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Decisions Give Glimmer of Hope to Internet Defamation Plaintiffs
Joshua J. Grauer, Jordan Brooks and Troy D. Lipp of Cuddy & Feder write: Two of New York’s appellate courts have adopted the perhaps antiquated notion that “readers give less credence to allegedly defamatory Internet communications than they would to statements made in other milieus.” But providing a glimmer of hope to potential Internet defamation plaintiffs are three cases that seem, either expressly or implicitly, to follow dicta observing that, regardless of whether readers afford less credence to Internet postings, such an “observation is in no way intended to immunize emails the focus and purpose of which are to disseminate injurious falsehoods about their subjects.”
