Libel: (not A2)

[mpearce@crl.com (Matthew Pearce)]

I found this jem on the Motherboard [Future Vision site #8 415/991-4832]
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 Number       : 9 of 9                                 [ The Global News 
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 Subject      : Be careful what you write
 Addressed to : All
 Author       : Mok@next-gen.calif.fnet.org
 Date Posted  : Sunday, May 15th, 1994  07:55:02 PST (931 bytes)
 Size         : 931 bytes
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 COMPANY SUES INTERNET USER FOR LIBEL OVER NETWORK REMARKS
 
  A company marketing products on the Internet computer
network has filed a libel suit against a man who criticized
the company in an article distributed to other network
users.
 
  The suit is believed to be the first time an Internet user
has been sued for libel, said Bruce W. Sanford, a lawyer
with the Washington law firm of Baker and Hostetler.
Stanford is representing Brock Meeks of Spotsylvania County,
VA, whose article about Suarez Corporation Industries of
North Canton, Ohio, prompted the suit, filed March 22 in
Common Pleas Court in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
 
  The suit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction
baring Meeks from writing about the company in the future.
 
  Meeks, a reporter for Communications Daily in Washington,
occasionally writes articles of his own from home and sends
them on Internet, the worldwide personal computer network.
 
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