I’ve blogged before about Moore v. Hoff, a Minnesota case in which a jury ordered a blogger (John Hoff, who blogs as Johnny Northside) to pay $60,000 to a university official because the blogger blogged the truth about the official, intending to get him fired. Today, the Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the verdict, in […]
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$60,000 Damages for Blogging the Truth About Someone, Intending to Get the Person Fired
Last year, I blogged about Moore v. Hoff, a Minnesota case in which a jury ordered a blogger to pay $60,000 to a university official because the blogger blogged the truth about the official, intending to get him fired. I am told that Monday morning, the Minnesota Court of Appeals will hand down a decision […]
$60,000 Damages for Blogging the Truth About Someone, Intending to Get the Person Fired
I blogged about the Johnny Northside case (Moore v. Hoff) when the verdict came down, but there’s now a moderately detailed trial court opinion refusing to set the verdict aside. Here’s an excerpt from a Minneapolis Star-Tribune article about this latest development: The jury ruled last March that [John] Hoff’s scathing blog post amounted to […]
$60,000 Damages for Blogging the Truth About Someone, Intending to Get The Person Fired
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: Controversial north Minneapolis blogger John Hoff must pay $60,000 in damages to a former Jordan Area Community Council executive director Jerry Moore, a jury in the civil case concluded Friday. The Hennepin County District Court jury found that an “Adventures of Johnny Northside” blog post in June 2009 resulted in […]