DENVER—A federal judge has ruled that a Berthoud-based Internet service provider will not have to reveal customer names after a fashion retailer suing for the information decided to drop the case.
U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello dismissed a subpoena after an attorney for Façonnable decided the drop the case after the company received assurances that the commenter wasn’t a representative of a competing company.
According to the Denver Post ( ), Skybeam Inc. was fighting a federal magistrate judge’s order to produce the names, arguing that doing so would violate the free-speech rights of anonymous Internet commenters.
Retailer Façonnable was seeking the names in a defamation suit to figure out who posted what the retailer said were untrue statements about it on Wikipedia.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
