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Last November, a federal jury in Portland found a Montana-based blogger liable for $2.5 million for defaming an Oregon State Bar member and his company online. The trial set the stage for legal issues followed by First Amendment lawyers, bloggers and traditional journalists around the country, and which cause them to ask what legal protections should apply to people who use the Internet to defame others. Janine Robben reports on the blogosphere's "poster child" for online vitriol. |