Legal Opinion
Firth v. State of NY
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 2, 2002PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
This appeal presents the first occasion for us to determine how our defamation jurisprudence, developed in connection with traditional mass media communications, applies to communications in a new medium — cyberspace—in the modern Information Age. Specifically, we must resolve the question whether, for statute of limitations purposes, the single publication rule is applicable to allegedly defamatory statements that are posted on an Internet site and, if so, whether an unrelated modification to a different portion of the Web site constitutes a republication.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Reno v. American Civil Liberties UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
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