Court New York Court of Appeals Chief judge Judith Kaye | Decided 2 December 1999 | |
Full case name Alexander G. Lunney v. Prodigy Services Company, et al. Citation(s) 723 N.E.2d 539; 94 N.Y.2d 242; 701 N.Y.S.2d 684 Prior action(s) Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied, Sup. Ct. Westchester Cty., July 2, 1997; renewed motion for summary judgment denied, Sup. Ct., Jan. 14, 1998; rev'd, 250 A.D.2d 230 (1999) Subsequent action(s) Cert. denied, 529 U.S. 1098 (2000) Associate Judges Joseph W. Bellacosa, George Bundy Smith, Howard A. Levine, Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, Richard C. Wesley, Albert M. Rosenblatt Majority Rosenblatt, joined by Kaye, Smith, Levine, Ciparick, Wesley People also search for Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. | ||
Lunney v. Prodigy Services Co., 94 N.Y.2d 242 (1999) is a leading U.S. law case on liability of internet service providers for defamation. The court held that Prodigy, an internet chatroom provider, was not considered a publisher of defamatory material posted from an imposter account due to its passive role in monitoring the chatrooms.
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