By Eric Goldman Gauck v. Karamian, 2011 WL 3273123 (W.D.Tenn. July 29, 2011) TheDirty.com has an increasingly active litigation docket. This case comes from Lauren Lee Gauck Giovanetti, a TV news reporter for Fox 13 in Memphis, Tennessee. She sued…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Onnen v. Sioux Falls Independent School Dist., 2011 S.D. 45 (South Dakota; Aug. 3, 2011) If any modern day communication is more inconsequential than a “happy birthday” post on Facebook, I’m not sure what is. We’ve…
By Eric Goldman Riggs v. MySpace, Inc., 2011 WL 3020543 (9th Cir. July 25, 2011) Riggs created a popular MySpace page, only to have MySpace delete it twice. Not pleased by that turn of events, for years Riggs has been…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Pulte Homes, Inc. v. Laborers’ Int’l Union, et al., 09-2245; 10-1673 (6th Cir. Aug 2, 2011) I blogged about a case involving a labor dispute between Pulte Homes and Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA)….
By Eric Goldman 1 800 GET THIN v. Hiltzik, 2:11-cv-00505-ODW -E (C.D. Cal. July 25, 2011) I’m sure any trademark experts reading this post are scratching their heads at the blog post title. Newspapers discussing a trademarked product qualify for…
By Rebecca Tushnet and Eric Goldman TrafficSchool.com, Inc. v. Edriver Inc., 2011 WL 3198226 (9th Cir. July 28, 2011) [Over the years, Rebecca and I have blogged dozens of the same cases. However, we’ve never done a joint blog post…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani, with comments from Eric] In re Rolando S., 2011 WL 3212879 (Ca. Ct. App.; July 21, 2011) Background: Rolando was a juvenile who received an unsolicited text message with the victim’s email password. According to the…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Koch Industries, Inc. v. Does, 10CV1275DAK (D. Utah; May 9, 2011) [.pdf] [This is one of those cases that I intended to cover when it came out, but it got lost in the shuffle. Eric talks…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Facebook v. Power Ventures, Case No. 5:08-cv-05780 JW (N.D. Cal.) [Update/Clarification: I received an email from the CEO of RokMe Inc. (who is handling the power.com auction) to this effect: Power.com is being sold by its…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani, with comments from Ethan Ackerman] US v. Smallwood, 09-CR-00249 (N.D. Tex.; July 15, 2011) First Amendment challenges to spam statutes are long shots at best, with Jaynes v. Virginia being the big exception. In this case,…