The sculptor behind “The Bean,” the famous sculpture in Chicago, filed a copyright lawsuit against the NRA for briefly showing the sculpture in an advertising video.
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PPP Board Member Eric Goldman writes about a case in which a law firm brought a defamation claim against an attorney for his post on his own law firm’s blog. Though the blogging lawyer tried to use the Illinois anti-SLAPP statute to dismiss the case, the statute did not apply.
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An Illinois Circuit Court Judge threw out a defamation suit that had been brought by a realty-management company against a Chicago renter. The suit was based on comments that the renter had posted on Twitter.
Read MoreIn 2004, the American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) filed a lawsuit against Dr. Thomas Perls of Boston University and Professor S. Jay Olshansky of University of Illinois at Chicago in an Illinois circuit court. The suit alleged that the two professors had engaged in “defamatory conduct” and interfered with A4M’s business and economic advantage.
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