Mattingly v. Milligan, 2011 WL 5184283 (E.D.Ark. November 1, 2011) Plaintiff worked in the county clerk’s office. Her old boss, whom she had supported in the election, lost. Her new boss (the newly-elected county clerk) began cleaning house and laid off some of the staff. Plaintiff survived that round of cuts, but lamented those terminations [...]
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Employee’s Facebook status update was protected by the First Amendment
November 9th, 2011
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Posted in First Amendment | Tags: facebook, First Amendment, free speech, social media, social networking
Court dismisses unfair competition claim against Facebook over alleged privacy violation
June 3rd, 2011
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This is a post by Sierra Falter. Sierra is a third-year law student at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago focusing on intellectual property law. You can reach her by email at sierrafalter [at] gmail dot com or follow her on Twitter (@lawsierra). Bio: www.sierrafalter.com. In re Facebook Privacy Litigation, 2011 WL 2039995 (N.D.Cal. [...]
Court throws out Facebook’s lawsuit against Teachbook.com
May 8th, 2011
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Case dismissed because federal court in California did not have personal jurisdiction over Illinois resident. Facebook, Inc. v. Teachbook.com, LLC, 2011 WL 1672464 (N.D.Cal. May 3, 2011) Last year Facebook made us wonder if it had gone off its meds when it filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Illinois-based Teachbook.com. More than one commentator thought [...]
Posted in Personal Jurisdiction, Trademarks | Tags: facebook, Personal Jurisdiction, social media, social networking
MySpace evidence was inadmissible hearsay
April 8th, 2011
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Musgrove v. Helms, 2011 WL 1225672 (Ohio App. 2 Dist. April 1, 2011) An Ohio domestic relations court ordered an ex-wife to pay her ex-husband child support. Based on evidence that the ex-wife’s income had increased, the court increased the amount of support she had to pay. One of the pieces of evidence the court [...]
Posted in Evidence, Litigation | Tags: admissibility, divorce, Evidence, hearsay, myspace, social media, social networking
Court says you don’t need a person’s permission to tag them in a Facebook photo
March 12th, 2011
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Lalonde v. Lalonde, — S.W.3d —, 2011 WL 832465 (Ky. App., February 25, 2011) Mother sought appellate review of the lower court’s order that awarded primary physical custody of her daughter to the child’s father. The mother argued, among other things, that the court improperly considered Facebook photos showing her drinking. This was not good [...]
Facebook victorious in lawsuit brought by kicked-off user
November 2nd, 2010
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Young v. Facebook, 2010 WL 4269304 (N.D. Cal. October 25, 2010) Plaintiff took offense to a certain Facebook page critical of Barack Obama and spoke out on Facebook in opposition. In response, many other Facebook users allegedly poked fun at plaintiff, sometimes using offensive Photoshopped versions of her profile picture. She felt harassed. But maybe [...]
Posted in Contracts, First Amendment, Fraud/Misrepresentation | Tags: Contracts, facebook, First Amendment, fourteenth amendment, social media, social networking
Court: privacy on social networking sites is wishful thinking
September 25th, 2010
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Defendant is permitted access to plaintiff’s social networking accounts as part of discovery in personal injury case. Romano v. Steelcase Inc., — N.Y.S.2d —, 2010 WL 3703242 (N.Y.Sup. September 21, 2010) Plaintiff sued defendant for personal injury that allegedly caused her to lose her enjoyment of life. During discovery, plaintiff refused to voluntarily turn over [...]
Plaintiff failed to show that Facebook pics supported hostile workplace claim
September 20th, 2010
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Jabbar v. Travel Services, Inc., 2010 WL 3563112, (D.Puerto Rico September 10, 2010) Plaintiff sued her former employer for racial discrimination. The court granted summary judgment in favor of the employer, finding there was not enough evidence to go to trial on plaintiff’s claim. Plaintiff asked the court to reconsider the judgment against her. The [...]
Posted in Employment, Evidence | Tags: discrimination, Employment, Evidence, facebook, social media, social networking
Nefarious LinkedIn use finally makes it to the courts
April 5th, 2010
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TEKsystems, Inc. v. Hammernick, No. 10-99819 (D. Minn., Filed 3/16/2010). [Link to Complaint (PDF)] Here is an interesting lawsuit that is bound to convince some employers that social media is causing the sky to fall (to the extent they’re not thinking that already). Image via Wikipedia An IT headhunting company that does business in the [...]
Posted in Employment | Tags: Employment, employment contracts, linkedin, noncompetition, social media, social networking
Is banning sex offenders from social networking sites constitutional?
August 13th, 2009
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Mashable and others are reporting on a law that the governor of Illinois signed earlier this week, banning use of social networking sites by convicted sex offenders. The big criticism of that law seems to be that it may be unconstitutional. That question is worth thinking about. The most likely constitutional challenge will be that [...]
Posted in Computer Crime, First Amendment | Tags: First Amendment, sex offenders, social media, social networking
