Legal Opinion
Noah v. AOL Time Warner, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided May 15, 2003No. CIV.A. 02-1316-APublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Plaintiff, on behalf of himself and a class of those similarly situated, sues his Internet service provider (ISP) for damages and injunctive relief, claiming that the ISP wrongfully refused to prevent participants in an online chat room from posting or submitting harassing comments that blasphemed and defamed plaintiffs Islamic religion and his co-religionists. Specifically, plaintiff claims his ISP’s failure to prevent chat room participants from using the ISP’s chat room to publish the harassing and defamatory comments constitutes a breach of the…
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