Defamation
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Defamation, United Kingdom / Great Britain
U.K. No Longer Your One-Stop Shopping Spot for Libel/Defamation Issues?
Well now this would be interesting. Can you imagine living in a world where the United Kingdom wasn’t the worldwide meeting place for pissed off celebrities with no grounds for defamation/libel lawsuits? It could happen. According to reports, Deputy British Prime Minister Nick Clegg is sick of England being a “laughing stock” when it comes […] -
Defamation, Football, Kids, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sports
Lawyers Are Just Hype Men
Tonight America comes together to celebrate its most important holiday. Whether you’re Christian or other, tonight you will plop down on the couch, crack a beer, wait with bated breath for the first commercial break, likely have a heart attack, and definitely beat all holy hell out of your wife. Some say football is America’s […] - Sponsored
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Defamation, Football, Jews, Media and Journalism, Racism, Sports
Dan Snyder, Owner of a Team Named After an Ethnic Slur, Sues Over Perceived Anti-Semitism
This is rich. The owner of the Washington Redskins, Dan Snyder, has sued the Washington City Paper for a column he claims defamed him and used anti-Semitic imagery. That’s right, the man who has famously defended his right to name an entire football team after an ethnic slur is playing the ethnic card because a […]
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Defamation, Facebook, Social Networking Websites
Nevada Lawyer Sues Over Mean Facebook Comments
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unless it involves defamatory Facebook postings and a retaliatory lawsuit. The new CBS show The Defenders has Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell dramatizing and glamorizing the life and work of Las Vegas attorneys. But for the real attorneys working in the tumbleweeds of Nevada, it can be a […] -
Defamation, Privacy, Sports, Women's Issues
Lawsuit of the Weekend: Rah Rah... Whoops.
This story may provide some good fodder for “dumb cheerleader” jokes. Sarah Jones, a high school English teacher and cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals, was understandably upset when a gossip website called TheDirty.com published an article entitled “The Dirty Bengals Cheerleader,” asking, “Why are high school teachers freaks in the sack?” According to Jones’s December […] -
Canada, Defamation, Drinking, Labor / Employment, Parties, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sexism, Sexual Harassment
Partner of the Day, Eh: Canadian Lawyer Sues Two of His Former Associates
Sometimes law firm after-hours parties get pretty wild. The Great Recession didn’t put a damper on one Toronto firm’s celebrations last year. In January 2009, Mathews, Dinsdale & Clarke threw a rager in honor of its annual labour law “moot” competition for Canadian law students. (We mentioned this story briefly in yesterday’s Non-Sequiturs.) After awards […] -
Defamation, Elizabeth Halverson, State Judges
Former Judge Halverson Rolls Back Into the News
On her motorized Rascal scooter. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: A one-time legal assistant to ousted District Judge Elizabeth Halverson won a $50,000 judgment Tuesday in the defamation case she filed against Halverson in 2007. District Judge David Wall on Tuesday ordered Halverson to pay the money and to return files to the assistant, Ileen […] -
Defamation, Football, Sports, Trademarks
More Reservations About Native American Mascots
Legal battles over Native American mascots are being waged in both the professional and college sports arenas. The New York Times reports that the controversy over the Fighting Sioux of the University of North Dakota has gotten more complicated. The National Collegiate Athletic Association advised the school, along with 17 other universities, to change its […] - Sponsored
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Celebrities, Defamation, Gloria Allred, Golf, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sports, Violence
Some Legal Angles on the Tiger Woods Story
We mentioned L’Affaire Tiger Woods in Morning Docket (first three links), but since it was the big story of the long holiday weekend, we thought we’d revisit it in more detail. This story has a number of interesting legal angles. The most thorough coverage appears over at TMZ. Check out these posts, which thrown together […] -
Defamation, Football, Intellectual Property, Native Americans, Sports, Trademarks
The Washington Redskins Controversy: An Interview with Amanda Blackhorse
For most of us, today is Thanksgiving! For a small segment of the population, today is the 2009 National Day of Mourning. The United American Indians of New England describe the day as: An annual tradition since 1970, Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown […] -
Admin, Announcements, Blogging, D. Marvin Jones, Defamation, Free Speech, Law Professors, Lawsuit of the Day, Media and Journalism, Pro Se Litigants
Breaking: Jones v. Minkin Dismissed!!!(Plaintiff voluntarily dismisses lawsuit against ATL.)
