Twitter Libel Suit Dismissed
Horizon Group Management, of Chicago, had filed a libel lawsuit against a former tenant who tweeted “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”
According to law.com: “Other high-profile Twitter defamation cases are pending. For example, a clothing designer sued rock star Courtney Love in Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court in March alleging defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress because of a serious of unflattering tweets that Love wrote about her. A judge declined to throw out the suit in October.”
See also: http://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-court-rules-tweet-non-libelous-babble-2010-1