by Travis Rimando | Aug 7, 2009 | Cases |
The lawsuit between rock artist Jackson Browne and Senator John McCain and the Republican Party was recently settled, and ordered dismissed on August 4, 2009, almost a year after the suit was filed by Browne. Browne filed a lawsuit against McCain, the Republican...
by Travis Rimando | Aug 7, 2009 | Cases |
Twitter has been the subject of controversy as of late, primarily regarding the content of “tweets,” Twitter’s user-sent messages. Some of this controversy has turned into legal action. While the highest-profile controversies involve celebrities,...
by Jason C. Miller | Apr 16, 2009 | Cases, MTTLR Journal |
MTTLR, like many journals, publishes content written by both students and scholars. Though articles written by scholars (professors, practitioners, judges, etc.) are generally considered more significant, student-written content has had a noticeable impact and has...
by Jason C. Miller | Mar 22, 2009 | Cases, Legal/Tech News, Quick Links |
As courts [PDF] have established standards for subpoenas to ISPs in online defamation lawsuits, they have raised new questions. Professor Wasserman has raised the question whether these standards are a part of state substantive defamation law that federal courts would...
by nsims | Mar 3, 2009 | Cases |
The Supreme Court has granted cert in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, a case arising from settlement negotiations following New York Times v. Tasini. In Tasini (full decision), the court determined that freelancers who had not explicitly licensed electronic publication...
by nsims | Feb 18, 2009 | Cases |
by: Ali-Reza Boloori, Associate Editor, MTTLR The Supreme Court in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc.1 made a broad, contemporary affirmation of the principle of patent exhaustion. By answering in the affirmative the question of “whether patent exhaustion...
