Internet Law
Companies Face Blogging Lawsuits
Posted Sep 11, 2008, 12:03 pm CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Many companies are facing lawsuits for comments posted on the growing number of corporate blogs or for actions taken against blogging employees.
Several companies have been sued in the last five years on a variety of grounds, including defamation, retaliation and discrimination, the National Law Journal reports.
The legal newspaper cited these lawsuits:
• Two lawyers filed a defamation lawsuit against a blogger who called himself Patent Troll Tracker and the company that employed him, Cisco Systems Inc. The blogger, lawyer Richard Frenkel, had claimed the two lawyers conspired to change a filing date of an infringement suit.
• A Delta flight attendant sued the airline for sex discrimination for firing her after she posted photos of herself in uniform on her blog.
• A group of Quiznos employees sued the company for wrongful termination, claiming the company retaliated against them for posting a suicide letter of a former franchisee. The company settled the case last December.