Takedown Is Not An Agreement

Public Citizen, a national non-profit, won an appeal reversing an injunction against a man who created a web site criticizing his doctors. The appeal overturned a 2005 ruling that the initial removal of the criticisms to avoid a threatened lawsuit constituted an agreement to waive free speech rights concerning future criticism.

Public Citizen’s press release includes the full opinion [PDF]. Via Techdirt.

Posted by Stuart Sierra in News on Thu Mar 15, 2007. Link to this post. Tagged with internet, web, defamation, libel, medicine, First Amendment, free speech.