Another interesting blog post over on Concurring Opinions today, this one by Lawrence Cunningham: Can you keep a secret? If you promise to, law generally will hold you to it, even over protests that your First Amendment rights say otherwise. The famous golf pro, Tiger Woods, is reportedly asking his wife for such an ironclad…
Category: Court
Recommended: Contracts and Privacy
Last week, this site posted an update to the Canadian case where a customer sued Rogers Wireless for bundling her cell phone account without her authorization. Gabriela Nagy claims that her husband discovered that she had had an affair when he looked at the detailed phone records that were included in the newly bundled account….
Defamation Lawsuit: How PogoWasRight.org Fought Back
As a pseudoanonymous blogger and privacy advocate, I’ve occasionally blogged about the use or abuse of legal process to unmask anonymous bloggers or to silence critics (cf, the “Stokklerk” case, the attempts to unmask critics of a development project, the A.Z. v. Doe case, and the HipCheck16 case). Despite some progress made, most notably in…
New Suits Could Chill Writers’ Use of Own Experiences
Matthew Heller writes about how some lawsuits may chill people’s ability to use their own experiences as the basis for creative works: The case of a woman who claims she is the real-life model for the character of a prostitute in a movie is one of three lawsuits filed last month which would punish writers…