August 2, 2002
Minnesota Court Rules in an Online-Libel Case
A decision in July by the Minnesota Supreme Court could influence libel cases involving chat rooms, newsgroups, and e-mail discussion lists. The court ruled that an Alabama scholar could not collect on a libel ruling from a court in her state against a Minnesota scholar who had criticized her in an online newsgroup.
The case involves two Egyptologists, Marianne Luban and Katherine Griffis, who exchanged a series of testy messages on a public archaeology newsgroup in 1996 and
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