E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of March 17, 2008

We thought JuicyCampus might be the next Internet gossip site to suffer from unwanted legal scrutiny and it turns out we were right:  New Jersey law enforcement officials have been investigating JuicyCampus for at least a month and claim that the site violates the state's Consumer Fraud Act.

(Links:  Gossip Gone Wild at ABC News and College gossip site under scrutiny at Yahoo! News)

A Vermont court has applied Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in dismissing a defamation suit brought against the operators of iBrattleboro.com.

(Link:  Libel Suit Tossed Against Local News Site at Media Law)

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