Legal Opinion
Marie Gunning v. John Doe
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided May 4, 2017No. Docket: Cum-15-558PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Majority: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.
Dissent: JABAR, J.
MEAD, J.
[¶ 1] In August 2013, Marie Gunning brought suit in the Superior Court (Cumberland County), against the anonymous publisher and writer(s) (collectively John Doe) of News as Viewed From a Crow’s Nest (Crow’s Nest), a publication distributed locally in Freeport, Maine, and accessible on the Internet,1 which Gunning claimed had published defamatory statements about her in several of its issues. After a California court quashed a subpoena that Gunning served on the Crow’s Nest’s website host…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Baker v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Shay v. WaltersCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2012
- Dendrite Intern., Inc. v. Doe No. 3New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 2001
- MacOmber v. MacQuinn-TweedieSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2003
- Cole v. ChandlerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2000
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Jamie D. Pacheco v. Libby O'Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLCSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2022
- BURR v. BOUFFARDDistrict Court, D. Maine · 2021
- Marie Gunning v. John DoeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2017