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Doctor wins $675,000 libel verdict based on anonymous Internet message
The Associated Press
12/9/00 10:17 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A former doctor at Emory University School of Medicine
has won what his lawyers say is the first libel verdict based on an
anonymous Internet message.
A U.S. District judge on Thursday awarded $675,000 to Dr. Sam D. Graham Jr.,
who resigned as chairman of the school's urology department in July 1998.
In February 1999, Graham came across a posting on a Yahoo! message board
suggested he had taken kickbacks from a urology company after giving his
department's pathology business to the company and had been forced to
resign.
The message was from "fbiinformant," later determined to be Dr. Jonathan R.
Oppenheimer, who had been a staff pathologist at the company and now
operates his own labs. Calls for comment Saturday to Oppenheimer's company
Prost-Data, Inc., were not answered.
Graham said he had moved to Richmond to go into private practice.
"Everything I've done in my life was honorable," he said. "When I was
accused of this, it was terrible."
The judge called the Internet messages "about as despicable as any course of
conduct that one could engage in."
Graham's attorneys, D. Alan Rudlin and J. Burke McCormick, said they believe
the judgment is the first libel verdict based on an anonymous Internet
message.
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