Jerrold "Jerry" Darm, a medical spa doctor in Tigard, Oregon, filed a $1 million lawsuit against Tiffany Craig, a blogger from Portland in charge of the blog Criminallyvulgar. Darm attempted to sue her in July 2011, claiming defamation after one of her blog posts, which was also linked to her Twitter account, talked about how Darm attempted to treat a patient for free in exchange for sexual actions. Darm was in fact found to violate the Medical Practices Act in 2001 after a complaint that he inappropriately touched and kissed a patient after his clinic had officially closed for the day. He was punished but was not required to resign or relinquish his license, as Craig wrote on her blog post. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed, but it would have been the first Twitter libel suit in the nation to go to trial.
Sources:
http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2011/10/oregons_first_twitter_libel_la.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2011/10/million-dollar_twitter_libel_s.html
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/10/tiffany_craig_v_jerrold_darm_l.php
Tiffany Craig's Blog Post:
http://www.criminallyvulgar.com/2011/06/dr-darm-and-missing-medical-license.html
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