Milt Policzer reports: The former owner of a Beverly Hills-based magazine has filed a complaint seeking $5 million from actor Tom Cruise, celebrity lawyer Bertram Fields and private investigator Anthony Pellicano that claims he was illegally wiretapped after Cruise filed a defamation suit against him. Michael Davis Sapir, in a suit filed in Superior Court,…
Category: Court
The Tort of Privacy’s Racist Past
Danielle Citron had a really interesting post today about how some have attempted to use privacy protections to shield them from exposure of bigotry: As New York Times v. Sullivan made clear, defamation has a bigoted past. There, Montgomery, Alabama’s police commissioner brought a defamation suit against The New York Times after it published an…
Canadian court orders litigant to request her Facebook records from ISP
Toronto attorney Dan Michaluk blogs: On December 2nd, the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s bench ordered a plaintiff in a disability insurance claim to obtain “a history of her computer account use” from her ISP and “request” her ISP to generate a record accounting for her FaceBook use. The case is Carter v. Connors, 2009…
Library Groups Ask Justice Department To Supervise Institutional Pricing for Google Book Database
In a letter (PDF) to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, say “active supervision of the settlement by the court and the United States will protect the public interest far more than any…