On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
In what was apparently the first Internet defamation case to involve both an anonymous plaintiff and anonymous defendants, the Supreme Court of Virginia refused to grant an unidentified company access to America Online's confidential subscriber information unless the firm agreed to reveal its identity.
I'm missing something here. How is it even possible for an anonymous plaintiff to show defamation? Defamation is identity-linked.
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