Unmask News Website Commenters
Thomas O'Toole at TechLaw points us to an anonymous speech decision issued last week by a federal court in Pennsylvania. In McVicker v. King, William McVicker subpoenaed Trib Total Media, publisher...
View ArticleSupreme Court Grants Cert. in Snyder v. Phelps
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Snyder v. Phelps, the funeral picketing "God Hates Fags" case involving the kooky Phelpsian Westboro Baptist Church. Albert Snyder, the father of a U.S....
View ArticleNYU Law Professor Charged With Criminal Libel in French Court for Refusing to...
Manyothersalreadyhavewrittenabout the worrisome case of Professor Weiler, an NYU law professor who is being haled before a French criminal court to answer for the "crime" of hosting an academic book...
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Science Journalist Simon Singh Drops Guardian Column to Fight Libel Suit...
Science journalist Simon Singh announced on Friday that he is giving up his Guardian column to devote his time and energy to fighting the British Chiropractic Association's libel lawsuit against him...
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Fake Giraffe Update: Louisiana Court Sides With Satirical Website
Nicholas Brilleaux, publisher of Hammond Action News, got a big victory yesterday when a Louisiana judge dissolved an order prohibiting him from posting a satirical news story about a fictional giraffe...
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"Fred Ross" Files Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Patterson City Attorney
A couple of weeks ago, my good friend and all-around First Amendment bad ass Marc Randazza called on a bunch of law bloggers to make March "Anti-SLAPP Month" in honor of Congressman Steve Cohen...
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Barclays v. TheFlyOnTheWall.com: Hot News Doctrine Alive and Kicking; Will...
In 2003, prolific legal scholar and 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner published a law review article entitled "Misappropriation: A Dirge," which discussed—among other things—the continued viability of...
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Brazil Fines Google Over Dirty Jokes on Orkut; Brazilian Lawyers Weigh In
Techdirt first drew our attention to Google's recentlegaltroubles in Brazil over its Orkut social networking site (which, as Mike Masnick says, is—mysteriously—only popular in Brazil). The case has...
View ArticleGoldsmith and Lessig: ACTA Raises "Serious Constitutional Questions"
Harvard Law School professors Jack Goldsmith and Lawrence Lessig published an opinion piece today in the Washington Post, in which they lay out the serious constitutional concerns surrounding the...
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Lost and Found: California Law and the Next Generation iPhone
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few days, you've heard that a newfangled iPhone mysteriously turned up in a fancy beer bar in Redwood City, California, and photos of it ended up on...
View ArticleBreaking News: Dow Jones Files "Hot News" Case Against Briefing.com
A Dow Jones press release on BusinessWire announces that the financial media giant filed a lawsuit today against Briefing.com, alleging that the subscription-based financial site misappropriated its...
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CMLP Updates Legal Guide Pages on Protections for Anonymous Speech
Today, CMLP published extensive updates to its legal guide pages on the legal protections for anonymous and pseudonymous speech on the Internet. We overhauled the general page on First Amendment...
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Police Seize Gizmodo Reporter's Computers Over iPhone 4 Leak
Gizmodo announced this afternoon that California police seized computers and servers from the home of its reporter/editor Jason Chen on Friday night. They've posted the search warrant, Gawker C.O.O....
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New Hampshire Supreme Court Rules Website Covered By State Reporter's Privilege
This morning, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire handed down an important decision holding that a mortgage industry website, The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, is entitled to protection under the...
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Bordentown Mayor James Lynch Seeks to Shut Down BordenTownMayorReallySucks.com
From the Trentonian comes a wild story about the mayor of a New Jersey town pushing through a resolution "demanding the immediate termination of a 'malicious' website called...
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