Plaintiff Knight Institute’s summary of issues in lawsuit:
The Knight First Amendment Institute filed suit in the Southern District of New York contending that President Trump and his communications team violated the First Amendment by blocking seven people from the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account because they criticized the president or his policies.
The suit argues
Trump lawyer Jason Greenblatt threatens Tony Schwartz, (credited) author of “The Art of the Deal” and author’s lawyer, Elizabeth McNamara’s response. Background here.
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Justia.com Opinion Summary: Fortres develops and sells a desktop management program called “Clean Slate” and holds a federally-registered trademark for use of that name to identify “[c]omputer software used to protect public access computers by scouring the computer drive back to its original configuration upon reboot.” When Warner Bros. Entertainment used the words “the
This is interesting for a bunch of reasons. The San Francisco Forty-Niners sue a nightclub near its stadium, that promotes events that refer to the Niners or its players. See Exhibits Q, R and S in the second document below for ads the club distributes to promote, for example, birthday parties ‘in honor of’ specific
Last night I took the family to see ’22 Jump Street’ (“Mindless fun” says The Trademark Blog. “Could have been a lot worse”) and we saw the trailer (above) for “The Interview,” a Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy scheduled for release this fall. The movie appears to be about an attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the
2d Circuit reversed. FCC procedure followed but Court kicks it back to 2d Circuit to determine constitutionality.
Decision Fcc Expletive
Available here. Yes, the logo is subject of application 77183101.
and the url has been taken. HT to GC.
Wired.com: “RIAA Decries Attorney-Blogger as ‘Vexatious’ Litigator“:
The Recording Industry Association of America is declaring attorney-blogger Ray Beckerman a “vexatious” litigator and is seeking unspecified monetary sanctions to punish him in his defense of a New York woman accused of making copyrighted music available on the Kazaa file sharing system.
Decries:
Etymology:
French
Not IP but interesting. A Michigan Republican allegedly says to a newspaper that Republicans will challenge voters based on foreclosure lists. The paper prints it, the Republican demands a retraction, the paper refuses, the Obama campaign brings a suit requesting an injunction against a ‘lose your house, lose your vote campaign.’ Ripeness issues?