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Defamation
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Religion Clause
11th Circuit: Shame To Muslim Family From Assault Allegations Allows Woman To Proceed As Jane Doe
In Doe v. Neversome, (11 Cir., July 30, 2020), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that that a Florida federal district court abused its discretion when it refused to…
Texas Anti-Slapp Blog
The Austin COA Crows at Dawn – But this Cock-Up is Far from Over.
By Sean Lemoine
I have literally 30 new TCPA cases sitting in a folder that I could write about, but with the malaise of COVID 19 combined with the statutory change in September…
The Right Coast
Lawyer for Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann threatens CNN and Washington Post | Daily Mail Online
A Kentucky high school student who sued the Washington Post and CNN for portraying him as racist in their coverage of his stand-off with a Native American protester last year…
Drug & Device Law
Can a Blawg Be Liable for Defamation? Not Likely (Whew!)
By Bexis
There but for the grace of [fill in your preferred deity] go we. . . . We’re speaking about Wexler v. Dorsey & Whitney LLP, ___ F. Appx. ___, 2020 WL 3864950 (2d…
A Lawyer's Blog
YELPING VERSUS DEFAMING
According to Wikipedia: "Ambulance chasing, sometimes known as barratry, is a professional slur which refers to a lawyer soliciting for clients at a disaster site. The term "ambulance chasing" comes…
Dig Deeper
eDiscovery Serves to Publicly Air Hollywood Star’s Self-Reputation-Besmirching Text Messages
By M.J. Moye
Text messages, as most everyone knows, are subject to ediscovery, and pretty much everyone these days texts, including Hollywood mega stars. One Hollywood celeb, though, is probably wishing that he…
Dig Deeper
(Allegedly) Defamed Dentist vs. Anonymous Online Review
Google has declared on numerous occasions its commitment to protecting reviewer anonymity. A decision of the Federal Court of Australia earlier this year has poked a major hole in Google’s…
The IP Law Blog
The “Wolf of Wall Street” Defamation Suit – The Risk of an “Inspired By” Character in Movies and TV
By Scott Hervey
The motion picture Wolf of Wall Street was based on a book of the same title written by Jordan Belmont. In the book, Andrew Greene, who was director, general counsel,…
Municipal Minute
No Defamation or Constitutional Violation in Removal of Library Trustee
In September 2017, the village council of Downers Grove removed a library trustee from the library board of trustees because of his comments in a report written and published by…
Socially Aware Blog
Debate over §230 of the CDA rages on; Twitter defeats defamation suit; Booking.com held valid trademark
In a purported attempt to safeguard free speech, President Trump has issued an order “Preventing Online Censorship,” that would eliminate the protections afforded by one of our favorite topics here…