Failure to make a prima facie case that an anonymous e-mail was defamatory is grounds to quash a subpoena seeking the writer’s identity, a New Jersey appellate court says.
The Florida attorney general’s office is suing to shut down the Writer’s Literary Guild, which, along with owner Robert Fletcher, operated more than 20 Web sites and related companies to collect funds from would-be authors but allegedly misled them about fees, costs and promised results. The state received more than 175 complaints from around the world about the company.