Legal Opinion
Independent Newspapers, Inc. v. Brodie
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 27, 2009No. 63, September Term, 2008PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*419BATTAGLIA, Judge.
In this case, we are called upon to decide whether a circuit court judge, in a defamation action, appropriately denied a motion to quash/motion for protective order regarding a subpoena requiring, Independent Newspapers, Inc., a company that commissioned an Internet forum (for which it required participants to register), to identify five Internet forum participants known only by their pseudonyms or usernames. Independent Newspapers appealed the denial of the motion, and we granted certiorari, Independent Newspapers v. Brodie, 405 Md. 505, 954 A.2d 467 (2008), prior to any…
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