DOE v. CAHILL

No. 266, 2005.

884 A.2d 451 (2005)

John DOE No. 1, Movant Below, Appellant, v. Patrick CAHILL and Julia Cahill, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: October 5, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Finger of Finger & Slanina, L.L.C., Wilmington, DE, for appellant.

Robert J. Katzenstein (argued) and Robert K. Beste, III of Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE, for appellees.

Paul Alan Levy (argued) and Allison M. Zieve of Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC; Norman M. Monhait of Rosenthal Monhait Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lawrence A. Hamermesh of Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, DE, for amici curiae.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices, constituting the court en banc.


STEELE, Chief Justice.

The defendant-appellant, John Doe No. 1, anonymously posted allegedly defamatory statements about the plaintiff-appellee, Cahill, on an internet blog. Cahill brought a defamation action. Seeking to serve process on Doe, Cahill sought to compel the disclosure of his identity from a third party that had the information. A Superior Court judge applied a good faith standard to test the plaintiff's complaint...

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