Raising the stakes The stakes were raised on message board posters last Friday after a closely watched lawsuit was resolved in favor of a former Hvide Marine executive, who sought to unmask the identity of cybersmearers. A three-judge panel of the Third District Court of Appeals in Miami rejected arguments that the posters' identities should be protected until a court could evaluate a defamation case filed against them by ex-Hvide executive J. Erik Hvide, son of the company's late founder.
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