From Judge Beth Bloom’s order today granting default judgment in O’Leary v. Armstrong: Defendant posted on X Plaintiff’s private cell phone number and encouraged the public to harass Plaintiff, stating “[h]ave you ever wanted to call a real life murderer?! You can NOW! @kevinoleartyv is waiting for your call.” Following the post, Plaintiff began receiving […]
Here’s a short excerpt from the Nov. 2023 Report and Recommendations by Magistrate Judge Christopher D. Baker (E.D. Cal.) in Johnson v. Watkin; the plaintiff is a history professor at Bakersfield College, a California public community college. The opinion is long, so I’ve excerpted it heavily; read the whole thing for more of the legal […]
In England, artist Victoria Culf is suing Watford Borough Council after a council worker falsely claimed Culf was being investigated by police for a hate crime due to her Christian views, which led to her being banned from her own art exhibition at Watford Museum. During a conversatio Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe […]
From Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.) today in Doe v. Fashion Institute of Tech., refusing to reconsider an earlier decision that denied Doe pseudonymity: First, Plaintiff argues that the Court erred in several ways by concluding that the second and third factors [of the Second Circuit pseudonymity test] (risk of retaliation and severity of harm to […]
From today’s decision by Judge Paul Oetken in Lehrman v. Lovo, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.): [Voice-over actors] Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage bring this putative class action against .. Lovo, Inc. … alleging that Lovo used artificial intelligence … to synthesize and sell unauthorized “clones” of their voices…. Ultimately the Court concludes that, for the most part, […]
From today’s order by Judge Myong J. Joun (D. Mass.) in Gino v. President & Fellows of Harvard College: The Data Colada Defendants request sanctions based on Gino’s defamation claims, which alleged that the Defendants falsely accused her of data fabrication in four academic studies. Gino’s suit followed an investigation by Harvard University, which concluded […]
X CEO Linda Yaccarino has become an ex-X CEO. She is stepping down after two years at the helm of Elon Musk’s social media site, formerly known as Twitter, which he purchased in October 2022. Musk hired Yaccarino in June 2023 to run Twitter and rebranded it as X the following month. In her departure […]
From last week’s decision in Ziade v. Abdullah by the Nevada Court of Appeals (Chief Judge Bonnie Bulla and Judges Michael Gibbons and Deborah Westbrook) Ziade, a Las Vegas resident, and … Abdullah, a Canadian citizen residing in California, were in a long distance online relationship for approximately five months before Abdullah relocated to Las […]
From Pecos River Talc LLC v. Emory, decided Tuesday by Magistrate Judge Robert Krask (E.D. Va.): Pecos River Talc LLC … sued defendants, Drs. Theresa Emory, John Maddox, and Richard Kradin, alleging that certain statements they made in an article published in a scientific journal about cosmetic talc, asbestos, and malignant mesothelioma were false. The […]
From Thomas Starkie’s 1813 libel law treatise, pp. 199-200 (some paragraph breaks added): Were every malicious and oppressive act to be considered illegal, the law would be very agreeable to the theorist, but utterly unfit for the practical purposes of society, on account of the infinite perplexity and uncertainty which would occur in distinguishing between […]
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