Roca Labs v Does (11/14/14)
STATUS:
Suit filed in Circuit Court.
Fla.Cir.: Roca Labs Sues Anonymous Commenters In Convoluted Plot To Get Negative Comments De-Indexed From Google
TechDirt
Roca Labs is suing 11 anonymous commenters who posted comments to PissedConsumer.com, but it doesn't seem interested in who posted the comments; instead, it just wants to get a court order to pressure Google and others into no longer linking to those reviews.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141202/15032929299/roca-labs-latest-nutty-strategy-to-delete-negative-reviews-sue-anonymous-commenters-pretend-comments-are-property.shtml
Complaint:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1373944/12-02-03.pdf
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Roca Lab v Does
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Hingston v. Google
Hingston v. Google (12/21/12)
STATUS: Complaint filed in California District Court on 12/21/12.
C.D.Cal.: Filing Lawsuits in the United States Over Google Auto-Complete Is...
Citizen Media Law Blog
In false light and defamation actions, context is king.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2013/filing-lawsuits-united-states-over-google-autocomplete
Complaint: http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/Hingston%20Complaint.pdf
STATUS: Complaint filed in California District Court on 12/21/12.
C.D.Cal.: Filing Lawsuits in the United States Over Google Auto-Complete Is...
Citizen Media Law Blog
In false light and defamation actions, context is king.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2013/filing-lawsuits-united-states-over-google-autocomplete
Complaint: http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/Hingston%20Complaint.pdf
Labels:
Defamation,
False Light,
Google,
internet; blogger,
online; website
Hersh v. Cohen
N.Y. Sup.: Should Anonymous Comments be a Right?
PC World
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting in another case to keep anonymous commenting safe from sweeping subpoenas. A New York couple has issued dragnet subpoenas to Google and Yahoo demanding the identities of users behind 10 email accounts, 30 blog operators, website administrators, and the identities of anyone who had ever commented on those sites.
----Electronic Frontier Foundation's Memorandum in Support of the Motion to Quash
PC World
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting in another case to keep anonymous commenting safe from sweeping subpoenas. A New York couple has issued dragnet subpoenas to Google and Yahoo demanding the identities of users behind 10 email accounts, 30 blog operators, website administrators, and the identities of anyone who had ever commented on those sites.
----Electronic Frontier Foundation's Memorandum in Support of the Motion to Quash
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