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Defamation
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The Trademark Blog
What Does Franken's Book Say That Fox Is Going After Him Like This? I Can't Wait to Read It.
Here is the complaint in the Fox v. Franken case. Fox says that its star commentator O'Reilly has a distaste for name-calling in political analysis in para. 36. Fox calls…
The Trademark Blog
The Al Franken Book is 17 bucks on Amazon
Best line on the Fox v. Franken suit so far courtesy of Ernie the Attorney: I confess I know nothing about marketing and publicity, but maybe Fox would be better…
California Employment Law Update
Employer’s Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Employee Was Properly Denied
By Tony Oncidi
Du Charme v. IBEW, Local 45, 110 Cal. App. 4th 107 (2003) Frank Du Charme sued the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 45 and Cecil Wynn, the individual…
LawSites
Is it libel to call a lawyer a fixer?
Law.com has an interesting article today from Philadelphia's Legal Intelligencer, Attorney Clears Hurdle in Defamation Action Against ABA. It reports that Philadelphia attorney Richard A. Sprague "has cleared another significant…
Tom Mighell
Liable for Libel?
By Tom Mighell
Last week, the Ninth Circuit held in Batzel v. Smith that website operators cannot be held liable for republishing the defamatory comments of others. Since then, many weblogs have ventured the bold proposition…
The Trademark Blog
Not the Story of My Life
Not trademark law, but the law as to what extent a fictional character may be based on a real person is always of interest. A non-fiction book portrayed, in part,…
California Employment Law Update
Union’s Anti-SLAPP Motion Was Properly Denied
By Tony Oncidi
Rivero v. AFSCME, AFL-CIO, 105 Cal. App. 4th 913 (2003) David Rivero was a supervisor of janitors at the International House at UC Berkeley before his employment was terminated when…
The Trademark Blog
Closing in on Target: Fourth Circuit Internet Defamation Jurisdiction Case
It's the target of the publication's audience, not the target of the published statement. The Fourth Circuit holds that a court in Virginia does not have personal jurisdiction over an…
Tom Mighell
And the walls come tumbling down
By Tom Mighell
I was trying to find some time to read all the articles on this week's decision on jurisdiction for Internet libel, but it's just not there. It's a little scary,…
The Trademark Blog
Lex Loci Delicti
The law of the place of the tort. The allegedly libelous publication by Dow Jones was in Victoria, Australia. The damage to reputation was in Victoria. The law of the…