A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

An interesting story from the New York Times on defamation...

Cheers
David

A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction
Two years ago, when Stanley Young, a Virginia prison warden, learned
that two Connecticut newspapers had written stories about his
prison's treatment of inmates from that state, he went to read the
four articles on the Internet. He did not much like what he saw.

"I was a lot angry," recalled Mr. Young, head of Wallens Ridge State
Prison, a maximum-security prison in Big Stone Gap, Va. "There's a
difference between an inmate calling you an S.O.B. and newspapers
publishing false accusations and publishing them throughout the
world."

 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/technology/27ELAW.html?todaysheadlines

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