Intellectual Property – Consumer Web Site – Auto Dealer Feedback – Immunity 
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Published: July 28, 2008
A car dealership cannot sue a consumer Web site on which shoppers posted negative experiences for defamation and tortious interference with business expectancy; an Alexandria U.S. District Court holds, on defendant’s motion to dismiss, that defendant Consumeraffairs. com Inc., has immunity from suit under the Communications Decency Act because the statements at issue came from ...
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