Court passes on Net libel issue
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an Internet libel case and thus passed on an opportunity to set a national standard for whether someone can be sued in another state for comments made online. The Court let stand an appeals court's ruling which said that two Connecticut newspapers could not be sued for libel in a Virginia court over allegedly defamatory articles posted on their Web sites, Cnet reports. A prison warden in Virginia sued over news articles that criticized a "supermax" prison in Big Stone Gap, Va.May 22, 2003 | E-MAIL | SAVE | PRINT | PERMALINK | DISCUSS(0)
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