Law Practice
Sep. 11, 2019
UCLA professor uncovers nationwide scams involving fake court orders
Eugene Volokh found eight types of de-indexing scams including: outright court forgeries; fake stipulated injunctions involving both fake defendants and fake notaries; default judgments obtained without looking for the defendant; plaintiffs who sued a single webpage commentator rather than the author; and orders obtained based on fake author recantations.
UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh recently uncovered a host of forged court orders and related scams aimed at getting webpages removed from search engines, or “de-indexed,” without a legitimate court proceeding.
Volokh, a leading First Amendment scholar, found more than 200 court orders that were either outright forgeries or probably obtained through deceit, he said. These “orders” were sent to search engines, mostly Google,...
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