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The Trademark Blog
4th Circuit: Can State Courts Decide What Might Be Lanham Act Claims?
Defendant sues plaintiff in Virginia state court for defamation and 'common law' trademark infringement. It is contested whether a Lanham Act claim was made. Plaintiff brings DJ action in fed.…
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Oprah Winfrey Settles Defamation Suit Against Her
Oprah Winfrey and the former headmistress of the South African girls' school she founded have agreed to an out of court settlement, and the defamation suit Nomvuyo Mzamane filed against…
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Tweeting Defamation
Leslie Yalof Garfield, Pace University School of Law, has published Birds of a Feather: Libel and Slander in the Age of Twitter. Here is the abstract. This article focuses on the…
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Judge Lifts TRO On Giraffe Attack Story
A Louisiana trial judge has decided that that a website's story about a fictional giraffe attack at the Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, Louisiana, is satire and thus protected speech, even…
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Scholar Sues In French Courts Over Book Review
The Times Higher Education reports that a dispute between two scholars will proceed to trial after one has refused to remove a negative review of the other's book. Dr. Joseph Weiler…
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Tennis Pro Sues Paper For Derogatory Statements About His Playing
Robert Dee is suing the Daily Telegraph for labelling him the "World's Worst" tennis player. Mr. Dee says the newspaper's statements suggest "that he unreasonably and unrealistically persists in a…
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Indonesian Teen Gets Seventy Five Day Suspended Sentence In Facebook Defamation Case
An Indonesian court has handed down a 75-day suspended jail sentence to a teenager for defaming another woman on Facebook. The defendant called the first woman "promiscuous and overweight." Their…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
Sometimes You Can Talk Your Way Out of Litigation
By Aaron Morris
A call I received yesterday illustrated a common mistake made by business owners; one that I want to pass along so you can avoid making the same mistake. First let…
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Tenth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Defamation Suit Against Novelist John Grisham, Co-Defendants
The 10th Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a defamation suit against John Grisham and his co-defendants brought by a district attorney, a police officer, and a criminologist who were…
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Dominique de Villepin Acquitted
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has been acquitted of defamation charges arising out of the "Clearstream" scandal. He was accused of slandering current French President and former Minister of…