Category Archives: Libel/Defamation

Jeffery Goldberg writes about the Mid-East for the Atlantic. For what it’s worth, he was pro-Iraq invasion in 2002. He recently wrote a piece about Sarah Palin’s comments to Katie Couric that you can read here. His piece was entitled “Sarah Palin Endorses Hamas.” His argument, as I understand it, is this: because unintended consequences, […]

That’s an interesting way of characterizing a ‘libel in fiction’ claim. WSJ Law Blog reports on such a claim withstanding summary judgment.

NY Times: Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back: What happens when the audience can talk back. An Expert On Such Things opined on Fox News about the video game Mass Effect. She criticized the sexual content of the game and said: “Here’s how they’re seeing women: They’re seeing them as these objects of […]

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has been sued by a former restaurant manager, alleging that Ramsay falsified scenes for a Fox reality show, “Kitchen Nightmares.” Coverage here. Email me for a copy of the complaint.

I’m not ignoring commenting on AVVO, the numerical lawyer rating service that is the subject of lawsuits – it’s just that if to answer a question such as whether I thought AVVO was good or not, I was required to analyze numerous factors, and I didn’t have the time to competently evaluate all, or even […]

WSJ (reg req): “Firms Tidy Up Clients’ Bad Online Reputations” (concerning firms that remove or displace negative content on the web, such as Reputation Defender, Inc. and Defend My Name)