INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS, INC.
v.
Zebulon J. BRODIE.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 27, 2009.
February 27, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Paul Alan Levy (Adina Rosenbaum, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC; Bruce W. Sanford, Mark I. Bailen, Laurie A. Babinski, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, Washington, DC), on brief, for Appellant.
Clifford M. Sloan, Amy R. Sabrin, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Washington, DC, brief of Amici Curiae Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, Cable News Network, Inc., E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Co., Inc., and Washington-Post.newsweek Interactive in Support of Appellant.
Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, Matthew B. Pollack, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, VA, brief of Amici Curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Specialized Information Publishers Ass'n, and The American Civil Liberites Union of Maryland in support of Petitioner Independent Newspapers, Inc.
E. Sean Poltrack (Foster, Braden & Thompson, LLP, Stevensville), on brief, for Appellee.
In this case, we are called upon to decide whether a circuit court judge, in a defamation action, appropriately denied a motion to quash/motion for protective order regarding a subpoena requiring, Independent Newspapers, Inc., a company that commissioned an Internet forum (for which it required participants to register), to identify five Internet forum participants known only by their pseudonyms or usernames...
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