AutoAdmit lawsuit

There have been several interesting posts recently on the AutoAdmit lawsuit in the US.  Eugene Volokh has a good summary of the lawsuit:

The two women law students who were generally badmouthed and insulted by pseudonymous commenters on the AutoAdmit Web site have sued. They've sued Anthony Ciolli, who helped found and manage AutoAdmit, and they've sued the pseudonymous commenters. The claims are copyright infringement (based on someone's apparent copying of some photographs of Doe I to which the copyright was owned by Doe I), appropriation of name and likeness, disclosure of private facts, false light invasion of privacy, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, "permanent removal of the message threads from the AutoAdmit Site," "authorization to Google permanently to remove the cached message threads," and costs.

Read Eugene Volokh's thoughts here.  Daniel J Solove at Concurring Opinions also has a useful summary of the case.  Read it here.

See also Eric Goldman here, Above the Law here and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog here.