Tag: social media

July 2, 2018 NHL

Wife of Erik Karlsson Seeks Protection Order from Mike Hoffman’s Fiancée

News broke on June 12, 2018, that on May 4, the wife of Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson, Melinda, filed an order of protection against Karlsson’s former teammate Mike Hoffman’s longtime partner, Monika Caryk. According to the application, Caryk had been threatening Melinda and Erik Karlsson since November 2017. Caryk allegedly posted over 1,000 negative and derogatory statements on social media about Melinda. Also, Caryk allegedly “uttered that she wished [Melinda] was dead and that someone should ‘take out’ [Karlsson’s] legs to ‘end his career.'” …

October 14, 2016 General

National Labor Relations Board’s Counsel Finds Some Limits on Players Unlawful

On October 10, 2016, the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel declared that some Northwestern University football team rules were unlawful pursuant to an advice memorandum dated September 22, 2016. This ruling found that the players must be freely allowed to post on social media, discuss issues of their health and safety, and speak with the media.

While this ruling has no force of law on the other sixteen private schools, if a similar complaint is ever filed at one of those schools, this memorandum …

August 11, 2016 NFL

The NFL Becomes First Official Snapchat Sports Partner

The National Football League (NFL) became the first sports league to have a presence on Snapchat’s “Discover” platform. The NFL and Snapchat first partnered in 2015, and more than 70 million people viewed Snapchat’s Live Stories of NFL games and events. This extended partnership will include Live Stories for every NFL game, 32 NFL geofilters for every NFL team, and offer opportunities for NFL advertising in the stories.

The NFL release stated: “The launch of the NFL on Discover will provide a key touch …

August 25, 2015 Celebrities

Drug Promotion on Social Media By Consumers: Can It Be Regulated?

This post first appeared on Goldberg Segalla’s Life Science Matters blog.

Kim Kardashian recently used social media to promote the use of a prescription drug. In her Instagram post, Ms. Kardashian told her followers that a physician recommended use of the drug Diclegis to alleviate her symptoms of morning sickness. Ms. Kardashian is not the only public figure to recently deal with morning sickness as the Duchess of Cambridge also dealt with this issue, reported here.

Having experienced positive results following the use of …

September 25, 2014 Fraud

Red Carpet Makeup Mobile Owner Arrested for Violation of Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Fashion meets fraud in a bizarre workers’ compensation investigation in New York.

Ms. Nneka Ingram was previously featured in a June 2014 news article on CBS New York and is a former MTA bus driver who reportedly spent $20,000 on a “bling and makeup mobile.” A short commercial posted in July 2014 is available on YouTube detailing the origins and services of Ms. Ingram’s business, the Celebrities Mobile Boutique.

However, CBS New York has reported that Ms. Ingram was recently arrested on charges of grand …

April 30, 2013 Antitrust

Settlement Allows PeopleBrowsr to Continue Drinking From Twitter’s Firehose Through End of 2013

On April 25, 2013, Twitter Inc. and PeopleBrowsr Inc. (a social media data analytics company) settled a lawsuit in California federal court over alleged violations of various anti-competition statutes. PeopleBroswr filed suit against Twitter last November after Twitter threatened to cut off the company’s access to the “Firehose” data feed.

Currently, PeopleBroswr purchases social media data from Twitter through the company’s “Firehose” feed, a constantly flowing source of information generated by all of the ‘tweets’ that flows through Twitter on a second-by-second basis. In order …