Twitter takedown and court cases over the seas in Clinton & Trump Land

Lumen (formerly Chilling Effects) database record of a takedown request which saw a tweet removed and a Twitter account suspended:

DMCA Takedown Notice (Tweet)

SENDER

Kaj Eriksen Inc.

[Private], , ,Sent on October 23, 2016

RECIPIENT

Twitter

[Private]San Francisco, CA, 94103, US

Received on October 23, 2016

SUBMITTER

Twitter, Inc.

ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING URLS:

https://t.co/FaGCCC5x3X

https://twitter.com/liberalsexposed/status/790220186829791232

The Twitter hashtag timeline the offending tweet was posted in was probably #LiberalsExposed which is a thread focussing on the current U.S. presidential election.

JUSTIA Dockets and Filings:

Kittos v. Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. et al  [Former refugee sues Trump campaign]

Plaintiff David Kittos alleged that Defendants Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., Donald Trump, Sr., Donald Trump, Jr. and Michael Pence used an authorized copy of his photograph in a campaign advertisement in violation of the Copyright Act. Specifically, Defendant Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted the plaintiff's photograph with this accompanying text: "[i]f I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That's our Syrian refugee problem."

Plaintiff: David Kittos

Defendant: Donald J. Trump For President, Inc., Michael Pence, Donald Trump, Jr., Donald Trump, Sr. and Does 1-10

Case Number: 1:2016cv09818

Filed: October 18, 2016

Court: Illinois Northern District Court

Office: Chicago Office

County: XX Outside US

Presiding Judge: Gary Feinerman

Nature of Suit: Copyright

Cause of Action: 17:501 Copyright Infringement

Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff

Benaissa v. Keep America Great Pac [Democrat PAC fundraiser being sued by US surgeon over allegations found in this August 2016 political media release]

Plaintiff: Rafik Benaissa

Defendant: Keep America Great Pac, Francesca Lucia, Jon Cooper, Nathan Lerner, Scott Dworkin, Chuck Westover and Jarad Geldner

Case Number: 1:2016cv07796

Filed: October 5, 2016

Court: New York Southern District Court

Office: Foley Square Office

County: NewYork

Presiding Judge: Gregory H. Woods

Nature of Suit: Assault, Libel, and Slander

Cause of Action: 28:1332

Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff

Doe v. Trump et al [Allegations of sexual assault of a child said to have occurred in 1994]

Defendant: Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein

Plaintiff: Jane Doe

Case Number: 1:2016cv07673

Filed: September 30, 2016

Court: New York Southern District Court

Office: Foley Square Office

County: XX Out of State

Presiding Judge: Ronnie Abrams

Nature of Suit: Assault, Libel, and Slander

Cause of Action: 28:1332

Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff

Peterson v. Clinton et al [Democrat PAC fundraiser and Hillary Clinton being sued]

Defendant: Hillary Rodham Clinton, DNC Services Corporation and USA

Plaintiff: Harold Peterson

Case Number: 1:2016cv00429

Filed: September 23, 2016

Court: New Hampshire District Court

Office: Concord Office

Presiding Judge: Joseph N. Laplante

Nature of Suit: Civil Rights: Other

Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgment

Jury Demanded By: None

Allister v. Rodham Clinton et al [Self-described “Aspiring President of The United States” sues 26 people/institutions (including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) and goes down in flames on 13 December 2016]

Plaintiff: Sonja M. Allister

Defendant: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Benjamin Carson, Catherine Parrish Carpenter Andrews, Kevin Matthew Andrews, Emily McCormick, Bowdre George Longo, Roswell Police Department, C. T. Jackson, Shelby Sanford, Lynn Apt, Roswell Police Department Group, The City of Atlanta, Kasim Reed, Alpharetta Police Department, Peachtree City Police Department, Atlanta Police Department, East Point Police Department, College Park Police Department, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA, The City of Alpharetta, The City of Peachtree, The City of Roswell and The State of Georgia

Case Number: 1:2016cv03273

Filed: August 31, 2016

Court: Georgia Northern District Court

Office: Atlanta Office

County: Fulton

Presiding Judge: Richard W. Story

Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights

Cause of Action: 42:1983

Jury Demanded By: None

The second U.S. presidential debate reached peak stupid in record time on 10 October 2016

The New York Times article of 10 October 2016 pretty much sums up the second presidential debate:

Donald Trump boiled his decadent campaign down to one message during the presidential debate on Sunday night: hatred of Hillary and Bill Clinton.

With knock-kneed Republican officeholders at last summoning the nerve to desert him, Mr. Trump went to lengths to demonize Hillary Clinton — blaming her even for his own failure to pay taxes — and to remind his hard core of supporters that he is all that stands between her and the presidency.

If he were in charge, Mr. Trump told Secretary Clinton at one point, “You’d be in jail.”

When Mrs. Clinton called Mr. Trump out for his failure to apologize to the minorities, immigrants and women he’s offended, he responded by promising vengeance. Should he win, he said, he would unleash a special prosecutor to investigate her.

Sniffing and glowering, Mr. Trump prowled behind her as Mrs. Clinton presented herself again as the only adult on stage, the only one seeking to persuade the great majority of Americans that she shares their values and aspirations. Mr. Trump, by contrast, fell back on the tricks he has learned from his years in pro wrestling and reality television, making clear how deep his cynicism goes and how little regard he has for his party, let alone the presidency…..

Fortune.com has the published the full transcript online, if readers want to expose themselves to peak stupid.

Moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz well and truly earned their fee - with most of the nastiness and all of the pouting emanating from Donald Trump but towards the end both candidates regularly running over time.