The Girl in the Red Bikini — A Facebook Tale
I present now a fascinating case that serves to illustrate a couple of points about Internet defamation. We’ll call this one the Girl in the Red Bikini. Enter the Fayette County School District in...
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Morris & Stone Wins $1.5 Million for Internet Defamation Victims
In this case, we represented a business and the individual who owns that business. The defendant, a medical doctor named Pankaj Karan, was starting his own business, MDTelexchange, and traveled to an...
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Can the Dead Be Defamed?
I don’t receive these calls very often, but they are heart wrenching when I do. I have received multiple calls over the years arising from television portrayals of deceased people. They typically arise...
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Can a Court Order Someone Not to Defame You?
I get many calls from victims of Internet defamation who want me to go to court and get an order to stop the defamation. In other words, they want a court order that stops someone from speaking or...
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How Not to Write a Yelp Review
Picture a typical fight on the playground at an elementary school. One child gets mad at another because she lost at tetherball, so she screams, “I don’t like you and nobody else does either!” It’s...
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C.A. Says Ex-Employee’s Settlement Demand Was Extortion
Settlement Demand Was Extortion and Not Protected by Anti-SLAPP Statute A fired worker who sued his ex-employer for defamation and wrongful termination committed extortion when he threatened to...
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Court Says That Tweeting Someone Is ‘F**king Crazy’ Is Not Libelous | Techdirt
There have been a number of libel cases popping up over the past few years where random insults on Twitter are turned into full blown court cases. Tragically, these cases have picked up the “twibel”...
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Why Your Online Content Needs Both Social and Search Optimization
“While many marketers will debate what comes first (content vs. social media vs. SEO) the most practical approach is to use the tactics necessary for your target audience in order to ‘be the best...
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Federal court applies Texas anti-SLAPP statute for the first time, confirming...
“In a major boost to the Texas anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation (anti-SLAPP) statute, a federal court judge granted a South Texas television’s anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss, applying...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal Upholds Denial of Anti-SLAPP Motion and Allows Suit Over Drug...
“A woman who claims she suffered total blindness and other deleterious effects as a result of taking an anti-epilepsy drug can sue the distributor of a monograph she claims understated the drug’s...
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What to Consider Before You Post a Review to a Consumer Rating Website
(Credit: Getty Images) When Travis Hartinger found his dream home in Chicago, only one thing was missing. “We needed to update the kitchen,” said Hartinger, who works in apartment sales and lives with...
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Bitcoin Extortion Letters Threaten Pizza Restaurants with Yelp Libel
Pizza restaurant owners in America have been bombarded with letters threatening them with bad online publicity including bad reviews on sites such as Yelp, as well as physical damage such as food...
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Cooley Law School loses defamation suit against New York law firm
Cooley Law School has lost an appeal in their defamation lawsuit against a law firm that posted criticism of the school’s reporting of student debt on a popular law school message board. The school...
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Sleeping Fan Sues New York Yankees, MLB, ESPN for Defamation
Andrew Rector proved today that you really can sue anyone – even MLB, ESPN or the New York Yankees – for just about anything. Source: www.rantsports.com Clients often call and say, “can this person...
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Jones Day Threatens SLAPP Suit Against Detroit-Area Blogger
Jones Day, the third largest law firm on the planet, is focusing their weighty legal acumen and collective wrath upon the head of one lone Detroit-area blogger who dared to poke serious fun at their...
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Glenn Beck’s audacious defense against Boston Marathon bombings defamation suit
“Broadcaster Glenn Beck, formerly of Fox News, was nonetheless suspicious of Alharbi. He thought the Obama administration was hiding Alharbi’s involvement. So three weeks later, Beck urged the...
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Court of Appeals upholds $14.5 million defamation verdict against State Farm...
The largest defamation verdict in Indiana history — more than $14.5 million awarded to a contractor who claimed State Farm Fire & Casualty ruined his business and reputation — has been upheld by...
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Richmond Restaurant Encourages Bad Yelp Reviews
Botto Bistro in Richmond is not very concerned about its Yelp rating. In fact, in an effort to undermine the reliability of its Yelp page, the five-year-old Italian restaurant is on a mission to...
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Google has free speech right in search results, court confirms
A San Francisco court ruled last week that Google has the right to arrange its search results as it pleases, which confirms the company’s long-held view, while underscoring the stark difference in how...
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‘Revenge Porn’ Law Sees First Conviction In California
A man who posted nude photos of his ex-girlfriend without her consent on her employer’s Facebook page is the first person to be convicted under California’s “revenge porn” law, the Los Angeles City...
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