Legal Threats Database

legal threats database Welcome to the CMLP's database of legal threats! The database contains lawsuits, cease & desist letters, subpoenas, and other legal threats directed at those who engage in online speech. You can view, search, and comment on every entry in the database. Interested in lawsuits against bloggers? You'll find them on the Lawsuits Against Bloggers page. How about threats involving forum posts and user comments? You'll find those here. You can use our advanced search page to sort the entries by any criterion of your choosing, as well as perform full-text searching of the underlying documents.

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New Threat Entries

  • Lifestyle Lift Holding, Inc. v. NBC 10
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    May 9th, 2008
    Lifestyle Lift Holding, Inc. and LL NJ, Inc. are in the business of performing facelifts and other cosmetic surgery. In September 2006, they sued NBC-Subsidiary (WCAU-TV) (a.k.a. NBC 10), NBC Universal and certain of its affiliates, NBC reporter Lu Ann Cahn, and...
  • Lifestyle Lift Holding, Inc. v. Leonard
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    May 9th, 2008
    In October 2007, Lifetsyle Lift Holding, Inc. sued Justin Leonard and his company Leonard Fitness, Inc. for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and false advertising. Leonard runs the forum website infomercialscams.com, which gives consumers the opportunity to voice their criticisms and...
  • Phillips v. BoroughVENT.com
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    May 8th, 2008
    BoroughVENT.com, an online forum to discuss the Borough of Gettysburg, PA and surrounding region, and one of its adminstrators, Deborah Golden, were the recipients of a complaint filed with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. The complaint, brought by two...
  • Ampersand Publishing v. Santa Barbara Independent
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    May 7th, 2008
    In October 2006, Ampersand Publishing LLC, the company that owns the Santa Barbara News-Press, filed a lawsuit against Santa Barabara Independent, Inc., publisher of the Santa Barbara Independent, another local newspaper. The case arose out of Independent editor Nick Welsh's posting of...
  • Center for Consumer Freedom v. Marion Nestle
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    May 2nd, 2008
    Dr. Marion Nestle, who publishes the blog What To Eat, criticized the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) in a blog post, accusing the CCF of, among other things, receiving its funding from and serving as a mouthpiece for...
  • 2clix v. Wright
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    May 2nd, 2008
    In August 2007, 2Clix Australia sued Simon Wright, the founder of Australian broadband discussion forum Whirlpool, for alleged "injurious falsehood." According to 2Clix, Wright permitted anonymous users of the forum to post unmediated comments, and two threads contained "false and malicious" comments...
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Most Viewed Threat Entries

  • Johnson v. Tucker Max
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    Tucker Max maintains a website detailing his sexual exploits with women. He had a relationship with former Miss Vermont, Katy Johnson, and put the entire story on his website under the title, the "Miss Vermont Story." Johnson sued Max in...
  • Xyience Inc. v. Bergeron
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    Xyience Inc., a manufacturer of energy drinks and supplements, sued Rich Bergeron in Nevada state court over statements posted on his MySpace.com page and website, unlimitedfightnews.com. According to the complaint, Bergeron posted an article to his MySpace page that contained allegations...
  • Snyder v. Phelps
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    2958
    The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist Christian church that contends that God kills soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality and for the presence of gays in the U.S. military. The church operates a number of...
  • Julius Baer Bank and Trust v. Wikileaks
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    2081
    On February 6, 2008, Julius Baer Bank and Trust Company, a Cayman Islands banking entity, filed suit in federal court in California against Wikileaks, which is developing an "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis." ...
  • Save-A-Life Foundation v. Baratz
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    In May 2007, the Save-A-Life Foundation sued three critics of Henry Heimlich and his famous first-aid procedure, the Heimlich maneuver. Among the defendants is Peter Heimlich, Henry's son, who maintains the website "Outmaneuvered." The other defendants are Robert Baratz, an official of...
  • Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. v. Clabuesch
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    1759
    The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company sued David Clabuesch a Michigan probate judge, and his company, ThumbCo, for breach of contract and defamation relating to actions and statements Clabuesch allegedly made concerning an antique car the company sold for him. Barrett-Jackson claims in its...
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