Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Law students sue authors of online posts

Two women face identity hurdle in pursuing users behind ‘sexually explicit’ comments on AutoAdmit

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, November 12, 2007

“Dean_Harold_Koh” — not to be confused with Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh — and 38 other pseudonymous users of an Internet message board have been sued by two Yale Law School students in connection with defamatory comments on the message board for people in the legal community.

The two female students first pursued legal action in June against the 39 post authors as well as initial defendant Anthony Ciolli, a former employee of the Web forum AutoAdmit. But the plaintiffs revised their complaint Friday, deciding not to name Ciolli as a defendant.

Instead, the two...

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