On August 16, 2007, a lawyer named Liu Xiaoyuan sued Sohu in the Hatian district (Beijing) court for breach of service contract. Liu asked the court to restore and display nine essays of his that had been blocked by Sohu... On July 31, Liu especially wrote an essay titled in which he said that his essays were neither reactionary nor pornographic and so there was no reason to prevent them from being displayed... This is supposed to be the first case in China in which someone sued a blog service provider for breach of contract through blocking blog posts.