Archive for June, 2008

Byatt on Euro 2008

A.S. Byatt watches sports partly because a game is a story where you don’t know the end until it comes.

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Vocabulary lessons and the neighborhood flyer

Speaking of potential libel, I happened upon this clump of flyers in the gutter over the weekend. Instantly I felt sorry for Yisroel [Redacted], alleged “‘noted’ moser!!!” of my neighborhood’s Orthodox community, whose name has now literally been dragged through the mud. Back at home, I discovered that a moser is “a Jew who intends to turn another Jew in . . .

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Defamation immunity for website operators narrows

Website operators traditionally have relied on the Communications Decency Act to shield them from liability for user-generated content. The April decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com significantly narrows this immunity. Over the weekend my friend and former law professor Lyrissa Lidsky alerted me to the case, noting that . . .

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