February 09, 2010

Recent Threats Added to the CMLP Database

NOTE: The information and commentary contained in this database entry are based on court filings and other informational sources that may contain unproven allegations made by the parties. The truthfulness and accuracy of such information is likely to be in dispute.

DeRosa v. Rattanni

Date: 11/20/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Subpoena	Location: Pennsylvania	Publication: Forum

On November 20, 2009, Thomas DeRosa, Chairman of the Forward Township Board of Supervisors, issued a subpoena seeking discovery from Richard S. Rattanni, the operator of the website elizabethboro.com, in order to identify the posters of allegedly defamatory comments on that website. The subpoena...

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DeRosa v. Does

Date: 11/19/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Pennsylvania	Publication: Forum

On November 19, 2009, Thomas DeRosa, Chairman of the Forward Township Board of Supervisors, filed a complaint in the Court of Common Pleas for Allegheny County against two Doe defendants, asserting claims for defamation. According to news reports from the Pittsburg Tribune-Review,...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 02/04/2010 - 1:55pm - 0 comments

Hvide v. Doe

Date: 09/30/1999	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Subpoena Enforced; Withdrawn
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Florida	Publication: Forum

Eric Hvide sued eight anonymous Yahoo and America Online posters for defamation in Florida state court after the posters criticized Hvide's running of Hvide Marine, Inc. The record is sketchy, but it appears the court ordered disclosure of the commenters' identities despite...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 02/03/2010 - 2:03pm - 0 comments

Kindelan v. Hoffman

Date: 11/30/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: Blog

Note: The following is a user-submitted description: Rebecca Hoffman maintains a blog entitled "Here's a Gem," in which she shares her experience with her husband's adventure as an entrepreneur and the lawsuits resulting from claims of breach of contract and...

Legal Threat - 02/01/2010 - 5:01pm - 0 comments

Moore v. Boing Boing

Date: 12/15/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Correspondence	Location: California	Publication: Blog

In December 2009, counsel for Demi Moore sent a demand letter to Boing Boing, in regard to a November 17 Xeni Jardin post titled "Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on 'W' mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?." The...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/28/2010 - 5:54pm - 0 comments

Dane v. Gawker

Date: 09/23/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: California	Publication: Website

On September 23, 2009, Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane and his wife Rebecca Gayheart filed a complaint for copyright infringement against Mark Ebner and various Gawker Media entities in the federal district court for the Central District of California. According to the Complaint,...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/28/2010 - 4:09pm - 0 comments

Moore v. Jezebel.com

Date: 12/15/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Correspondence	Location: California	Publication: Blog

In December 2009, counsel for Demi Moore sent a demand letter to Anna Holmes, Editor-In-Chief of Jezebel.com, in regard to a Jezebel post from November that speculated about whether Moore's cover photo for W Magazine had been photoshopped...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/28/2010 - 5:49pm - 0 comments

Stone v. Hipcheck16

Date: 04/01/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: Subpoena Enforced
Type: Subpoena	Location: Illinois	Publication: Website

In November 2009, an Illinois Circuit Court judge ruled that Buffalo Grove Village Trustee Lisa Stone was entitled to pre-suit discovery of the identity of "Hipcheck16," an anonymous commenter who allegedly defamed her son in the comments section of a...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/26/2010 - 7:33pm - 0 comments

Vision Media TV Group v. Forte

Date: 03/09/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Florida	Publication: Forum

In February 2009, Vision Media TV, a company that makes video segments that advertise nonprofit companies, sued Julia Forte, who runs the website 800Notes, a forum site on which members of the public can discuss telemarketing companies and practices. Vision...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/27/2010 - 4:44pm - 0 comments

Conde Nast v. Does

Date: 12/17/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: New York	Publication: Blog; Social Network; Website

On December 17, 2009, Conde Nast filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against unknown Doe defendants asserting claims for copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, and violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to the Complaint, sometime...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/22/2010 - 4:03pm - 0 comments

Levinson Axelrod v. Heyburn

Date: 11/04/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: ; Injunction Issued
Type: Lawsuit	Location: New Jersey	Publication: Blog

In November 2009, Levinson Axelrod, a New Jersey law firm, sued its former associate Edward Harrington Heyburn and his law firm over a gripe site Heyburn operated at www.levinsonaxelrod.net and later http://levinsonaxelrodreallysucks.com/. The complaint included claims for trademark infringement and dilution, violation...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/20/2010 - 6:43pm - 0 comments

