CONCORD, N.H. (Legal Newsline) - People who retweeted a slanderous post about a school teacher can’t be sued for libel, New Hampshire’s highest court ruled, affirming the sweeping protections for Internet services Congress established under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
CONCORD The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week that people who repost false information on Twitter or other social networks cannot be sued for defamation, blocking an attempt by a middle school teacher to sue a group of people who had.
A former New Hampshire middle school teacher who sued a group of students for retweeting a defamatory post about her cannot seek monetary damages, the state’s highest court has ruled.In an opinion issued Wednesday by the New Hampshire Supreme Court,.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that people who repost false information on Twitter or other social networks cannot be sued for defamation, blocking an attempt by a middle school teacher to sue a group of people who had retweeted a prank post claiming she was “sexually perverted.”