Sheldon Toplitt writes:
The Indiana Court of Appeals last week ordered Marion County Superior Court Judge S.K. Reid to review her ruling last March to compel theIndianapolis Star to identify an online anonymous poster whose comments are part of an ongoing defamation suit (see “TUOL” post 3/4/11).
The Indianapolis Business Journal reported that to preserve the proper balance between First Amendment-protected anonymous speech and unprotected defamatory speech, the appellate court ordered Judge Reid to apply the test articulated by a New Jersey appellate court in Dendrite International Inc. v. Does 1-14, 2001 WL 770406 (N.J. Super. A.D.) (Case No. A-2774-00T3).
Read more on The Unruly of Law. The IBJ article referenced in the post can be found here.