Township of Manalapan v. Moskovitz, No. MON-L-2893-07 (N.J. Super., Monmouth County filed June 13, 2007)

Status: Subpeona quashed

As part of a malpractice lawsuit against its former town attorney, the Township of Manalapan subpoenaed Google (Owner Of Blogspot) to determine the identity of the blogger "datruthsquad" (http://datruthsquad.blogspot.com), who wrote about the malpractice case. On Dec. 22, the court granted a motion by “datruthsquad," represented anonymously by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to quash the town’s subpoena.

Links and Court Documents:

http://www.eff.org/cases/manalapan-v-moskovitz

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-12/119622917254690.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2007/11/telling_datruth.html

Motion to quash: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/manalapan/motiontoquashmpa-signed.pdf