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Philadelphia courts 'on lookout for filings against "phantom" defendants'

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Max Mitchell (the Legal Intelligencer) writes about the Philadelphia courts' response to the suspicious court cases with missing defendants that are aimed at getting Web pages taken down or deindexed—four of the 25 cases that fit the pattern Paul Alan Levy and I wrote about were in Philadelphia.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.