Legal Newsline: “Twenty cases against landlords and real estate agents accused of violating state anti-discrimination laws across Massachusetts have been settled by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office. The companies were alleged to have made discriminatory statements in rental advertisements that were posted on the classified advertising website Craigslist.org.”
WSBTV.com: “A former Barrow County teacher is suing the North Georgia school district, alleging she was forced to step down after photos and an expletive were shown on her Facebook profile.”
Legal Blog Watch: “As I wrote back in August, the number of Twitter followers one has continues to be an extremely misleading metric. This week, Mark Britton, CEO of Avvo, advanced that idea further, writing on the Legal Technology blog that it was time for him to ‘let the cat out of the bag’ and debunk the notion ‘that the number of Twitter followers one has is positively, if not perfectly, correlated to the amount of influence someone has in the marketplace.’ Britton states flat-out that ‘the number of one’s Twitter followers has nothing to do with his or her influence.'”
I agree. On July 14, 2009, I created a Twitter account at www.twitter.com/keytlaw and made one tweet that says “This account is inactive.” Despite that warning that the account will not have any tweets, it now has 55 followers.
Digital Media Lawyer Blog: “A judge in the Southern District of New York has upheld a clause contained in a click-wrap user agreement that required any suit regarding use of the Match.com site to be brought in north Texas. The opinion actually commended Match.com for including this forum selection clause in its User Agreement. It noted that Match.com’s headquarters are in Dallas, Texas and that failure to include such a clause in its User Agreements would have subjected Match to suit in all 50 states.”
Kentucky.com: “The former attorney for accused killer Steve Nunn has filed a lawsuit against unnamed defendants who posted comments about her on Kentucky.com, a Web site operated by the Lexington Herald-Leader.”