Layman's legalese sends online libel case to court
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Offer of amends 'confusing' Every element of a process designed to avoid expensive defamation trials must be followed otherwise it cannot take effect, the High Court has ruled. The ruling may result in a case of internet message board libel going to court.â¦
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Analysis Lawyer calls for urgent domain dispute reform
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Best-selling crime author Patricia Cornwell is suing another writer, claiming has posted libelous and defamatory statements about her online.
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Lawyers filed an appeal Monday on behalf of a blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president.
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In a case that involves issues as lofty as the First Amendment and as basic as which cut of meat was served, a restaurant critic is being sued for libel for describing a $15 piece of beef as "miserably tough and fatty."
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By Patrick Sennyah  Bloggers will surely remember Joseph Gutnick, the man who sued Dow Jones in 2002. In that Australian High Court case, a precedent was set that material published on the Internet is deemed to be published in the place that it is viewed, not the place of origin.
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Whether the Boston Herald's highly critical stories on a state judge were part of a libelous smear campaign or the largely accurate result of tough but fair reporting on a public figure is now up to a jury to decide.
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Kansan Uutiset, the Finnish Left Alliance party organ, was on Tuesday charged with gross libel.
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A Texas judge orders an ISP to reveal the identity of the operator of a blog that is criticizing a health care operator.
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A Finnish court ruled against a  15-year-old student in a libel case on Friday after he posted a  clip of his teacher on YouTube, ordering the youth to pay 800  euros ($1,085) in damages and a 90 euro fine.
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Keep our web sites free! Silicon Justice Is this the dawning of the age of the defamation take-down notice?â¦
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Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski  will ask England's highest court this week to allow him to sue  for libel while avoiding the risk of being extradited to the  United States for child sex offences.
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UNITED STATES   LIBELLOUS messages placed on the Internet in the United States are upheld to the same level of scrutiny as other forms of communication.
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Rep. Alcee Hastings sued his vanquished rival in the Democratic primary, asserting Wednesday that his opponent used his weekly newspaper to launch libelous attacks against him.
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George Galloway today won Â£150,000 libel damages from The Daily Telegraph over âoutrageous and incredibly damagingâ allegations that he was in the pay of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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According to court documents, the man impersonated a lawyer and sent e-mails to domain name owners threatening lawsuits if they did not give up their domain registrations.
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The author of a new book talks about recent battles in court over church and state