Legal Opinion
Universal Communication Systems, Inc. v. Lycos, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 23, 2007No. 06-1826PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Universal Communication Systems, Inc. and its chief executive officer, *415Michael J. Zwebner, (collectively, “UCS”) brought suit, objecting to a series of allegedly false and defamatory postings made under pseudonymous screen names on an Internet message board operated by Ly-cos, Inc. UCS identified two of the screen names as having been registered to Roberto Villasenor, Jr. UCS sued not only Vil-lasenor and the other posters of messages, as John Does, but also Lycos and Terra Networks, S.A., Lycos’s corporate parent at the time of the postings in question.
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