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''Lorraine Martin v. Hearst Corporation'' (2d Cir. 2015) was a defamation case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit protecting online news sources from having to remove or modify a story chronicling a person's arrest if that arrest is later erased from the record by the government using a criminal erasure statute. The Second Circuit found that when a news source reports on an arrest, and the government subsequently erases the arrest using a criminal erasure statute, the news stories do not become defamatory, because the historical fact of the arrest remains true. The ruling protected Hearst Corporation's news outlets from having to modify or remove their online articles after plaintiff Lorraine Martin's arrest for drug possession was erased for legal purposes using Connecticut's criminal erasure statute (an expungement law). The case is seen by some as evidence that United States law cannot accommodate a right to be forgotten like the one established in the European Union in May 2014. ==Background== In August 2010, Lorraine Martin and her two sons were arrested in their home and charged with various drug possession offenses. Connecticut news outlets, including some owned by Hearst Corporation, posted accurate news articles online about the arrest. In January 2012, the state dropped its case against Martin and erased her arrest from official records using Connecticut's criminal records erasure statute. Martin then asked Hearst and the other defendants to remove the articles from their websites. They refused, and she sued, claiming that the articles had become false and defamatory because the erasure statute declares someone in her position to be "deemed to have never been arrested." The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut held for Hearst Corporation, and Martin appealed to the Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit.." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin v. Hearst Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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