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"The Court orders the case sealed, and that the following related defamatory URL webpages be removed from the internet" -- or does it?
"The Court orders the case sealed, and that the following related defamatory URL webpages be removed from the internet" -- or does it?
"Someone appears to be trying to scrub warnings about the church's controversial Narconon program from the internet."
Kamyar Jahanrakhshan is being prosecuted for allegedly launching denial-of-service attack against caselaw site leagle.com.
The New York trial court also ordered the tabloid (The Blot) to take down all its past articles about Christopher Brummer, who had been nominated in 2016 for a position on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Brummer’s lawyers had also earlier asked Google to deindex material about Brummer in large part on the grounds that the material included “racial hate speech and slurs.”
This is one of several dozen libel takedown orders that have involved shenanigans of various sort -- and it's the one that first led me to start investigating and writing about this.
"If Canada can enforce its laws to limit speech and information access in other countries, does it accept that other countries may do the same? Can Russia use its anti-gay laws to make search results unavailable to Canadians?"
"[Megan] Welter cannot be granted injunctive relief suppressing unflattering coverage" of her arrest for attacking her boyfriend, "even if her former boyfriend had the misplaced gallantry to help her get such a court order."
The original posting of the secret handshake was likely a breach of a nondisclosure agreement -- but further reposting by third parties is not.
More developments, including three lawsuits filed by a lawyer in Baltimore.
