Introduction Contract law has always served an important role in facilitating business and economic activity. In particular, the law has long recognized the foundational nature of commercial obligations and the largely unqualified policy basis for holding parties strictly to their bargained-for positions. A significant exception to the “absolute” nature of contractual obligations arises from the […]
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Swartz v. Does: American and Canadian approaches to anonymity in internet defamation cases
A recent case illustrates that American jurisprudence is increasingly coalescing around a uniform approach to determine whether a plaintiff may compel the disclosure of an anonymous defendant’s identity in internet defamation cases. As discussed below, the Canadian experience has been different. In Swartz v. Does (“Swartz”) (see: judgement) a Tennessee state court held that plaintiffs […]