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A Massachusetts Nader for a Florida Gore? Deal.
Say you liked Gore in 2000 for President, but knew he didn’t need any help to win in your home state of Massachusetts. Instead, as the polls likely indicated at the time, he could have used your help...
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Online Innovation attracts Offline Litigation
I am certainly not the first person to observe the current relationship between the launch of an innovative website (be it a VC-funded start-up or a rage-inspired, spare time project) and litigation....
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Mess with the IRS? Online or offline, First Amendment protections are not...
An article in today’s New York Times highlights a federal court injunction entered earlier this month, pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, against entities that operate a website accused of posting...
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Court: First Amendment bars Ohio law intended to protect minors online
Declan McCullagh of “the iconoclast” blog writes about a decision issued earlier this week by an Ohio federal district judge, ruling that a state law purporting to protect children online violates the...
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Section 230 protects search engine results, First Amendment inapplicable to...
Last year William E. Murawski tried to get on the ballot as a candidate for Governor of New York. However he was eventually notified that his petition had been rejected for failure to satisfy a...
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First Amendment Challenge to Child Online Protection Act
Earlier this year Judge Reed of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the Child Online Protection Act (“COPA”) is facially violative of the First and Fifth Amendments, and permanently...
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Court dismisses Avvo.com class action lawsuit
Yesterday District Judge Lasnik of the Western District of Washington granted Avvo.com’s motion to dismiss the class action complaint filed against the site earlier this year, ruling that the...
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Developments in Wikileaks.org lawsuit
I finally got around to looking over a New York Times article that my law partner Ron Teeple recently shared with me. The article describes, essentially, as inept, an attempt earlier this month by U.S....
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Wikileaks updates
Here are two up to the minute posts, one at Declan McCullagh’s “the iconoclast” blog, the other at Wired’s Threat Level blog, both indicating that wikileaks.org will soon be back online. I may update...
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Victory for ZeroBrokerFees.com in New Hampshire
Yesterday Magistrate Judge James Muirhead ruled in favor of ZeroBrokerFees.com in the website’s suit challenging the applicability of the New Hampshire Real Estate Practice Act – specifically the...
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