Has anyone else been following this?
Essentially funnyjunk.com's users uploaded a huge portion of the oatmeal's comics and funnyjunk was reaping the advertising from the copyright-infringing content. Funnyjunk's attorney sent The Oatmeal a letter demanding not only that all references to funnyjunk.com be removed, but that The Oatmeal pay $20,000.
The Oatmeal's commentary on the letter put funnyjunk's attorney's panties in a bunch and now he's personally suing the American Cancer Society, the National Wildlife Federation, The Oatmeal, and anyone else who's seen, heard of, or knows somebody who has heard of the controversy.
Naturally, a lot of people are unhappy with the attorney, and ironically the litigation threatened while representing funnyjunk.com never materialized.