FITCH v. DOE


869 A.2d 722 (2005)

2005 ME 39

Ronald FITCH v. John or Jane DOE # 1.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 18, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Connolly, Esq. (orally), Portland, for plaintiff.

George J. Marcus, Esq. (orally), Jennie L. Clegg, Esq., Marcus, Clegg & Mistretta P.A., Portland, for defendant.

Paul Alan Levy, Esq. (orally), Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, Zachary L. Heiden, Esq., Maine Civil Liberties Union, Portland, Cindy Cohn, Esq., Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae.

Panel: CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, ALEXANDER, CALKINS, and LEVY, JJ.


DANA, J.

[¶ 1] John or Jane Doe appeals an order entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Warren, J.) directing Time Warner Cable, Inc., to disclose identifying information about a subscriber who sent an e-mail message from an account using the name of Ronald Fitch. Fitch sought the disclosure as part of a complaint he filed against Doe alleging, inter alia, that the sender of the message misappropriated his identity. Doe contends that (1) the...

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