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  • Suit against blogger weaves legal web in Paris, Texas

    09/30/2007 1:41:32 PM PDT · by narses · 13 replies · 1,084+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 20, 2007, 9:19AM | R.G. RATCLIFFE
    An unlikely Internet frontier is Paris, Texas, population 26,490, where a defamation lawsuit filed by the local hospital against a critical anonymous blogger is testing the bounds of Internet privacy, First Amendment freedom of speech and whistle-blower rights. A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that he plans within a week to order a Dallas Internet service provider to release the blogger's name. The blogger's lawyer, James Rodgers of Paris, said Tuesday he will appeal to preserve the man's anonymity and right to speak without fear of retaliation. Rodgers said the core question in...