Federal appeals court orders reconsideration of Rosetta Stone's trademark...
You-Jin Han News April 10, 2012The U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., (4th Cir.) ordered a lower court yesterday to reconsider several of Rosetta Stone’s claims against Google over the search...
View ArticleWebsite with links to infringing videos does not violate copyright laws,...
Amanda Simmons News August 3, 2012A social media website on which users have provided links to copyrighted videos from third-party servers has not itself violated copyright laws, a federal court ruled...
View ArticleTech companies in lawsuit must identify paid journalists and bloggers,...
Amanda Simmons News August 15, 2012Media advocates are concerned about a federal court order that compels two technology companies involved in a drawn-out patent infringement lawsuit to disclose the...
View ArticleTwitter faces looming deadline on court order to reveal user's information
Lilly Chapa News September 13, 2012After a state appellate court earlier this week denied Twitter's request to stay the proceedings, lawyers for the social networking company argued that disclosing an...
View ArticleTwitter hands over subpoenaed records in Occupy Wall Street prosecution
Lilly Chapa News September 14, 2012Twitter complied today with a court order to hand over to New York prosecutors an Occupy Wall Street protester’s tweets and subscriber information. 12558 read more
View ArticleOWS protester argues that First and Fourth Amendments apply to tweets
Lilly Chapa News October 9, 2012An Occupy Wall Street protester is challenging a court’s decision requiring his tweets to be handed over to New York prosecutors, arguing that his First and Fourth...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court allows live streaming, tweeting from state courtrooms
Lilly Chapa News November 8, 2012An amendment to Kansas court rules now lets journalists use laptops and cell phones to report from the courtroom.Reporters still need permission from the presiding...
View ArticleGoogle's latest transparency report shows government surveillance on the rise...
Lilly Chapa News November 19, 2012Paula Broadwell isn’t the only person whose Gmail messages were read by government officials – Google received almost 8,000 e-mail access requests from U.S. state and...
View ArticleBusinessman can pursue defamation suit without showing proof of monetary...
Lilly Chapa News December 14, 2012A man accused of throwing a severed horse head in a local politician's pool does not have to prove monetary loss to pursue a defamation lawsuit against his online...
View ArticleVirginia Supreme Court reverses injunction against online commenter
Jack Komperda News January 4, 2013A Virginia woman being sued by her home contractor for libel won't have to remove negative comments she posted on Internet review sites about him, the Virginia Supreme...
View ArticleSecret surveillance court's ruling paves the way for public disclosure of...
Rob Tricchinelli News July 16, 2013An order Monday from the United States’ secret surveillance court has brought several documents a step closer to being made public, after a disclosure request from...
View ArticleCompany argues for release of Yelp posters' identity in Virginia appellate court
Latara Appleby News October 9, 2013A panel of judges in Alexandria, Va., heard an appeal today that will determine whether Yelp will have to reveal identifying information of anonymous...
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Yelp v. Hadeed Carpet Cleaning
July 30, 20142014-07-30-yelp-v-hadeed-carpet-cleaning.pdfHadeed Carpet Cleaning sued seven Yelp reviewers for libel, saying it suspects they were not customers but competitors intentionally lying about...
View ArticleNine months and counting: the injunction in Garcia v. Google continues to...
Hannah Bloch-Wehba Commentary December 3, 2014On December 15, the Ninth Circuit will rehear oral argument in a case that has odd facts and has made terrible law. In Garcia v. Google, a panel of judges...
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Microsoft v. Dep't of Justice
September 2, 20162016-09-02-Microsoft-v-DOJ.pdfMicrosoft challenged the federal law that allows the Department of Justice to impose gag orders, often permanently, on communications services providers...
View ArticleOWS protester argues that First and Fourth Amendments apply to tweets
Lilly Chapa News October 9, 2012An Occupy Wall Street protester is challenging a court’s decision requiring his tweets to be handed over to New York prosecutors, arguing that his First and Fourth...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court allows live streaming, tweeting from state courtrooms
Lilly Chapa News November 8, 2012An amendment to Kansas court rules now lets journalists use laptops and cell phones to report from the courtroom.Reporters still need permission from the presiding...
View ArticleGoogle's latest transparency report shows government surveillance on the rise...
Lilly Chapa News November 19, 2012Paula Broadwell isn’t the only person whose Gmail messages were read by government officials – Google received almost 8,000 e-mail access requests from U.S. state and...
View ArticleBusinessman can pursue defamation suit without showing proof of monetary...
Lilly Chapa News December 14, 2012A man accused of throwing a severed horse head in a local politician's pool does not have to prove monetary loss to pursue a defamation lawsuit against his online...
View ArticleVirginia Supreme Court reverses injunction against online commenter
Jack Komperda News January 4, 2013A Virginia woman being sued by her home contractor for libel won't have to remove negative comments she posted on Internet review sites about him, the Virginia Supreme...
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