Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit 123
An anonymous reader writes "Michigan's Thomas M. Cooley Law School recently filed a lawsuit that appears to be boomeranging in the worst possible way. A little-noticed pseudonymous blogger respectfully disagreed with Cooley's self-awarded number-2 ranking, nationwide (well, perhaps not so respectfully), and had a few other choice things to say. So, Cooley went ahead and hired some lawyers (who had graduated from Georgetown and the University of Michigan) to file a lawsuit to unmask the blogger. And EFF cooperating attorney John Hermann got involved. "
hmmm (Score:5, Informative)
This is called the Streisand Effect (Score:2, Informative)
Re:SLAPP? (Score:5, Informative)
Honestly, I think the term's fallen out of use because so goddamn many suits are the result of this tactic now.
Re:What? (Score:2, Informative)
No, Michigan refers to the state in which Thomas M. Cooley School of Law is in. The University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor is a T14 law school and is not named Thomas Cooley.
They ain't the same thing at all.