Peabody Energy Corporation v. DeSmet

Date: 01/06/2010	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Correspondence	Location:	Publication: Website

On January 6, 2010, Peabody Energy Corporation sent a demand letter to Brian DeSmit, an environmental activist who operates a website at http://cleancoalwustl.org/. Peabody is part of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization (CCCU) with Washington University, which funds research efforts to...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/20/2010 - 5:27pm - 0 comments

Massachusetts v. Peyton

Date: 12/01/2007	Status: Concluded	Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Criminal Charge	Location: Massachusetts	Publication:

In December 2007, Massachusetts authorities charged documentary filmmaker and citizen journalist Emily Peyton with violating Massachusetts wiretapping law after she videoptaped police arresting an antiwar protester in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The ACLU represented Ms. Peyton, and the charges against her were...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/19/2010 - 6:23pm - 0 comments

Circuit Court v. Florida Times-Union

Date: 01/14/2010	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Denial of Access	Location: Florida	Publication: Blog

On January 14, 2010, during the second day of a high-profile murder trial, Circuit Judge L. Page Haddock of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in Duval County, Florida, ordered a reporter for the Florida Times-Union's Jacksonville.com to stop live-blogging the...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/21/2010 - 6:27pm - 0 comments

Szukalski v. Frey

Date: 01/09/2010	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Correspondence	Location: California	Publication: Blog

Ted Szukalski, an Australian photographer, sent blogger Patrick Frey of Patterico's Pontifications what purported to be a DMCA takedown notice on January 9, 2010. The takedown notice complained about Frey's blog post that reproduced and commented on a photoshopped...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/14/2010 - 2:48pm - 0 comments

Grayson v Langley

Date: 12/15/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Other	Location: Florida	Publication: Website

Representative Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation of Angie G. Langley for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1001 by falsely representing to the Federal Elections Commission that her PAC "supports or...

Legal Threat - 01/12/2010 - 5:41pm - 0 comments

Castaldi v. Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP

Date: 07/02/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: Material Removed
Type: Lawsuit	Location: New York	Publication: Website

In July 2009, Marc Castaldi, a real estate developer, brought a defamation lawsuit in New York state court against Goetz Fitzpatrick, LLP, after he discovered LegalLawComplaints.com (no longer available), which linked to documents related to legal claims involving Castaldi or his...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/15/2010 - 1:58pm - 0 comments

United States v. Madison

Date: 09/24/2009	Status: Pending	Disposition: Withdrawn
Type: Criminal Charge	Location: New York; Pennsylvania	Publication: Micro-blog

Elliott Madison (also spelled as Elliot Madison), along with Michael Wallschlaeger, was arrested by the Pennsylvania state police after using Twitter messages to relay information from police scanners and maps to protestors of the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. They were charged with...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/12/2010 - 4:55pm - 0 comments

Clem v. Richmond Register

Date: 08/25/2008	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Subpoena	Location: Kentucky	Publication: Website

A Kentucky college student who was kicked out of a mall for wearing a short dress issued a subpoena to the Richmond Register seeking the identity of an anonymous poster on the newspaper's website. The subpoena was issued in connection with a...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/07/2010 - 7:26pm - 0 comments

Clem v. Doe

Date: 08/25/2008	Status: Pending	Disposition: n/a
Type: Lawsuit	Location: Kentucky	Publication: Website

On August 25, 2008, a Kentucky college student who was kicked out of a mall for wearing a short dress filed suit in Kentucky state court against an anonymous commenter for allegedly posting a defamatory comment about her on a newspaper's website. ...

Legal Threat - CMLP Staff - 01/07/2010 - 7:25pm - 0 comments

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Recent Threats Added to the CMLP Database

DeRosa v. Rattanni

DeRosa v. Does

Hvide v. Doe

Kindelan v. Hoffman

Moore v. Boing Boing

Dane v. Gawker

Moore v. Jezebel.com

Stone v. Hipcheck16

Vision Media TV Group v. Forte

Conde Nast v. Does

Levinson Axelrod v. Heyburn

Peabody Energy Corporation v. DeSmet

Massachusetts v. Peyton

Circuit Court v. Florida Times-Union

Szukalski v. Frey

Grayson v Langley

Castaldi v. Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP

United States v. Madison

Clem v. Richmond Register

Clem v. Doe

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