Yesterday’s Lawsuit of the Day — Jones v. Minkin, a $44 million lawsuit against yours truly, Above the Law publisher David Minkin, and Dead Horse Media (now known as Breaking Media) — has been voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, University of Miami law professor Donald Jones. There was NO SETTLEMENT in this case. Above the […] -
Blogging, D. Marvin Jones, Defamation, Free Speech, Law Professors, Lawsuit of the Day, Media and Journalism, Pro Se Litigants
Lawsuit of the Day: Jones v. Minkin(Or: Above the Law gets sued!!!)
For the first time in over three years of operation, Above the Law has been sued. We feel the lawsuit has no merit, but we will not comment further on this ongoing litigation. To access the pro se complaint, coverage by other news outlets and blogs, and ATL’s prior posts about Professor Donald Jones, click […] -
AutoAdmit / Xoxohth, Defamation, Free Speech, Rudeness, Technology
AutoAdmit Case Ends Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper
If you were hoping for the AutoAdmit lawsuit to result in courtroom drama, with Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey breaking down in tears on the stand, then we’re sorry to disappoint you. The case has ended, somewhat anticlimactically. Last week, the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their case against the remaining defendants. From the Hartford Courant: Two former […]
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AutoAdmit / Xoxohth, Blogging, Defamation, Free Speech, Hotties, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: Sort of Like the AutoAdmit Case....
But with a hot blonde model as the plaintiff. From our sister site, Fashionista: Liskula Cohen’s modeled for Versace and Armani and landed international Vogue covers, but recently she’s made less fashionable headlines. Last year, a doorman smashed her over the head with a vodka bottle, and this year she’s sued Google to reveal the […] -
Celebrities, Defamation
First Amendment Attorney Martin Garbus helps Perez Hilton out?
Lindsay Lohan is kind of over as far as celebrity gossip goes: no more car accidents, no more sloppy drunk photographs, and in a relatively stable relationship. But now Lohan’s girlfriend, Samantha Ronson, is getting pulled back into the tabloids, and she’s dragging First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus along with her. Martin Garbus prides himself […] -
Defamation, Judge of the Day, Lunacy, Media and Journalism, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge of the Day: Ernest B. Murphy
Back in 2007, Judge Ernest B. Murphy won his libel case case against the Boston Herald. The Herald had reported that Murphy was soft on crime and, well, nobody puts Baby in the corner. But winning just wasn’t enough for Judge Murphy. After he won he sent two threatening letters to Patrick Purcell, publisher of […] -
Defamation, Free Speech, Google / Search Engines, Media and Journalism, Technology
The Google Hit Dilemma(Or: another reason not to name your kid 'Shakespear')
The embarrassing Google hit is one of the great new fears of the modern age. If the number-one Google hit for your name is your work bio, Corporate Challenge race-time results, or nothing at all, consider yourself lucky. You could have something worse, like, “Kashmir Hill. Is that her real name or her porn screen […] -
AutoAdmit / Xoxohth, Defamation, Free Speech, Technology
AutoAdmit Update: AK-47 A Defendant Named :D, Outed
See the links below for more details. Also note this, from Marc Randazza of the Legal Satyricon: For anyone who is curious, I have personally spoken to the University of Texas adjunct who happens to bear the [same name as the formerly anonymous defendant known as :D]. He IS NOT the person in question. I […] -
Barack Obama, Defamation, Eliot Spitzer, Food, Morning Docket, Politics, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 03.12.08
* Spitzer may — or make that will — resign today. [CNN; New York Times] * Obama wins Mississippi, picks up more Texas delegates than Clinton. [CNN] * Gitmo war-crimes tribunal to hear detainee’s case. [MSNBC] * Houses passes proposal to create independent ethics panel. [Washington Post] * Another French trader taken into custody in […]
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Aaron Charney, Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Contests, Defamation, Fabulosity, Hillary Clinton, Hotties, Job Survey, Lawyer of the Day, Loyola Law School, Reader Polls
Featured Survey: ATL Lawyer Of The Year
In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you to submit your nominations for Lawyer of the Year. Today, you get to vote! The nominees, and select comments explaining why, are below: Aaron Charney For both the attention focused, success of action, and for the visibility [he] brought to the secondary issue of […]