In a landmark court decision, a blogger has been ordered to remove dozens of posts and comments from her website and issued with a restraining order against a lawyer she harassed on-line.
Earlier this month Judge David Harvey ordered Jacqueline Sperling to take down about 90 statements about lawyer Madeleine Flannagan from her blog.
In her complaint, Flannagan said would-be legal clients trying to reach her had Googled her name and discovered the blog.
In a June 2012 ruling about the same blogger, Harvey found Sperling had harassed Flannagan and a friend online but a restraining order was not justified. But Sperling continued to post material.
In the fresh decision, Harvey ruled Sperling's posts and comments amounted to a "pattern of conduct amounting to harassment" and they must be taken down.
