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Seeking Alpha Wins Court Victory Over Censorship

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Mark Melin
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A confidential out of court settlement with hedge fund executive David Einhorn over protecting the identity of an anonymous contributor to the Seeking Alpha web site in February always left open the question of the legality of forcing a news publication to reveal its sources and tone down its content critical of the powerful.  This question may have been answered as Seeking Alpha, in a separate matter, just won a victory in New York Supreme Court over a firm seeking the identity of one of its anonymous contributors who had aggressively attacked the firm.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.