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Will the Zippo sliding scale for Internet jurisdiction slide into oblivion?

Mark Sableman January 12, 2016
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In legal terms, where does jurisdiction lie for an Internet dispute? Many answers have been given over the last 20 years, and some of the weaker, less helpful answers are only slowly being supplanted by more reliable and realistic legal tests. As a recent decision illustrates, particularly in cases of Internet defamation, courts are abandoning some early simplistic precedents. READ MORE