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Media Law Prof Blog
Rodney Smolla On IMS Health Inc. v. Ayotte
Rodney Smolla, Dean of Washington & Lee Law School, analyzes the IMS Health Inc. v. Ayotte case for Legal Times here. Here's a page on the case from the Electronic Privacy…
Media Law Prof Blog
Indonesian Supreme Court Rules For Time Magazine in Suharto Defamation Appeal
Time Magazine has won a reversal of the defamation verdict against it in the Suharto case. The Indonesian Supreme Court reversed its own 2007 ruling, finding that statements in Time's…
Media Law Prof Blog
Subpoenas, ISPs, Anonymous Posters, and Public and Private Plaintiffs In Defamation Suits
Jason C. Miller, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Law School, has published Who's Exposing John Doe? Distinguishing Between Public and Private Figure Plaintiffs in Subpoenas to ISPs in Anonymous Online…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Defamation Suits Rise?
Paul Secunda sends us word of the National Law Journal article out today, Workplace Defamation Suits Rise. Here's the thesis:Defamation lawsuits are on the rise in the workplace as employees…
Media Law Prof Blog
Appellate Court Reverses Trial Court; Suggests Test For Identification of Anonymous Posters In Defamation Action
In Independent Newspapers v. Brodie, the appellate court ruled that the trial judge abused his discretion when he ordered the defendants to identify anonymous posters in an Internet forum pursuant…
TortsProf Blog
Another “Douchebag” Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed
A book, tastefully entitled "Hot Chicks with Douchebags," featured, well, pictures of what the authors deemed to fit that description. Not surprisingly, people identified as the latter took offense; at…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
Twitter Comments Can Land Businesses in Court
By Aaron Morris
Twitter comments (along with others) have now become the basis for an Internet defamation lawsuit. Courtney Love, always a class act, has been posting “tweets” about fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, also known…
Media Law Prof Blog
Max Mosley Files Lawsuit Against News of the World For Defamation
Max Mosley has filed another lawsuit, this time a defamation suit against the tabloid News of the World. He won an invasion of privacy suit last year against the same paper…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Truth is the Best Defense, They Say – But Maybe Not in Massachusetts
The above maxim is so often repeated that it is taken as true in all cases. But chapter 231, section 92 of the Massachusetts General Laws says otherwise, according to…
Media Law Prof Blog
Hilden On Anonymous Speech In Defamation Cases
Julie Hilden discusses a Maryland ruling that sets forth rules for the unmasking of anonymous online posters in defamation cases and calls for Congress to settle the debate.