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Sarkar v. Doe - PubPeer Subpoena Challenge

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Sarkar v. Doe - PubPeer Subpoena Challenge

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The ACLU filed a motion in Michigan state court challenging the constitutionality of a subpoena issued to the website PubPeer demanding that it turn over the identities of anonymous commenters. In March 2015, the trial judge ruled that PubPeer had to unmask one – but only one – of the commenters. Both PubPeer and the researcher appealed, and the ruling was upheld in December 2016.

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