Seeking Alpha Wins Court Victory Over Censorship

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.   NanoViricides hammered with fraud allegations…