If anyone can get past the "No Cookie" monster to the actual text of this link, let me know. :-). Cheers, RAH At 5:36 AM -0600 on 8/5/02, GigaLaw.com wrote:

Jury Rules for Defense in $700 Million Net Defamation Case In one of the first trials in the nation to address Internet defamation, a Dallas County, Texas, jury rejected a $700 million suit by an Internet company that claimed it was harmed by negative electronic messages. Dallas' ZixIt alleged that Paul Guthrie, formerly a vice president with Visa, posted more than 400 anonymous messages, many negative, about ZixIt on a Yahoo Internet message board, causing ZixIt's stock price to drop. Read the article: law.com @

http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1028320303259&t=LawArticleTech

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