Enigma Software Group USA, LLC v. Bleeping Computer LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that, “by alleging that [the defendant] earns a commission on directed sales of [a third party’s] products, the [plaintiff] adequately pleads that [the defendant] has an economic incentive to engage in such promotion”
• concluding that, “by alleging that [the defendant] earns a commission on directed sales of [a third party’s] products, the [plaintiff] adequately pleads that [the defendant] has an economic incentive to engage in such promotion”
• finding grossly irresponsible standard met where pleadings alleged that defendant “knowingly or recklessly relied on discredited and outdated sources”
• declining to dismiss claims where internet posts went “beyond merely hyperlinking” to the original post and instead “contain[ed] additional statements which [plaintiff] alleges are themselves defamatory”
• explaining that where “the predicate facts are disclosed but are false, such that the disparity between the stated facts and the truth would cause a reader to question the opinion’s validity, the opinion may be an actionable defamatory opinion” (quotation marks, brackets, and citation omitted)
• “New York law absolutely protects statements of pure opinion, such that they can never be defamatory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  S.D. New York· 2017-05-12· cited 35×
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  S.D. Illinois· 2018-08-29· cited 22×
• Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
  S.D. New York· 2017-08-23· cited 12×
• Frascatore v. Blake
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-09-25· cited 6×
• Nat'l Rifle Ass'n of Am. v. Cuomo
  N.D. New York· 2018-11-06· cited 5×
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Cites

106 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
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  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
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  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
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  Supreme Court· 2014-03-25· cited 2,704×
• Arista Records, LLC v. Doe 3
  Second Circuit· 2010-04-29· cited 2,656×
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  Supreme Court· 1967-10-09· cited 1,899×
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  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
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  Fourth Circuit· 2009-12-29· cited 1,712×
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  Supreme Court· 1983-06-24· cited 941×
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  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 626×
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  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 442×
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  Second Circuit· 2000-04-12· cited 323×
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  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-10-23· cited 296×
• Chapadeau v. Utica Observer-Dispatch, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-12-04· cited 293×
• Batzel v. Smith
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-06-24· cited 290×
• Gross v. New York Times Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-10-21· cited 285×
• Fair Housing Coun., San Fernando v. Roommates. Com
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-04-03· cited 279×
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  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-05-12· cited 270×
• Immuno AG. v. Moor-Jankowski
  New York Court of Appeals· 1991-01-15· cited 247×