Court Hears E-Jurisdiction Case
By AAN Staff
june 11, 2002 12:32 pm
"Newspapers want the benefit of being read worldwide but not the responsibility that comes with it," an attorney told a federal appeals court June 3
in Stanley Young vs. The New Haven
Advocate. The libel lawsuit by a Virginia prison warden is an appeal of a federal district
court ruling in Virginia that granted
jurisdiction because the Connecticut
newspapers that he was suing
published their material on the
Web. AAN joined
amicus briefs in support of the publishers
in both Young and Gutnick vs. Barron's, a
similar case before Australia's highest
court. The case may be the first federal appellate ruling on whether a newspaper can be sued
anywhere its Web site is read.