Judge-Turned-Journalist Files Wikipedia Defamation Complaint in Her Old Court
Judge-turned-television journalist Catherine Crier is asking a court to require disclosure of the name of an anonymous Wikipedia writer in a defamation suit filed in her old court.
The complaint filed in Dallas County Court claims the anonymous writer cut and pasted a Dallas Morning News story about a disbarred lawyer arrested for shoplifting into Crier’s Wikipedia page, substituting Crier’s name for that of the ex-lawyer, Catherine Shelton. The Tex Parte Blog and the Dallas Observer both carried the news.
“On the Wikipedia website, John Doe stated that Ms. Crier was a murder suspect, committed shoplifting, was jailed and had been disbarred. These facts are untrue,” says the complaint (PDF posted by Courthouse News Service.”
Crier wants AT&T Internet Service, based in Richardson, Texas, to identify the person using the Internet protocol address used to post the content.
Crier’s lawyer, Joe Kendall, told Tex Parte that his client is currently writing a book.
