43(B)log: “KinderStart v. Google dismissed” (Google assigned page rank of zero to plaintiff’s site).
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Husband Sues Bill O’Reilly
Who can not click on the headline “Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband sues Bill O’Reilly“?
“Michael Crichton Slurs A Critic”
Brendan Nyhan (author of ‘Spinsanity’): “Michael Crichton Slurs A Critic,” in which the Small Penis Rule in Libel law is discussed.
Dog Whistles
Here’s a fact pattern for the libel law final: A publishes someting per se libelous about B, however they do so using a code that is only understand by A’s group, all of whom hate B and among whom B has no reputation to damage. The public at large can’t read the message when exposed
This ABC 9/11 Thing Is Getting Interesting
Discourse.net discusses the possibility of libel in fictionalized accounts.
‘GM Slow To React To Nasty Ads’
News.com: ‘GM Slow To React To Nasty Ads.’
The Cruise Scientology South Park Thing
I haven’t focused on the whole Tom Park/Scientology/’suppressed’ episode thing but here’s commentary from Volokh and here, for now, is the episode in question. News coverage here.
Defamation In The Mind Of the Defamer or Defamee or Audience?
He calls a fellow (female) Selectman a name at a meeting which, if they both knew what it meant, would be, at a minimum, very insulting (it’s a term for the outline of something that’s located close to something that rhymes with Mulva), however, she doesn’t know what it means, and he claims that he
Eschaton and Intent To Annoy
Atrios is the pseudonym for a blogger who writes for the popular Eschaton blog. Three times today he posted critical comments of Arlen Specter and ended all of them by providing Specter’s contact info and the exhortation that his readers call Specter and ask him provocative questions.
If many people called Specter and ask him
DeLay Chills Ad Linking Him To Abramoff
A TV Ad linking Congressman DeLay was pulled after threat of legal action by the Congressman, alleging that the ad contained falsehoods. Via Chron.com.