Homeward Pet Adoption Center v. John Doe

Clinic Victory!

Jennifer Granick — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:50:46 -0700

On April 29, 2004, second-year law student JuNelle Harris, LLM student
Ohad Mayblum, and clinic director Jennifer Granick appeared in the Santa
Clara County Superior Court on behalf of John Doe, asking the court to
quash Homeward's subpoenas to Yahoo! for his personal information and that
of co-defendant Jack Doe. JuNelle Harris gave the oral argument. Opposing
counsel Jay F. Stocker, who appeared telephonically, did not argue that
any of the statements in the email at issue were false, but repeated some
of the red herrings, unrelated to the underlying defamation complaint,
that first appeared in Homeward's Opposition to this motion. The Honorable

Opposition and Reply Brief Filed

Lauren Gelman — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:22:49 -0700

Plaintiff filed an Opposition to the Motion to Quash on April 20, 2004.
Second year JuNelle Harris drafted a Reply Brief (Declaration) arguing that Plaintiff did not provided sufficient evidence or justification for the disclosure of the name of Cyberlaw Clinic's client.

Clinic Files Motion to Quash

Jennifer Granick — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:48:48 -0800

In this case, CIS filed a motion and supporting declaration asking the Santa Clara County Superior Court to quash a subpoena from Homeward Pet Adoption Center to Yahoo! seeking personal information about an anonymous e-mail send to a list of people interested in the practices and policies of the animal shelter. Homeward asserted that the "John Doe", using the pseudonym "lazlototh1900_at_yahoo.com," submitted damaging statements
concerning Homeward to a Homeward-focused mailing list. In the Motion to Quash, CIS argued that Homeward must make a threshold showing before