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| December 17, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2003 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: David Legard

A U.S. COURT has dismissed an attempt to force two newspapers based in the state of Connecticut to face defamation proceedings in the state of Virginia over articles posted on their Web site.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said that the Connecticut-based New Haven Advocate and Hartford Courant newspapers could not be sued in Virginia by Stanley Young, a prison warden in Virginia who was allegedly defamed in articles published by the two newspapers.

The decision takes an opposite view to the ruling last week by the High Court of Australia that U.S.-based publisher Dow Jones & Co. will have to face legal…

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