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Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet
Former Premise Data CEO Maury Blackman is suing a journalist who publicized his domestic violence arrest for $25 million
His lawsuit prompted the First Amendment Coalition to sue both the city of San Francisco and California’s attorney general in federal court, to stop enforcement of the law that blocks journalists from publishing sealed arrest reports. “By publishing this report on your Substack platform and on the Tech Inquiry website, you have violated multiple legal protections, resulting in significant harm to my client’s reputation and causing emotional distress,” Marek wrote, on behalf of Blackman. Substack’s response goes further, arguing Poulson’s stories were “equally related to the public’s interest in journalism about the status of women in the technology sector generally, and efforts to improve accountability for men who engage in abusive behavior toward women.” Amazon, in its court filing, called Blackman’s arguments about his arrest “spurious.”
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