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07-12-2013, 10:32am
Jury reaches verdict in Sarah Jones defamation case
Published 2:27 PM EDT Jul 11, 2013
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COVINGTON, Ky. - Jurors have reached a verdict in the defamation trial of a gossip website that published comments about a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader.
The jury found in favor of Sarah Jones, who sued thedirty.com website over posts published in 2009 and awarded her $338,000.
The jury had been deliberating since Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Covington.
Jones is seeking damages from the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based website and its operator. The anonymous posts alleged she had sex with every Bengals player and probably had two sexually transmitted diseases. She says both were false and accuses the website operator of malice. He has denied malice.
Attorneys on both sides have said the jury's decision could have wide-ranging impacts on the Internet.
The posts weren't related to the former high school teacher's 2012 guilty plea to having sex with an underage former student.
The first trial ended with a hung jury.
Published 2:27 PM EDT Jul 11, 2013
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COVINGTON, Ky. - Jurors have reached a verdict in the defamation trial of a gossip website that published comments about a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader.
The jury found in favor of Sarah Jones, who sued thedirty.com website over posts published in 2009 and awarded her $338,000.
The jury had been deliberating since Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Covington.
Jones is seeking damages from the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based website and its operator. The anonymous posts alleged she had sex with every Bengals player and probably had two sexually transmitted diseases. She says both were false and accuses the website operator of malice. He has denied malice.
Attorneys on both sides have said the jury's decision could have wide-ranging impacts on the Internet.
The posts weren't related to the former high school teacher's 2012 guilty plea to having sex with an underage former student.
The first trial ended with a hung jury.