Free Speech

From a Justice Department press release as to the original forgery: "Michael Arnstein's blatant criminal scheme to exploit the authority of the federal judiciary for his company's benefit was outrageous. As Arnstein has learned, his attempts to remove negative reviews about his business from Google search results by forging a U.S. District Court judge's signature may have worked in the short term, but it also earned him nine months in a federal prison."

Eugene Volokh | 12.31.2025 2:39 PM

An excerpt from Arnstein v. Stein Saks, PLLC, decided last week by New York County trial court judge Judy Kim (currently being appealed) (you can also read plaintiff's Complaint and legal argument opposing the motion to dismiss):

Plaintiff alleges that defendants defamed him in their motion to dismiss an action filed against them …, Mark Goldberg v. Mark Rozenberg Esq. et al… (the "Bronx Action"). The plaintiff in the Bronx Action, Mark Goldberg, sued defendants for defamation based on statements made in yet another lawsuit, … entitled The Natural Sapphire Company v Marz Rozenberg et al.

Plaintiff contends that, as part of defendants' motion to dismiss the Bronx Action, they "gratuitously referred to [p]laintiff by name and included salacious statements regarding his past conviction—accusing him of forgery and labeling him a 'convicted felon'—without any connection to the........

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