Obviously, Blogging is Here to Stay…

An important ruling was handed down last Friday by a federal appeals court that directly impacts all bloggers.  According to Reuters:

A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently…"

The law professor explained that these kinds of cases are usually settled without trial and to see one reach the federal appeals court level was rare.

After the ruling in favor of Cox, her attorney (Volokh) had this to say:

"It makes clear that bloggers have the same First Amendment rights as professional journalists," he said. "There had been similar precedents before concerning advocacy groups, other writers and book authors. This follows a fairly well established chain of precedents. I believe it is the first federal appeals court level ruling that applies to bloggers."

http://ninthcircuitcrystalcoxappeal.blogspot.com/ 
Source and Full Article
 http://thewartburgwatch.com/2014/01/22/court-rules-bloggers-have-first-amendment-protection/

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