hey mastodon friends! haven't been checking in here very often, but wanted to share some @FirstAmendmentClinic updates that may have not made it over here.
First, after prevailing on all of the defamation-based claims, our client in the "Nelsonville Crackheads" defamation suit out of Athens County, Ohio agreed to settle his counterclaim: https://mastodon.social/@FirstAmendmentClinic/110260132251954319
Next, in a huge win for anonymous speech rights in Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas denied a police chief's motion for discovery to social media/email providers to discover our anonymous client's identity: https://mastodon.social/@FirstAmendmentClinic/110260141137824864