Compiled list: Legal cases related to online harassment & free speech
In preparing for my lecture on Free Speech and Social media, I’ve been looking for examples where these issues have been explored legally. I was hoping to find someone who had kept a list of them, but since I didn’t find such a thing I started one.
If you know of others to add, or other similar lists, please leave a comment:
- Lawsuit against Yelp reviews, Hadeed carpet
- USA vs. Jeffries, re: Youtube video
- Teen in jail over Facebook threat
- Threats and abuse for online women
- Twitter harassment case in Toronto court (more)
- Montreal twitter harasser arrested
- Pennsyvania vs. Cox, Facebook posting lawsuit
- San Francisco court protects free speech (EFF)
- Court finds offensive IM messages
- Cyberstalking law unconstitutional
- Bullied student does not have to hand over media
- No restraining order over uncle posting family photos
- No permission needed to tag Facebook photos
- Site operator defends anonymous commenters
- List of U.S. related state laws
- Cyberbullying fact sheet (children)
- Harassed online: what to do?
Thanks to Venkat, Babs Guthrie, Heather Bussing, Jen Zug, Skud, Cameron Campell, Ellie, Christine Bower, Sarah Jeong for helping find these.
Also the My Space suicide case from a few years back (criminal matter against the mom that posed as a student and harassed a girl, who then killed herself.) Here’s the Wikipedia link for the case with links to the decision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Drew
Then there are the Courtney Love and Johnny Gill twitter defamation suits that are ongoing now. http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-defamation-cases-are-heating-up_b12799
it happened once in Indonesia
Prita Mulyasari: Young Mother Imprisoned for Criticizing Hospital
http://indonesialawonline.com/Case%20Prita.aspx, http://indonesia.ahrchk.net/docs/CaveatV01-I.pdf
A new one here in Seattle:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-arrested-threatening-seattle-mayor-councilmemb/ncsYn/