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Constitutional Law

Talking Isn’t Stalking: Reach and Implications of Georgia Stalking Case

April 1, 2015 Oscar Michelen 0

This is Part 2 of 2 about the Georgia Supreme Court’s Decision in Chan v. Ellis. I wrote about how the case got to the Supreme Court of Georgia earlier this week: https://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2015/03/georgia-supreme-court-rules-that-internet-posts-about-someone-dont-constitute-stalking/ This part will discuss the decision and its implications on future stalking claims. In deciding unanimously that Georgia’s Anti-Stalking Statute was not […]

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Constitutional Law

Georgia Supreme Court Rules That Internet Posts About Someone Don’t Constitute “Stalking”

March 30, 2015 Oscar Michelen 3

The Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously overturned a lower court’s permanent protective order against a Columbus, Georgia businessman named Matthew Chan; Chan had been hit with the order back in 2013 when a woman named Linda Ellis claimed she feared for her safety after reading 9 posts on Chan’s website, called ExtortionLetterInfo.com (“ELI”). [Disclaimer: Since […]

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Constitutional Law

NY Passes Revenge Porn Law

August 21, 2014 Oscar Michelen 0

Earlier this month, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo  signed NY’s version of a Revenge Porn  law. The law creates the offense of “Unlawful Dissemination of Lewd Images.”  It prohibits the sale, publication or distribution of images in which a person is in a stage of full or partial undress or engaged in  a sexual act without […]