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    Everything online journalists need to protect their legal rights. This free resource culls from all Reporters Committee resources and includes exclusive content on digital media law issues.

    Anonymous commenters

    Las Vegas paper to comply with narrowed subpoena

    Jonathan Jones | Reporter's Privilege | Quicklink | June 22, 2009
    Jonathan Jones
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    June 22, 2009

    Even as the Las Vegas Review-Journal said it will cooperate with a narrowed subpoena from federal prosecutors for information about two anonymous comments left below an online news story, the ACLU announced it would seek to quash the subpoenas on behalf of the commenters, the paper reported last week.

    U.S. attorney seeks identities of anonymous commenters

    Jonathan Jones | Reporter's Privilege | Quicklink | June 10, 2009
    Jonathan Jones
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    June 10, 2009

    The Las Vegas Review-Journal is facing a federal subpoena for identifying information about people who commented on its Web site, the newspaper disclosed Sunday.