Lawyer Jennifer L. Peterson has an excellent article in the March, 2006 editition of Wisconsin Lawyer on "The Shifting Legal Landscape of Blogging."Legal wonks following Fremgen v. FOB should also be sure to check out the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision in Torgerson v. Journal Sentinel, Inc. Though that case did not deal with Internet defamation, the Court's opinion shows how extremely difficult it is for public official defamation plaintiffs to prove "actual malice." (The Court's actual malice findings can be found on pp. 16-27 of the opinion).
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