by Paul Alan Levy Last spring, Twitter received a fair amount of attention for fighting a patently bogus attempt by the Department of Homeland Security to abuse its statutory authority to investigate the importation of goods as the basis for to issuing an administrative summons seeking to identify the owners of a Twitter account hostile […]
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by Paul Alan Levy D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin has issued his ruling on the pending objections to search warrants served on Facebook by Federal prosecutors seeking the entire contents of the Facebook accounts for the DisruptJ20 Facebook page as well as the personal accounts of two individuals, Lacey MacAuley and Legba Carrefour, […]
by Paul Alan Levy Prestigious Pets, the Dallas-area pet-sitting company that faced a blizzard of public criticism after it invoked a non-disparagement clause as a basis for suing a husband and wife in small claims court after the wife posted over a mildly critical Yelp review of the company’s procedures and the resulting overfeeding a […]
by Paul Alan Levy After the late John Dozier was humiliated about ten years ago after it came to light that his office was routinely including a tag line in its demand letters threatening to sue for copyright infringement if the demand letter was republished, I thought it had become well-established that using those lines […]
by Paul Alan Levy In a motion to quash filed today, three Facebook users are challenging search warrants issued by federal prosecutors seeking to rummage through accounts in which they supported protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump on the weekend of January 20. One of the accounts may be the Facebook analogue of the […]
by Paul Alan Levy In my blog post yesterday about developments in the litigation over the search warrant to DreamHost, I recounted the encouraging signs from DC Superior Court Chief Judge Morin’s written order and colloquys with counsel during oral argument at a hearing this week about his determination to protect the privacy rights of […]
by Paul Alan Levy Late last week, DC Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin issued an opinion explaining his oral ruling at last month’s hearing on a search warrant issued to DreamHost demanding production of its files pertaining to DisruptJ20.org, and rejecting the rival proposed orders filed by the prosecutors and by DreamHost. We were […]
by Paul Alan Levy Today we filed our brief on behalf of three anonymous Internet users who object to the breadth of the proposed orders submitted by the Government and by DreamHost, each spelling out their alternative versions of the how Chief Judge Robert Morin had articulated his ruling that enforced a narrowed search warrant […]
by Paul Alan Levy In a motion for leave to intervene filed today, three anonymous Internet users who sought information from the DisruptJ20 web site, who joined listservs through which such information was communicated, or who volunteered to provide legal support work for the range of nonviolent protest activities advertised on the site, are asking […]
by Paul Alan Levy In a decision issued late Thursday morning, DC Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin said that he was ready to order DreamHost to comply with the federal prosecutors’ scaled-down search warrant, but enunciated strict procedural restrictions that he said were intended to reflect a balance between allowing the Government to pursue […]