VOGUE MODEL LISKULA COHEN WINS RIGHT TO UNMASK OFFENSIVE BLOGGER

UK TIMESONLINE ^ | 8-19-09 | James Bone

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A Vogue cover girl has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a “skank” on the internet.

In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions, Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger who maligned her on the Skanks in NYC blog so that she could sue him or her for defamation.

A Manhattan supreme court judge ruled that she was entitled to the information and ordered Google, which ran the offending blog, to turn it over.

Ms Cohen, a tall, Canadian blonde who has modelled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, went to court after reading the wounding anonymous comments on Google’s Blogger.com.

Justice Joan Madden rejected the blogger’s claim that the blogs “serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting”, and should not be treated as factual assertions...

[Wardenclyffe]

[BJClinton]

Kinda scary.

In court they’ll have to define “skank” and whether or not she qualifies as one.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

She really does. It’s freaky.

[1000 silverlings]

The comments are akin to something everyone throws around in grade school, likely high school too. Are we going to start suing schoolkids next? Where does it end? I'll tell you where:

At some UN hate crimes trial. The only people who will be unable to sue will be Christians.

[Vision]

Here’s what a skank(she) looks like.

http://internetdefamationblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/liskulacohen.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WBjGtFQOJDw/SWSqh-3iZOI/AAAAAAAAJb8/qq_G9mZVJEk/s320/skank2.jpg

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/liskula-cohen.jpg

[Dutchboy88]

Very disconcerting. We’ll need to vet postings through the “legal” dept or face jail? With all of the attorneys out of work now, imagine how many contingency suits will soon be filed.

[Mr. Lucky]

How could anyone think that young girl is a skank?

By the way, do you have any pictures which show her face?

[Vision]

How could anyone think that young girl is a skank?

Is that a joke? Anyway, see post 45.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Skanky, but playful...

[stylecouncilor]

LOL!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

I guess that means now if you want to blog about some model having a plastic nose and chunky thighs you’ll have to register under a fake name thru a proxy server with the site hosted in the Principality of Sealand...

[grjr21]

Yesterday the Post was able to track down and briefly harass the formerly anonymous blogger, now known to be 29-year-old Rosemary Port, who slurred model Liskula Cohen as a skank and a hag and so on. They also discovered that, according to sources, Port became incensed after Cohen talked some trash about her to Port's boyfriend.

 

 

Cat fight !!

[Jewbacca]

She looks like a good cross-dresser.

I’d hit it, reluctantly, and well-hopped on Scotch.

[Jewbacca]

This looks skankish behavior to me, if that is the same person.

[Jewbacca]

VERY skanky photograph. I am thinking the defense of the case might be truth.

[Lurker]

Laz my friend, you’d hit a snake if someone held it still for you.

[Lazamataz]

I’m in love.

[KosmicKitty]

Well, skank or not, this woman has now made sure that her name and the term “skank” will forever be entwined, impossible to mention one with out the other popping into people minds.

And she does look like she could use a bit of facial reconstruction, starting with her nose. Might help her overcome the tranny look.

[Lazamataz]

I’d hit Lazamataz.

[Jewbacca]