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Columbia Pictures wins lawsuit over omission of man from ‘The Social Network’

donal brown May 15, 2012

A Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg who earlier settled a suit with Zuckerberg over the ‘Facebook’ trademark, lost his bid in Massachusetts court to establish a new tort, “defamation by omission.” The classmate, Aaron Greenspan, said in omitting him from the movie “The Social Network,” the filmmakers were belittling his role in developing Facebook. -db From The Hollywood Reporter, May 14, 2012, by Eriq Gardner. Full story    

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Lawyer sues Harvard Law School for defamation over article in law journal

donal brown May 10, 2012

A lawyer with a degree from Harvard Law School is suing the school for defamation alleging that they falsely accused her of plagiarism in submitting an article to the law school’s Journal of Law and Technology. The lawyer claims a draft of her article was damaged when a virus invaded her computer, and the editors published it without giving her a chance to finish her work. She was accused of failing to give proper credit

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$13.8 million judgment in Texas defamation trial over anonymous posts

donal brown April 26, 2012

After found not guilty of sexual assault of a woman in their Texas community, a couple were attacked anonymously on Topix, accused of drug abuse and dealing, murder and encouraging pedophilia. The couple was forced to move out of town, and the wife lost her business. After Topix helped the couple find the identity of those making the anonymous postings, the couple sued the perpetrators and won a $13.8 million judgment by a jury. -db

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Kentucky: Federal appeals court denies teacher’s unusual defamation claim

donal brown April 19, 2012

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals took a dim view of the claims by a former Kentucky teacher that a principal had committed “libel by pantomime” by escorting her out of the building when she protested that she was not allowed a representative at a meeting. She claimed that escorting her out of the building would lead those observing to think she had done something wrong. -db From the First Amendment Center, April 19,

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Opinion: Out of compliance with shield law, Oregon blogger loses defamation suit

donal brown April 17, 2012

The federal judge in the Oregon blogger defamation case came under a lot of heat for ruling that the negligence standard did not apply to the blogger Crystal Cox because she did not fit the categories of journalists in the state’s shield law. But says Eric P. Robinson for the Citizen Media Law Project, that was not the main reason he ruled against Cox. “Instead, he [the judge] reached this conclusion [his ruling] because Cox

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