By PHILIP A. JANQUART
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A Vallejo attorney must pay more than $87,000 after his defamation and copyright lawsuit against two websites was dismissed, a federal judge ruled.
Dionne Choyce sued San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center and its Internet service provider Layer42.net in 2012. Choyce claimed the Media Center posted defamatory comments about him on its aggregate news site, Indybay.org.
He also claimed the organization broke copyright laws by publishing one of his images without permission.
Specifically, Choyce said Indybay posted a page titled \”Attorney Dionne Choyce, who embezzled from homeless, may serve prison time,\” and another one: \”The Choyce Law Firm evicted from building.\”
Choyce claimed that Layer42.net shared responsibility with the Media Center for publishing false information.
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