It looks like “Twibel” is the latest legal buzzword. It’s the new jargon for litigation claiming defamation via Twitter, explain attorneys Whitney Gibson, Colleen Devanney and Jordan Cohen in The Internet Defamation Remove Lawyers blog from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease.
Take, for example, celebrity Courtney Love. She was recently sued by her former attorney Rhonda Holmes, who sought $8 million in damages, reported Martha Neil, in the American Bar Association’s Law News Now blog. Holmes asked the jury to hold Love accountable for her social media messages—particularly a tweet suggesting the attorney had been “bought off” from pursuing a fraud case involving the estate of Love’s late husband, Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain.
