And Texas needs rain

[sovay]

And this is a signal boost, because the situation has spilled from whiskey tango to requiring legal aid: Davis Square LJ being sued, Massachusetts lawyers needed. Read back on davis_square for more details or just ask a surprising number of people in my life. Anyone who has advice for the defendants as to how to go about organizing themselves as such might as well speak up here, too. This is not a reasonable thing to endure happening.

derspatchel's written a song about it, which is nice.

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[jjhunter]

I went googling for Al Giordano and defamation law (the one useful 'blogging falls under 1st amendment protections' precedence I knew off the top of my head), and found the Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions's Online Defamation/Libel/Communications Decency Act-related page of US court cases.

This section of the Internet Law Library contains a host of court decisions addressing online defamation and libel claims, the jurisdictions in which they can be brought and the application of the single publication rule thereto. The cases discussed below also address the potential liability of third party publishers such as Internet Service Providers, chat room and bulletin board operators for the defamatory comments of others, and the protections they can be expect to receive in these and other situations by application of the Communications Decency Act.

A bit technical, but might be enough for someone in Davis Square LJ's extended circle who can read legalese to figure out their options.

[sovay]

A bit technical, but might be enough for someone in Davis Square LJ's extended circle who can read legalese to figure out their options.

Thanks for the link. An actual live lawyer appears to have been contacted now, but it doesn't hurt to have as much information as possible, all different ways.