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Paul Levy
Cyberlitigator on free speech issues at Public Citizen
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Cobb County School District Tries Bogus Trademark Claims to Suppress Anti-Racist Organizing
Posted Jun 4, 2021 at CL&P Blog
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Landlord Sues Activists for Emotional Distress Damages For Telling Tenants about Eviction Moratoria
by Paul Alan Levy When Keep Pushing, a St. Louis community organization devoted to protecting the unhoused, went door-to-door to speak to tenants facing eviction orders and hand out a flyer about their rights under the CDC eviction moratorium, one... Continue reading
Posted May 21, 2021 at CL&P Blog
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When consumers chime in anonymously on a dispute between a business and one of its customers
by Paul Alan Levy Our latest case about the right to speak anonymously is in federal court in Chicago, flowing from a dispute between a prominent vlogger named Cristina Villegas and a plastic surgeon named David Shifrin who, Villegas complained,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2021 at CL&P Blog
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Weak Maryland anti-SLAPP law enables noisy bar to preserve its liquor license
by Paul Alan Levy Last month, a Fells Point restaurant was able to use an apparently baseless threat of defamation litigation to secure a vote renewing its liquor license by the liquor control board despite considerable neighborhood complaints. Baltimore attorney... Continue reading
Posted Feb 1, 2021 at CL&P Blog
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District Court Denies Request for Injunction Compelling Amazon to Host Parler
by Paul Alan Levy In a decision issued his afternoon, Judge Barbara Rothstein has denied a motion by the infamous web site Parler seeking a preliminary injunction compelling Amazon to reverse its decision to terminate its hosting of Parler's web... Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2021 at CL&P Blog
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Decision breathes some life into Maryland’s weak anti-SLAPP statute
by Paul Alan Levy Although Maryland was one of the first states to adopt an anti-SLAPP law, its weaknesses have become apparent over the years as other states have adopted stronger protections against suits brought to suppress free speech. Two... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Phony IP claims advanced to block Medicare pricing transparency
by Paul Alan Levy A couple of months ago, South Carolina lawyer B. Craig Killough advanced vague intellectual property claims in objecting to a blog post by a California health policy expert who commented on some aspects of the pricing... Continue reading
Posted Nov 25, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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New York adopts strong anti-SLAPP statute
by Paul Alan Levy With a signature last week from Governor Cuomo, New York has become the latest state to enact a strong anti-SLAPP law. Addressing flaws that came to the fore in our recent defense of Richard Robbins, the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Virginia Search Warrant Seeking to Identify Peaceful Protestors
by Paul Alan Levy Yesterday, we filed a motion to quash a search warrant seeking to obtain from Facebook the confidential files of an activist group that has been protesting the refusal of Virginia authorities to step in to protect... Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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AC Transit Counsel Goes from Bad to Worse
by Paul Alan Levy Last week I explained the many fallacies in a contention by Jill Sprague, General Counsel of the Alameda-Contra Costa County Transit District, that Victoria Fierce, a candidate for election to the ACT Transit Board of Directors,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Bay Area Transit District Attacks Candidate For Showing Its Logo
Posted Sep 24, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Why is Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Trying to Suppress Adverse Opinions by Issuing Frivolous Defamation Threats?
Over the past several months, I have posted a number of articles about the campaign of intimidating copyright demand letters from Mathew Higbee, who tries to extract money from individuals, nonprofits and small businesses by threatening to file frivolous copyright... Continue reading
Posted Sep 8, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Further pursuit of trolling by Higbee and Associates
by Paul Alan Levy In past blog posts, I have discussed our efforts to persuade the copyright enforcement law firm headed by Mathew Higbee to concentrate its efforts to pursue copyright infringement claims on behalf of its photographer clients on... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Court Denies Injunction to Enforce the Trump Family Nondisclosure Agreement
by Paul Alan Levy The New York state trial judge who initially granted a temporary restraining order against both Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster declined late today to extend that order into a preliminary injunction. Faced with a welter... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Effort to Suppress Trump Niece's Book Shows the Need to Construe NDA's Narrowly
by Paul Alan Levy The lawsuit filed by Robert Trump against his niece, Mary Trump, seeking to block her from publishing a book that apparently has several damning facts to disclose about Robert’s brother, and Mary Trump’s uncle, our Dear... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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A Shot Across the Bow for Copyright Trolls: Forcing Higbee Clients to Pay for Frivolous Demand Letters and Intimidation Tactics
Posted Jun 29, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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The copyrighted demand letter, redux
Posted Jun 22, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Can ProctorU Be Trusted With Students' Personal Data?
Posted Mar 25, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Uncovering the land-deal details that Mulvaney's lawyers are hiding
Over the past couple of years, there has been a fair amount of controversy about the role played by Trump Administration official Mick Mulvaney in a land deal gone bad and his efforts to manipulate the law to protect himself... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Libel tourism in Virginia again used to seek to identify anonymous Twitter users
Late last year, I wrote about an abusive subpoena that California Congressman Devin Nunes was pursuing in Virginia state court, seeking to identify the owner of a satirical Twitter account that makes fun of Nunes, referring to his family history... Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2020 at CL&P Blog
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Can Devin Dodge Dendrite to Doxx and Damage Devin’s Cow?
by Paul Alan Levy In pursuit of his frivolous libel suit against Devin Nunes’ Cow and other defendants in Henrico County, Virginia, Congressman Devin Nunes has served subpoenas on Twitter, on a local political consultant, and on a Richmond law... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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How Much Should Mathew Higbee’s Targets Pay to Get Him Off Their Backs?
by Paul Alan Levy Because I have written a few pieces about the excesses of the copyright enforcement campaign conducted by Mathew Higbee and his law firm, Higbee and Associates, for nearly a year now I have been getting a... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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DMCA Takedown of Trump Video about Biden: DMCA-abuse silly season begins again
by Paul Alan Levy It always happens during the presidential election season. This year, a bogus DMCA takedown was aimed at a video posted to Twitter by Donald Trump. Promoting his wild conspiracy theories about potential election opponent Joseph Biden,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 4, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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May a company get an injunction to block a defendant from invoking the Streisand Effect?
by Paul Alan Levy The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently upheld the rights of litigants to use public pressure to discourage companies from suing them. The issue arose in Bank of Hope v. Chon, when... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Moral Rights and Copyright Claims about Che Guevara Parodies
Posted Sep 19, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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