A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled Monday that a blogger can’t hide behind anonymity while defaming people.
Super model Liskula Cohen filled a defamation lawsuit after an anonymous blogger made malicious and untrue comments that concerned her appearance, hygiene and sexual conduct on his/her Blogger page. She maintained that the blog constituted defamation per se in that it impugned her chastity and negatively reflected on her business as a professional full-time model.
In court, Google refused to identify the person and the blogger’s attorney unsuccessfully argued that the defamatory remarks were “non-actionable opinion and/or hyperbole”.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden shot down Google and the anonymous blogger and ordered the immediate release of the blogger’s identity, specifically that person’s or persons’ name(s), address(es), email address(es), IP address(es), telephone number(s) and all other information that would assist in ascertaining the identity of that person or persons.
You can read the court decision here.
Once Liskula Cohen learns the identity of the blogger who’s been flinging the garbage, then she can and likely will proceed with a defamation suit.
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