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LUNNEY v. PRODIGY SERVS. CO.

94 N.Y.2d 242 (1999)

723 N.E.2d 539

701 N.Y.S.2d 684

ALEXANDER G. LUNNEY, Appellant, v. PRODIGY SERVICES COMPANY, Respondent, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 2, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas V. Marino, New York City, and Lunney & Murtagh, L. L. C., White Plains (J. Robert Lunney of counsel), for appellant.

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

Bruce A. Taylor, Fairfax, Virginia, Paul J. McGeady, New York City, and Robin S. Whitehead for National Law Center for Children and Families and another, amici curiae.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, LEVINE, CIPARICK and WESLEY concur; Judge BELLACOSA taking no part.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENBLATT, J.

Usurping the name of Alexander Lunney (a teenage Boy Scout and infant plaintiff in this appeal), an unknown imposter opened a number of accounts with Prodigy Services Company (Prodigy), an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The imposter posted two vulgar messages in Lunney's name on a Prodigy bulletin board and sent a threatening, profane electronic mail (e-mail) message in Lunney's name to a third person. Lunney, by his...

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