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Nuts

February 22, 2021February 23, 2021 BRIEF
Agriculture, blogging, damages, Georgia, Libel

A federal court in Georgia ruled that a blogger who runs a site about the global pecan market must pay the owner of a business that sells nuts $60,000 in damages for making libelous statements about the owner, including that he co-founded a business that was accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of pecans from growers.

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Appeals Civil Rights Education 

Conspiracy Blog

November 17, 2020November 18, 2020 BRIEF
11th circuit, blogging, college, conspiracy theories, Florida, Sandy Hook

The Eleventh Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of Florida Atlantic University in a dispute brought by a professor who was fired after he refused to submit reports about his personal blog, where he questioned whether the Sandy Hook massacre had occurred.

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Civil Rights Government Media 

Rowdy Meetings

October 13, 2020October 14, 2020 BRIEF
blogging, Free Speech, New York, public access

The editor of the blog “Town of Oyster Bay News” sued Oyster Bay, New York, over the passage of a resolution giving the town leader the authority to have anyone who makes “offensive, insulting, threatening, insolent, slanderous or obscene remarks or gestures” during town meetings charged with disorderly conduct.

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Civil Rights 

Judge Finds Winemakers’ Defamation Suit Against Blogger Hollow

August 19, 2020September 1, 2020 NICK CAHILL
alcohol, blogging, defamation, wine

An attempt by one of the country’s largest winemakers to squash a prominent industry critic who cast the winery as “fakers not makers” has soured in federal court.

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Government International Media Politics 

Russia Passes Bill Targeting Bloggers and Journalists

November 21, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
blogging, Journalism, Russia, Social Media

Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that gives the government the right to register bloggers, journalists and social media users as foreign agents.

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Appeals Civil Rights Law Politics 

Sixth Circuit Weighs Ohio Online-Harassment Law

October 16, 2018 EMILY ZANTOW
blogging, Free Speech, Harassment, internet, Ohio, Sixth Circuit

The Sixth Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in a case brought by liberal political commentators and conservative activists challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s law against online harassment, claiming it criminalizes protected speech.

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Criminal Government Law National Politics 

In Blog Posts, Butina Said She Was Twice Denied Entry Into US

July 20, 2018July 30, 2018 BRITAIN EAKIN
blogging, espionage, Russia

Mariia Butina, whom prosecutors have accused of acting as an illegal foreign agent for Russia, said in 2014 she was twice denied visas to enter the United States before finally being allowed to attend a National Rifle Association conference that year.

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Civil Rights Education Employment Politics 

Wisconsin High Court Rules for Fired Conservative Professor

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 EMILY ZANTOW
blogging, Conservatives, Free Speech, higher education, LGBT, same-sex marriage, Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered Marquette University on Friday to reinstate a political-science professor who rankled his colleagues with a blog post criticizing liberal speech policing.

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Civil Rights Education Regional 

Blogging Professors Can Sue School Officials on Free-Speech Claims

October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 GLYNIS FARRELL BERGNER
blogging, Chicago, college, computer, Free Speech, retaliation, teachers

A federal judge ruled that two professors can pursue claims that Chicago State University officials launched a campaign to punish them for criticizing the school’s administration on a blog created by faculty members.

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Civil Rights Law Politics 

Pundits Call Ohio Harassment Law Anti-Free Speech

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017 JEFF D. GORMAN
blogging, Free Speech, Harassment, internet, Ohio, tea party

Liberal political commentators teamed up with conservative activists in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s new law against online harassment.

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Appeals Entertainment 

LiveJournal Must Go to Trial for Celebrity Photos

April 10, 2017September 6, 2017 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
blogging, celebrity, Copyright, internet, Ninth Circuit, Photography, Social Media

Social media and blogging community LiveJournal must go to trial over allegations that it broke the law by posting copyrighted celebrity photos online, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

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Business Economy Media National 

Publisher Claims It Was Defamed By Blogger

February 17, 2017February 21, 2017 IZZY KAPNICK
blogging, defamation, Publishing

Biting back at claims it deceives investors and employs an “investment scammer,” publisher Sovereign Offshore filed a defamation lawsuit against a blogger critical of its financial newsletters.

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