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Complaint Outs AutoAdmit User. Withholding Other Names for Leverage?

By Dan Slater

For all you AutoAdmit junkies, we promised an amended complaint that names some of the 39 anonymous AutoAdmit users whom two Yale law students are suing for defamation. (For the AutoAdmit backstory, click here, here and here.)

Today, the plaintiffs lawyers — Stanford’s Mark Lemley, Keker & Van Nest’s Ashok Ramani and the local Connecticut counsel, David Rosen — filed a second amended complaint that names one of the defendants.

In the amended complaint, Lemley & Co. say they have learned the identities of “several additional defendants” in the case. “Plaintiffs are seeking to resolve their claims against these defendants,” says the complaint. “Therefore, at this time, Plaintiffs continue to identify these defendants by their AutoAdmit pseudonyms.”

We’ve attempted to contact the named defendant and will let you know if we hear back.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).