In dregging the bottom of the barrel for news stories, it turns out that Jessica Cutler filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in New York, mudding up even more so the current case against her in DC where her ex-boyfriend and fellow DeWine staffer Robert Steinbuch is suing her for more than $20 million for publishing initimate details about him in her online blog.
At stake in this case is the principle of what are the boundries of privacy in an online world. Namely, what happens if two people have a relationship and one publishes details of it over the internet? At first blush, I think this is nothing more than a ploy to drive Jessica Cutler to economic ruin, rather than having any basis in legal theory. For me, it is no different if I publish a tell-all memoir or publish the same information on the internet, so long as it's true. And I didn't see anything in the complaint to allege that it wasn't true.
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