Mission Creek

from New York Law Journal
I think this is a correct rulling by the court which shows a modern and viable interpretation of the law.

The posting of a comment on a subscription-based Web site constitutes a single publication under New York state defamation law, a Manhattan judge has ruled.

The decision takes an expansive reading of the seminal 2002 Court of Appeals case Firth v. State of New York, 98 NY2d 365, which held that postings on publicly available Internet sites constitute single publications

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