49 Pa. D. & C.4th 449 - Melvin v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
January 2011
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · United States v. Nixon · Branzburg v. Hayes · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
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“If a plaintiff who has been harmed by allegedly defamatory anonymous speech cannot use the tools provided under state law to learn the identity of the speaker, anonymous Internet speech, no matter how false and injurious, would be outside the scope of civil and criminal law for all practical purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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