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Fake Social Media Account by Police Allowed Without Warrant
Keep your friends close, and your Instagram friends even closer. One of your online friends might be the police and a search warrant fis not needed to befriend you on social media. A US District …...
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Defamation in False Online Review
In a case brought by a US law firm in respect of a defamatory allegation on the firm’s Google Maps profile, it was held that the posting of a false online review by an English poster amounted to...
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Former 49er Ray McDonald sues rape accuser for defamation
“Former San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald has gone on the offensive, filing a lawsuit Monday against the woman who accused him of sexual assault in December, as a way to try to clear his...
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Gay Lawyer Takes Stand in Defamation Suit
The gay attorney suing Anapol Schwartz for defamation took the stand Tuesday to outline his departure from the firm and his decision to accept a job at Raynes McCarty… Source:...
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Daily Mail publisher loses challenge to JK Rowling ruling
Associated Newspapers objected to parts of the statement that the author plans to read in open court as part of the settlement of her libel claim Source: www.theguardian.com In California, if a...
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Firefighter pictured in sex scandal article loses libel claims against Daily...
Per the order of a federal judge, the libel lawsuit brought by a Philadelphia firefighter against the New York Daily News earlier this year has been dismissed, though court records indicate he has...
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Court tosses lawyer’s libel suit over ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’
TORONTO – Ontario’s top court has tossed a defamation action by a lawyer over a book in which he is cited as saying he identified with the Mexican bandit from the movie “The Good, The Bad and The...
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Lying blogger ordered to pay $3.5 million in defamation lawsuit |...
A Shelby County, Alabama, blogger, who spent five months in jail before agreeing to remove stories from his website about the son of a former governor, has now been ordered to pay $3.5 million in a...
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James Woods Demands Court Order To ID Twitter User Who Called Him A “Cocaine...
Actor James Woods says a Twitter user who called him a “cocaine addict” has no right to demand anonymity. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.buzzfeed.com The James Woods case presents a good...
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Bill Cosby Sues Beverly Johnson for Defamation
“Bill Cosby filed a lawsuit Monday against supermodel Beverly Johnson, alleging she lied when she said the comedian drugged and tried to rape her at his New York home in the mid-1980s. Cosby’s lawsuit...
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California Prohibits “You Can’t Review Me” Contracts
From my recollection, doctors were the first to try this nonsense. They would slip in a provision in all the intake paperwork, stating that the patient agrees not to post any negative reviews about the...
View ArticleBeing a member of a group won’t give you standing for a defamation claim
Another story illustrating the point I make here over and over, namely, that a statement must accuse you of something before it is defamatory. Today a Federal Court in New York threw out defamation...
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How to Stop Defamation When You Can’t Afford an Attorney
Is there a way to stop Internet defamation when you have limited funds to hire an attorney? Here’s a call I get a few times a week. Someone somewhere has managed to upset someone else, usually over a...
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Yelp Ordered to Remove Defamatory Posts
As I have stated here many times, although wrongdoers have been able to use it as a shield, the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) is an essential statute if we want to live in a country where one can...
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Morris & Stone Case Creates Important Internet Defamation Authority
Morris & Stone is proud to announce that righteous Internet defamation cases will now be easier to prove, due to a Court of Appeal opinion resulting from one of our cases. I was brought in as...
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How to Remove False and Defamatory Glassdoor Reviews
Although founded almost a decade ago, Glassdoor’s defamation problems seem to be a more recent phenomenon. We did not begin receiving calls about defamatory Glassdoor reviews until about two years...
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Proof Positive that You Need a Good Defamation / Anti-SLAPP Attorney
Litigation is never a 100% certainty, as evidenced by the two cases that follow. But an attorney who really knows his or her stuff can certainly mean the difference between victory or defeat. If you...
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You CAN Remove False, Defamatory Reviews from Yelp
A false Yelp review can be devastating to a business. There are a number of factors that vary the impact of a false review, including of course the nature of the false review, and the number of honest,...
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Facebook Postings Can Kill Your Personal Injury Case
Yet another cautionary tale about how the things you post on Facebook can come back to haunt you. On Friday I received a call from a prospective client, wanting to sue her employer. The caller had...
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Another Example of How Facebook Can Kill Your Lawsuit
In today’s cautionary tale, a woman, Nancy Nicolauo, was bitten by a tick, and later began suffering symptoms such as numbness, fatigue and lower back pain. Things got worse, and she eventually had...
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