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Las Vegas Newspaper Served with Grand Jury Subpoena for Blog Commenter Data

In June, the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a web article on a federal tax fraud case, that generated lots of reader feedback. A federal grand jury subpoenaed the paper for identifying information on those web users who responded to the newspaper story. The newspaper reported that it would fight the subpoena in court.

Las Vegas Review-Journal Served with Federal Subpoena, Associate Press, June 16, 2009