Recent decisions about libel and anonymity on the net

Check out Cleveland blogger Erin O'Brien [1]'s post, A beautiful comeuppance [2], on a Manhattan Supreme Court judge's decision to require Google to reveal the identity of a [previously anonymous] blogger found guilty of defamation, having called a semi-famous fashion model a “a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her age, skank.”

See The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers [3] for a bit more on the legal precedents involved.