A Brooklyn appellate panel overruled a lower court’s orders to disclose the identity of an anonymous blogger whose comments during a hard-fought local election for Westchester County Legislature were called defamatory by a losing candidate.
In two separate rulings arising from the same controversy, the Appellate Division, Second Department, on Dec. 26 reversed pre-action disclosure orders to identify a blogger named Q-Tip who referred to “downright criminal actions” in a post entitled “Would You Buy a Used Car From These Men?” on a website called “Watch Croton.”
