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IP Intelligence
Texas Court Allows Defamation Claim Against Landowner to Proceed
Last Monday, Texas’s Second District Court of Appeals partially affirmed a District Court order allowing Range Resources Corporation’s defamation and business disparagement claims against a landowner to proceed. This is the…
All About Advertising Law
Locked Up Like Lindsay Lohan: Name-Dropping Remains Protected in Art and Music
No blog can really take itself seriously unless it’s written about Lindsay Lohan. Plus our Marketing Department claims she’ll do wonders for our search rankings. Ms. Lohan, in case some…
Inside Global Tech
First Amendment Does Not Protect Hackers’ Identities, NJ Court Holds
The First Amendment does not protect the identities of computer hackers, a New Jersey appellate court held this month. Warren Hospital alleges that two anonymous individuals hacked into its web…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
State Farm Guilty of Defamation
By Chip Merlin
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a $14.5 million dollar defamation verdict against State Farm in State Farm Fire & Casualty Company v. Radcliff.1 State Farm was found guilty of defaming a…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Decision of Interest: Erie and Donald Trump in the Ninth Circuit
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuitdecided Makaeffv. Trump University, __ F.3d __, 2013 WL 1633097, No. 11-55016. As theopinion explains, “California law provides for the pre-trial…
SDNY Blog
Judge Engelmayer Dismisses Case Brought by Legal Secretary Who Discovered Allegedly Defamatory Emails in Boss’s Inbox
In a decision Tuesday, Judge Engelmayer dismissed the complaint of a legal secretary, Valerie Medcalf, who, through her access to the emails of her boss George Walsh, discovered emails in…
Technology and AI
Michigan Court Rejects First Amendment Balancing Test for Online Anonymous Speech
A Michigan appellate court ruled last week that state discovery rules provide adequate safeguards for anonymous online speech. The opinion is a significant deviation from the rulings of other state…
TortsProf Blog
Defamation Claim by Boston Rocker Dismissed
The National Law Journal reports that a Massachusetts trial court has granted summary judgment in a defamation suit brought by Boston rock band founder Donald Scholz against the Boston Herald and…
California Employment Law Update
Employee’s Wrongful Termination And Defamation Claims Were Properly Dismissed
By Tony Oncidi
McGrory v. Applied Signal Tech., 212 Cal. App. 4th 1510 (2013) John McGrory alleged his employment was terminated because he is male and because he participated in his employer's internal…
California Employment Law Update
Sexual Assault Victim’s Motion To Strike Supervisor’s Defamation Claim Was Properly Granted
By Tony Oncidi
Aber v. Comstock, 212 Cal. App. 4th 931 (2013) Lisa Aber sued her employer and two co-employees (Michael Comstock, Aber's supervisor, and James Cioppa) for sexual harassment and sexual battery,…