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Overturn Sullivan Now
Last month, a federal court in Minnesota dismissed an invasion of privacy lawsuit brought by former Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Matt Kalil against his ex-wife, former beauty queen and current social media influencer Haley Kalil. Kalil v. Kalil, 0:26-cv-00062 (D. Minn. 2026). The lawsuit alleged that Haley violated Matt’s privacy by publishing a lurid description…
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The Lost Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
As a defamation attorney, I deal quite a bit with doxxing scenarios. From time to time, my firm is contacted by potential clients embroiled in Israel-Palestine related controversies. These situations increasingly involve doxxing. The latest Palestine-related doxxing snafu goes like this: a KPMG manager named Yuen Lee got herself filmed in a New York City…
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There Is No Such Thing As ‘Journalism’
My late cousin Harvey was a journalist—first a newspaper reporter, then a professor of mass communications. He was a beatnik who hung out with Neal Cassidy, and used to party with the cast of Hair. “When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars…” You know what I’m talking about. In…
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Lindsay Clancy and America’s Jungian Shadow
According to a well-worn adage, “a good lawyer knows the law, a great lawyer knows the judge.” I don’t know a lot of judges, but I know a lot of judges in the sense that basic deductive reasoning goes a long way in strategizing litigation. In other words, the judge is a human being with…
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The Shiloh Hendrix Verdict Is a Sham
In May 2025, Shiloh Hendrix took her child to a park in Rochester, Minnesota. A nine-year old Somali boy tried to steal something from her handbag, and Hendrix reacted by calling him the n-word. An adult bystander, a Somali man called Sharmake Omar, then confronted Hendrix while filming her with his phone. The ensuing video…
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You Cannot Plead Around the First Amendment
In a previous post, I described my experience going viral on X after weighing in on a recent doxxing and antisemitism scandal. TLDR: a Cornell undergrad received outreach from a potential employer on a messaging app, and responded with an antisemitic jibe. The employer posted the message on X with the kid’s name redacted, a…
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Was Austin Franco Doxxed?
Austin Franco is a 19-year old Cornell student who is in the news this week after replying to a job offer, in writing, by stating that he is “not interested in working for a jew [sic].” Franco sent that message through Handshake, a professional networking app that connects students with employers. He sent it to…
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Chud the Builder is a Chickenshit
Chud the Builder is a live streamer who goes around yelling racial slurs at black people and filming their reactions, which he broadcasts for updoots. He carries a gun just in case. This week he ended up using it, and getting charged with attempted murder in Tennessee, after getting his ass kicked by a man he’d…
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Becoming a Defamation Attorney
How does one get into the practice of defamation law? I don’t suppose that’s a very interesting question for non-attorneys. But then, autobiographical anecdotes are always engaging. Warren Buffet says, “Don’t invest in what you don’t understand.” There are many areas of practice that I don’t understand. But the First Amendment is fairly straightforward. I…
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Freedom of Shut the Fuck Up
Sometime in the 2010s, baseball was eclipsed as the national pastime. If you think it was replaced by the NFL, you’re wrong. It was replaced by social media psychodrama. It was replaced by voyeurism and citizen “journalism.” It was replaced by defamation. Defamation is the national pastime. Tattle-telling on social media is the national pastime.…