When Anonymous Posters Sue Anonymous Posters

When the law suit against Law Buzz named Russell Howe, Tycho Manson, Kevin Preston, and Jenny Rutherford as defendants, the last thing anybody expected was that these defendants would start their own law suit to identify other anonymous posters.

Tycho Manson launched a lawsuit against a Blogspot site, Law Buzz Litigation, to identify anonymous posters there allegedly defaming him.  Manson was recently successful at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in receiving an order that should provide him this information.

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