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Court Shields Bloggers From Disclosing Names
Court News | 2008/07/09 07:22
A group of Internet users successfully fought a subpoena seeking their identities for comments written on a blog, but they are not entitled to attorney fees, a California appeals court ruled.

Mordecai Tendler asked Google for subpoenas to get the IP addresses of Web users who allegedly defamed him on jewishwhistleblower.blogspot.com.

When Google refused to comply with the subpoena orders, Tendler requested similar subpoenas for the Blogspot addresses of rabbinicintegrity, jewishsurvivors, and newhempsteadnews. The unnamed Doe defendants fought back with a motion to strike.

Justice Mihara reversed the lower court's award of $42,000 in attorney fees and costs after Tendler ultimately withdrew the subpoenas. Mihara ruled that a request for a subpoena does not fall within the anti-SLAPP statute.

Even the broadest interpretation of the (statute) cannot stretch it to cover a subpoena, the judge ruled. A request for a subpoena is not a complaint.

Mihara also noted that the third-party subpoena request was not even served on the Internet users and could not possibly be expected to initiate a 'cause of action' against that adverse party.


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