Internet Defamation

The Online Forum Defamation Case of Sarkar v. Doe

Defamation lawsuit by a professor of pathology involving Internet defamation, which he claims cost him his employment at the University of Mississippi. The Plaintiff, after losing his employment due to the commentary of the online individuals, understadably sought to discover the identity of his accusers. The ACLU, not surprisingly, got involved to protect the anonymous commenters. The claim was that the First Amendment protected the anonymity of the online posters reagarding Sarkar.