John Byrne of the Chicago Tribune updates us on the online defamation case covered here a few weeks ago. The case involves a Buffalo Grove, Illinois politician, Lisa Stone, who is seeking the name of someone who allegedly defamed her teenage son in online posts. Cook County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ordered the Daily Herald…
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University’s libel suit highlights growing online dilemma
A libel lawsuit filed by Butler University highlights the dangers of certain types of online postings. The university is suing an anonymous blogger for comments posted last year on a blog that the school contends includes defamatory statements about two high-level administrators. The blog has since been removed. University officials said they strongly support freedom…
Police ready to ‘take on’ commenters, chief says
Tony Plohetski reports: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo says he and some of his officers have been harassed, lied about and had their identities falsely used in online blogs and in reader comment sections on local media Internet sites. They’ve had enough. In a meeting this month with department brass, Acevedo and the group discussed…
Why a New York court unmasked the blogger who wrote harshly about a model
Julie Hilden, an attorney with a special interest in First Amendment law, recently took the New York courts somewhat to task for their lax standard in the case involving Rosemary Port and Liskula Cohen. She writes, in part: But could any reasonable person have read this material and truly believed, with any degree of confidence,…