Commissioner Bob Cranmer v. Voice PAC [1]

Voice PAC, a Pennsylvania "good government" political action committee, carried a satirical piece on its website in which it used a photograph of Bob Cranmar, Commissioner of Allegheny County, that it placed alongside the text.

Commissioner Cranmer and the Allegheny County Law Department wrote to Voice PAC's Internet Service Provider, IDT, and complained that the website gave the false impression that the Commissioner endorsed the text displayed next to his photograph. IDT conveyed the complaint to Voice PAC in a letter [2] dated Feb. 3, 1999. Voice PAC responded [3] to IDT that the article in which the Commissioner's image was featured was political satire and thus protected speech under the First Amendment.

It appears that the article in question was removed from the Voice PAC website.