Legal News

Court: No shield law for message boards posters
The New Jersey Supreme Court says people posting in online message boards don't have the same protections for sources as mainstream journalists. The court ruled Tuesday that New Jersey's shield law for journalists does not apply to such message boards...

"NJ court: No shield law for message boards posters."
"NJ court: No shield law for message boards posters." The Associated Press has a report that begins, "The New Jersey Supreme Court says people posting in online message boards don't have the same protections for sources as mainstream journalists...

"N.J. High Court to Review if Web Posters Can Invoke Shield Law"
"N.J. High Court to Review if Web Posters Can Invoke Shield Law": Michael Booth of New Jersey Law Journal has this report.

Bullying Critics and Suppressing Competition Not Enough to Keep Video Professor in Business
by Paul Alan Levy Video Professor, notorious for filing lawsuits against message boards and message board posters to suppress criticisms of its sales practices, and for filing spurious trademark actions to prevent effective competition, is apparently teetering on the edge...

Preserving some Overstock.com history again
From time-to-time, I like to cut and paste from the ever-entertaining stock message boards about Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK). I admit to being a casual observer. I don’t post on those message boards, but do read on occasion...

Copyright, Cook & Cuomo (Warnings, Wendy & Wind)
.. three stories from around my town . . Copyright and Community Message Boards: To be honest, I’m surprised it took them so long.  This week, our local newspaper, the Schenectady Gazette, sent demands to stop copyright infringement to two popular community message boards that have for years been posting several Gazette articles a [...

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National Association of Realtors
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