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$3M Award for Libel on Internet Upheld


— May 20, 2003

“In its first case on Internet jurisdiction, the North Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed a $3 million libel award to a university professor who was defamed on a student’s Web site. The ruling is the latest in an area of law — Internet jurisdiction — that judges are grappling with across the country. Wagner v. Miskin, No. 20020200,” Law.com reports here.


“In its first case on Internet jurisdiction, the North Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed a $3 million libel award to a university professor who was defamed on a student’s Web site. The ruling is the latest in an area of law — Internet jurisdiction — that judges are grappling with across the country. Wagner v. Miskin, No. 20020200,” Law.com reports here.

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