First Amendment Safe In Monmouth County

Superior Court Judge Terence P. Flynn quashed a subpoena Manalapan township officials served on Google seeking the identity of the author of the blog "daTruthSquad." The Judge called the request "an unjust infringement on the blogger's First Amendment rights." Not surprisingly, the decision was applauded in the blogosphere and on "daTruthSquad, which thanked its heroic lawyers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. dTS commented in its usual understed prose: Let daTruthSquad make this point perfectly clear to everyone. This is not a victory for just daTruthSquad. It is a victory for all bloggers in the United States and any citizen who has a comment to make that any ego-bruised politician may not like. This is a victory for the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and it should show all weak-minded politicians you cannot mess with the Founding Fathers of this great nation."
 

Township of Manalapin v, Stuart Moskowitz  et al http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/manalapan/order-122107.pdf