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Speech still free for bloggers

Ron Coleman — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:09:32 +0000

Originally posted 2014-02-10 15:10:22. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThough in most cases, litigation isn’t. The decision, reported by Eric Goldman, is not remarkable. Unfortunately, neither is the fact that under the American Rule, there is for all practical purposes no downside to suing someone on the most preposterous of grounds and losing — hence making […]

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Please unfollow

Ron Coleman — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:00:55 +0000

Originally posted 2019-08-09 12:03:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIs it me? I don’t think it’s me.

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What’s all this about Roommates.com?

Ron Coleman — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:45:53 +0000

Originally posted 2008-04-11 10:33:48. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt’s probably the most important legal decision involving the Internet of the year, especially because it does not merely affect narrow business or legal segments of the world. Evan Brown rounds everything up.

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Hackers with Grey Hats

Ron Coleman — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:37:44 +0000

Originally posted 2012-07-24 21:10:24. Republished by Blog Post PromoterTwo different sources alerted me to this story that is near and dear. That link to Shlashdot comes from my friend at the Sapiens Cogito blog. It appears that a law firm called Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey (no website I could find when I wrote this) […]

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Petition for certiorari in the FLANAX case

Ron Coleman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:22:09 +0000

Originally posted 2016-10-20 17:38:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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I’ve got your blogger disclosure right here

Ron Coleman — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:18:36 +0000

Originally posted 2010-10-29 00:08:36. Republished by Blog Post PromoterVia Instapundit: IRA STOLL: Vanguard Blogger Is Democratic Donor. â€œThe Vanguard mutual fund official responsible for the pre-election Vanguard blog post crediting the Obama stimulus bill passed by Congressional Democrats with averting a second Great Depression has given $11,600 in campaign contributions over the past seven years â€” every […]

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Meet. The. Bloggers!

Ron Coleman — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:06:09 +0000

Originally posted 2013-08-05 13:37:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter We always have this Meet the Bloggers thing at the annual INTA meeting. I have been co-sponsoring them along with Marty Schwimmer and John Welch since Chicago in 2007. I did bag out when INTA met in Berlin. Pamela Chestek joined a little later. MTB was king […]

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"If I’m a new inventor, I’m going to get sued right away."

Ron Coleman — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:01:43 +0000

Originally posted 2005-03-29 16:23:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSurprisingly, it was Antonin the Great who said that, according to an AP Report on today’s Grokster action. And in this regard he and I are in disagreement. I think it’s an argument reductio ad absurdum. On the other side: Justice Kennedy quoted as saying that using […]

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Document review

Ron Coleman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:57:41 +0000

Originally posted 2016-12-06 12:42:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWhere to start, where to start… At the beginning, I guess. Though not in chronological order. LIKELY2CONFUSE00001: I wrote a post on the subject of the genericization of the term “Bates Stamp” in June of 2012. It took hours and hours of research and analysis, and when […]

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Update on proposed New York anti-law-blog bill

Ron Coleman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:52:49 +0000

Originally posted 2006-10-24 15:31:35. Republished by Blog Post PromoterToday’s New York Law Journal has an article on the proposed new regulations that would destroy the use of the Internet by lawyers, stating that most of the bar groups commenting on them consider them too broad or worse. It makes reference to a magnum opus on […]

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TTAB / Al Qaeda Claim: Trademarks Make the Big Time

Ron Coleman — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:42:59 +0000

Originally posted 2005-08-02 14:34:17. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSometimes we microniche bloggers get a little antsy with the self-imposed limitations on our scope. Ah, to be an early adopter! … but this was not our blogging fate. Sometimes, however, the system kicks one up and all of a sudden we have the opportunity to combine […]

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Who’s yer daddy?

Ron Coleman — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:34:03 +0000

Originally posted 2012-08-06 17:28:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMarc Randazza does a great job in explaining, and suggesting at least one answer to the question, “Is GoDaddy a Cybersquatter?”

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