LUNNEY v. PRODIGY SERVS. CO.


250 A.D.2d 230 (1998)

683 N.Y.S.2d 557

Alexander G. Lunney, Respondent, v. Prodigy Services Company, Appellant, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 28, 1998


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon, L. L. P., New York City (Michael J. Silverberg and Bruce J. Turkle of counsel), for appellant.

Lunney & Murtagh, L. L. C., White Plains (J. Robert Lunney and Phillip C. Landrigan of counsel), for respondent.

MILLER, O'BRIEN and FRIEDMANN, JJ., concur.


BRACKEN, J. P.

Some infantile practical joker with access to a computer sent an offensive electronic message (hereinafter e-mail) to a Boy Scout leader, infusing the text of the message with threats more likely to perplex than actually to intimidate an adult recipient. The intended victim of this prank appears to be less the Boy Scout leader himself than the plaintiff, Alex G. Lunney, who was then a 15-year...

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