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Reeling from controversy surrounding allegations of spousal abuse, Blumenthal and his wife brought a $30 million defamation suit against Drudge and Drudge's Internet content provider, America OnLine...
...hook, and its competitors can breathe easier too. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman yesterday dismissed the service provider as a codefendant in presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal?s $30 million libel suit against Matt Drudge -- on the grounds that the 1996 Communications Decency Act absolves ISPs from responsibility for content supplied by third parties. "Whether wisely or not, [Congress] made the legislative judgment to effectively immunize providers of interactive computer services from civil liability... with respect to material disseminated by them but created by others," wrote Judge Friedman...
...ruling may even be good news for the tiny-pocketed Matt Drudge, whose entire operation is run from his apartment: ?With AOL out of the suit, there?s very little for Blumenthal to go after,? says Netly News and TIME Daily editor Josh Quittner. ?What?s he going to get -- Drudge?s fedora...
...Susan Webber Wright that Paula Jones' damages claim has no merit, but Janet Reno is not convinced. The Supreme Court today hears an appeal with direct bearing on the Jones case -- and the Justice Department has weighed in on the same side as Paula's camp. Kimberley Ellerth's suit against Burlington Industries was rejected by a lower court on the grounds that even though she might have suffered sexual harassment, she had not shown that she suffered any form of retaliation...
Undergraduate-admissions officers in California and Texas may be downgrading--or ignoring altogether--the significance of standardized tests, but don't expect their law-school counterparts to follow suit. At some elite institutions, a candidate's score on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) can count for as much as half the total application. The exam is so integral to vetting applications that even supporters of affirmative action reject the idea of dumping the LSAT as a way of recruiting more minority students. Says Michael Sharlot, dean of the University of Texas Law School, where only four blacks enrolled last...