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INTERNET LAW - Arizona Court Holds that Hostile Blogs are not Sufficient to Grant a Change of Venue Request

Staff Attorneys, IBLS Editorial Board

A district court in Arizona ruled that biased Web blogs that expressed hostility towards the plaintiffs’ case did not provide sufficient grounds for change of venue to minimize the chances of jury bias. In particular, the court did not find such blogs to be sufficiently representative of the large pool of people from which the jury would be drawn, or that the blogs adversely influenced the pool as a whole.

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