The Associated Press reports: A scholar’s son was convicted Thursday of using online aliases to harass and discredit his father’s detractors in a heated academic debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Manhattan jury found Raphael Golb guilty of about 30 counts against him, including identity theft, forgery and harassment. He was…
Category: Court
Stored Communications Act limits Gmail information obtainable pursuant to subpoena
Evan Brown writes: Beluga Shipping GMBH & Co. KS Beluga Fantastic v. Suzlon Energy LTD., 2010 WL 3749279 (N.D. Cal., Sept. 23, 2010) Court rules that under the Stored Communications Act, account holder consent is required to obtain copies of emails in Google’s possession. Before you issue a subpoena seeking copies of emails, read Beluga Shipping….
The First Amendment and Privacy–Part 2
Andy Serwin writes: This post is the second in a series that examines First Amendment issues and privacy. It examines several of the standards that courts have adopted when considering the identification of anonymous speakers on the Internet. Other State Variants of Cahill In Lassa v. Rongstad and The Valkyrie Group, LLC, 294 Wis.2d 187, 718…
Oui, Defamation Can be Automatic
Marie-Andrée – who unlike this blogger can actually speak French and is a lawyer to boot – provides a commentary and explanation of a recent French court ruling that Eric Schmidt was guilty of defamation because of Google Suggest results. She writes, in part: The Court noted that “algorithms or software solutions proceed from the…