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Twitter Sued For 'Breaking' UK Super Injunction

First Posted: 05/20/11 06:19 PM ET Updated: 07/20/11 06:12 AM ET

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eu.techcrunch.com:

We've been watching the British legal system turn itself into knots for the last couple of weeks, largely due to the ability of Twitter users to break just about any legal 'super injunction' a 'celebrity' (usually footballers) has on the reporting of their private life (usually affairs). So far so normal for Twitter. What's a super injunction? It's when someone rich (these things are very expensive) takes out an injunction on the press that not only stops them reporting something but also stops them reporting that the injunction even exists. That makes it 'super', which of course it is anything but.

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We've been watching the British legal system turn itself into knots for the last couple of weeks, largely due to the ability of Twitter users to break just about any legal 'super injunction' a 'celebr...
We've been watching the British legal system turn itself into knots for the last couple of weeks, largely due to the ability of Twitter users to break just about any legal 'super injunction' a 'celebr...
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yea right
Lets go back and throw the civil war.
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06:14 PM on 05/20/2011
Next up on the LSAT. Define the similarities and differences between a UK Super Injunction and Double Secret Probation using established legal precedence.
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