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A Salisbury, Md. police chief settled his defamation suit against a blogger there this week, reportedly on "non-monetary" terms.
Salisbury Chief Allan Webster's case was due to go to trial Wednesday when blogger Joe Albero announced on his Web site, sbynews.blogspot.com, that the matter had been resolved. Albero did not disclose the terms.
The domestic and international blogging communities are increasingly facing lawsuits and threats of legal action, the Christian Science Monitorreported on Wednesday.
An online sports hoax bashing the Oklahoma Sooners has Nebraska football fan James W. Conradt in hot water with the publisher of the state’s largest newspaper and one of its sportswriters, according to The Associated Press.
Tennessee’s shield law may be put to the test if blogger Thaddeus Matthews is subpoenaed in connection to a leak surrounding a police officer’s murder.
Although no subpoena has been issued, Matthews has gained the support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) legal counsel today in the case he is confronted with one.
A rare prior restraint on speech has turned up in an unlikely place -- a divorce case -- with a Vermont judge ordering a husband to take down blog postings about his wife and their dissolving marriage. The husband called his postings a "fictionalized account of the marriage" according to a New York Times article, but the wife contended they are defamatory statements and the judge ordered the posts be removed pending a February hearing.
CBS in Los Angeles reports that a Los Angeles judge dismissed a defamation suit against blogger Perez Hilton (nee Mario Lavandeira) for postings on his Web site about disc jockey Samantha Ronson and her relationship with actress Lindsay Lohan.
