Arthur Alan Wolk v. Walter Olson

Arthur Alan Wolk v. Walter Olson is a notable 2010 Internet libel case where the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the same rule for mass media applies to the Internet when calculating a statute of limitations.
Background
On September 30, 2002, in a lawsuit in federal court in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Taylor v. Teledyne, Judge Julie E. Carnes sanctioned Arthur Alan Wolk for "intentionally disobeying the orders and directives of the Court." As part of the settlement of the case in 2003, the court agreed to vacate the order critical of Wolk.
After the settlement, Wolk sued Teledyne and its attorneys, Lord Bissell & Brook, for libel because they transmitted "a United Stated District Court order that was valid, binding, and publicly available at the time it was transmitted." In 2007, Judge Norma Levy Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed the lawsuit as without legal merit.
Lawsuit
In 2009, Wolk sued Overlawyered editor Walter Olson, Frank, Overlawyered, and Overlawyered blogger David Nieporent, claiming that the blog libeled him.

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