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Updated: Monday, October 13, 2008 at 2:11am

Lawyers to name defendants in AutoAdmit case

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Published Thursday, July 31, 2008
Anonymous commenting may have just gotten a little less anonymous. With the help of a subpoena issued six months ago, attorneys for two Yale Law School students have succeeded in unmasking several anonymous users of the Web forum AutoAdmit whom the women are suing for defamation. Some of the defendants will finally be named when the students soon file an amended complaint, said their attorney, Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley, who declined to comment further.
#1 By Sad to see this (Unregistered User) 2:05pm on August 1, 2008

This is a poorly written story. First of all, your facts are off. Just one illustrative example: AK47 (whose name has no hyphen) said that he and one of the Yale students were gay lovers, along with a third person. He did not say that the two Yale students were gay lovers with each other.

This looks like you just lifted portions of the story from the WSJ Law Blog, then managed to insert factual errors into the plagiarized material. Disgraceful.

#2 By re: sad to see this (Unregistered User) 4:15pm on August 1, 2008

I think you misread the sentence about the gay lovers. The reporter correctly stated that AK47 alleged that he himself was the law student's gay lover. Maybe re-read before you post such harsh criticisms.

#3 By (Anonymous) 4:30pm on August 1, 2008

#1, you clearly need to read more carefully, because the wsj law blog GOT ITS INFORMATION from this article. please fact check your comment before writing it.

#4 By Andrew M. 5:36pm on August 1, 2008

Dear Commenter #1:

I must respond to your troubling accusation that the News reporter plagiarized the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. As is plain from the Journal's post — and the fact that the Yale Daily News posted this story before WSJ — this notion is patently false. "Today, we can update the story," the Journal's Dan Slater wrote on the blog, "thanks to the Yale Daily News." End of discussion.

We take charges of plagiarism seriously. And readers with concerns can contact me at editor@yaledailynews.com. In this case, however, the record must be corrected.

Sincerely,

Andrew Mangino

Editor in Chief

#5 By Score one on the side of right! (Unregistered User) 8:54am on August 4, 2008

I'm pleased to see this. It is so disheartening that bullies could be hiding behind the first amendment. Menacing is not a first amendment right and Williams is a complete evil jerk to pretend it is so. I certainly hope that public exposure on the internet and other media of the perpetrator(s) will result in a humiliating ruin of their formerly bright careers, as I hope it will for the undergrad weenie who videotaped his sexual encounter. It is such a delight to see the power of digital technology turn on those who would use it to exploit and demean others. I can only hope for expulsion as well as success prosecution!

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