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{{Infobox New York COA case
| court            = [[New York Court of Appeals]]
| Litigants        = Lunney v. Prodigy Services Co.
| ArgueDate        =
| ArgueYear        =
| DecideDate       = December 2
| DecideYear       = 1999
| FullName         = Alexander G. Lunney v. Prodigy Services Company, et al.
| Citations        = 723 N.E.2d 539; 94 N.Y.2d 242; 701 N.Y.S.2d 684
| Prior            = Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied, [[New York Supreme Court|Sup. Ct.]] [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester Cty.]], July 2, 1997; renewed motion for summary judgment denied, Sup. Ct., Jan. 14, 1998; rev'd, 250 [[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division|A.D.2d]] 230 (1999)
| Subsequent       = [[certiorari|Cert.]] denied, 529 [[United States Reports|U.S.]] 1098 (2000)
| Holding          = An internet chatroom provider could not be considered the publisher of defamatory material posted by an imposter account because of its passive role in monitoring the chatrooms.  Appellate Division affirmed.
| ChiefJudge       = [[Judith S. Kaye]]
| AssociateJudges  = [[Joseph W. Bellacosa]], [[George Bundy Smith]], [[Howard A. Levine]], [[Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick]], [[Richard C. Wesley]], [[Albert M. Rosenblatt]]
| Majority         = Rosenblatt
| JoinMajority     = Kaye, Smith, Levine, Ciparick, Wesley
| NotParticipating = Bellacosa
| LawsApplied      = 
}}
'''''Lunney v. Prodigy Services Co.''''', 94 N.Y.2d 242 (1999) is a leading [[law of the United States|U.S. law case]] on liability of [[Online service provider law|internet service providers]] for [[defamation]]. The court held that [[Prodigy (online service)|Prodigy]], an internet [[chatroom]] provider, was not considered a publisher of defamatory material posted from an imposter account due to its passive role in monitoring the chatrooms.

==External links==
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ny&vol=i99&invol=0165 Decision text at FindLaw]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060822202344/http://www.nationallawcenter.org/docs/doc_download-28.html Petition for certiorari]

[[Category:New York state case law]]
[[Category:United States Internet case law]]
[[Category:United States defamation case law]]
[[Category:1999 in United States case law]]
[[Category:1999 in New York (state)]]


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