GaryT

"The1Quiz" case is about anonymous postings made by a group of individuals, who seemed to have insider knowledge of a company's and its CEO's possible illegal business activities.

The individual CEO (not the company) sued Yahoo in Florida's 3rd district court, to force Yahoo to reveal the identities of the anonymous posters, who had revealed information about company & CEO in a financial/stock related newsgroup. CEO was claiming postings were libelous. Curiously, CEO has not claimed the content related to the purportedly illegal business activities of his company were wrong, avoiding dealing with "burden of proof" issues into whether the allegations were, in fact true.

This falls in a grey area--ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation defended one anonymous poster in the suit. CEO claims anonymous posters are "disgruntled former employees" but, of course, can't prove it without their identities.