Posts from September 2012.
Posted in Defamation
A recent Idaho state court opinion ordering an Idaho newspaper to unmask the identity of an anonymous commenter on the newspaper's website demonstrates, among other things, the pitfalls that come with a clumsily worded retraction.
The case, Jacobson v. Doe, arose from a blog entry posted in February 2012 on the Spokesman-Review's website about Tina Jacobson, the chair of the county Republican Central Committee. The post included a picture of Jacobson posing with then-Presidential candidate Rick Santorum and other local Republicans. In an anonymous comment to the story, a ... Read More
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