A lawsuit that two women students at Yale Law School brought against people who anonymously attacked them on the law-students’ chat site, AutoAdmit, may end up going nowhere, according to posts today in Ars Technica and Slashdot.
The posts say that the lawyers for the two students have been unable to identify those who berated them online because AutoAdmit operators did not keep track of the Internet addresses of those who posted to the site. The lawyers have been making desperate attempts to get the names of the defendants, even requesting records from Microsoft, the University of North Carolina, ServInt Internet Services, PenTeleData, GoDaddy, and other Internet-based businesses, according to Ars Technica.
But officials from the companies have told the plaintiffs’ lawyers that they don’t keep records going back beyond two to three months, or that they would need a judge’s order to gain access to the records.—-Andrea L. Foster
