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Defamation
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Alabama Employment Law Report
THE RISKS OF PROVIDING REFERENCES FOR CURRENT OR EX EMPLOYEES
Recently, Cindy F. Crawford and Jennifer Nycz-Conner wrote an article in the Birmingham Business Journal titled "Reading References". The article dealt with some of the problems with giving references, and…
The Trademark Blog
$60,000 For Footage Of Madoff On A Yacht – Fox News Sued
Plaintiff takes video footage of Madoff on a yacht in 2003. Lets Fox News show it for a bit for $10,000. Fox exceeds the license period, plaintiff complaints, Fox pays…
Media Law Prof Blog
Argentina Considering Decriminalization of Defamation
Argentina is considering a bill to decriminalize libel and slander. The President announced the move while welcoming the arrival of a delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, headed…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
D.C. and New York Courts Set Forth Differing Standards for Unmasking Anonymous Speakers
Within four days of each other, courts in D.C. and New York issued opinions setting forth the standard necessary to compel the discovery of the identity of anonymous speakers in…
clinicians with not enough to do
Calling Someone Homosexual Is Not Defamation Per Se, Judge Rules in Suit by Anna Nicole Smith Lawyer
By Minna Kotkin
Mark HamblettNew York Law Journal A statement that someone is a homosexual is not defamation per se in New York state, a federal judge has ruled. Southern District of New…
Media Law Prof Blog
No Laughing Matter
Comedian Sunda Croonquist and her in-laws are facing off in court on September 8 over the entertainer's routine, which features lines about the family. The in-laws don't like them, characterizing…
Tilting the Scales
When is a Tweet Not So Sweet?
By Jamie Ribman
Experiencing a malaise from mold, allergy-ridden Jayda Byrd believed that her apartment was infested with the filthy fungus. Unfortunately, Jayda’s landlord Sylvester ignored her pleas for deliverance from the mold.…
AdLaw By Request®
Secrecy and Blogging – When the Two Don’t Mix
By Erin Bailey
Has blogging made critics out of us all? Maybe so, but we still have to watch what we say as illustrated in a recent New York case, Cohen v. Google/Blogger.com. Fashion model…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
No Special Rules for Internet Defamation, Says New York Judge
If you refer to a professional model a "skank" and a "ho," that's defamation, not mere opinion or hyperbole, and it is no less defamatory for having been said on…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
Godaddy.com Named in Action by Attorney Still Unfamiliar with Section 230
By Aaron Morris
It seems like every few weeks I have to rail against a lawsuit I read about, wherein the attorney representing the plaintiff brings an action that is clearly barred by…