DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IDENTITY-THEFT CASE involving Raphael Golb and the Dead Sea Scrolls:
First, last week New York's highest court agreed to hear Golb's appeal. Second, also last week, two bloggers received e-mails from Lawrence Schiffman's lawyer demanding that they remove blog posts that have dealt with the case. The relevant discussion is in the following posts.
By prominent legal blogger Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy:
Prof. Lawrence Schiffman’s Lawyer Demands Removal of Post Containing the Text of a Court Opinion
New York’s Highest Court Agrees to Hear the Golb (Dead Sea Scrolls) E-Mail Impersonation Case
By another legal blogger, Scott H. Greenfield, at the Simple Justice blog:
Schiffman, Meet Streisand (Update!!! x4)
Blogger Ken White at Popehat has also involved himself and added some commentary and information:
Barbra? Barbra Streisand? Never Heard of Her. Now, Back To My Threat.
I have blogged extensively on the case (start here and just keep following the links back) but I have not been involved in this particular blog-related situation, except to e-mail Professor Schiffman to ask if he wanted to comment on it for PaleoJudaica. In view of the current status of the case, he was advised not to do so.
UPDATE (19 March): Dead link now fixed. Sorry about that. Also, related, another Blogospheric reaction, this one from techdirt: The Internet Is For Baseless Legal Threats: Popehat, Greenfield And Volokh Triple-Streisand Edition!