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A Tennessee state court refused to unmask an anonymous blogger last week, citing the recent Maryland high court decision that upheld a balancing test for identifying anonymous speakers on the Internet, the Citizen Media Law Project reports.
A blogger fighting a sweepingly broad subpoena that is seeking the identities of hundreds of his readers filed a motion in Virginia court on Thursday arguing that their identities should be protected.
The York Daily Record/Sunday News reports that the company that owns its online readers' comment section is expected to turn over the personal information of anonymous individuals who commented on a Daily Record/Sunday News story about a Dec. 28 murder.
A gossip Web site that took college campuses by storm has shut down.
As of Feb. 5, JuicyCampus is no longer up and running, according to The Associated Press. CEO Matt Ivester, who founded the site in 2007, said in a statement online that “in these historically difficult economic times, online ad revenue has plummeted and venture capital funding has dissolved."
A Virginia-based blogger is fighting a subpoena that seeks the identities of everyone who viewed an online article he wrote about a defamation lawsuit, the Citizen Media Law Project reports.
Another newspaper has prevailed in a court battle over the identities of people who commented anonymously on its Web site.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania held last month that The Pocono Record did not have to reveal the identities of several people who commented anonymously on an article the paper wrote about a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the Pocono Medical Center.
A supermodel has demanded that Google release the identity of a blogger who called her a "skank" and an "old hag", reports the New York Daily News.
Liskula Cohen filed the defamation suit in a New York state court, and asked the judge to issue a court order requiring Google to identify the person she says defamed her on a blog operated by its Blogger.com service.
So-called "bump messages" -- new comments made to older messages in order to move them back up to prominent positions on a Web site and keep a conversation alive -- do not count as republication in the libel context, a New York judge wrote in an opinion last week.
A Maryland appeals court heard oral arguments Monday over the outing of anonymous Web writers responsible for posting online allegedly defamatory remarks about a Dunkin’ Donuts store, according to The Washington Post.
A University of Delaware student is withdrawing a lawsuit filed this month over allegedly libelous statements made on the Web site JuicyCampus.com, nipping in the bud what could have been a test of the site's sweeping support of anonymous speech on the Internet.
