Tony La Russa, the much-famed baseball manger, has dropped his high-profile lawsuit against Twitter. Tony was suing Twitter over a short-tempered impersonator using his name on the micro-blogging site.

“In a June 26 court filing (pdf), La Russa’s lawyer, Gregory McCoy, wrote that his client was dismissing the case, adding that “No payment was made by Twitter to La Russa in exchange for this dismissal.” According to a person familiar with the case, there was no settlement of any kind.”

“In what appeared to be the first legal challenge to the popular San Francisco startup, La Russa sued Twitter on May 6, alleging that an unknown person had been tastelessly using his name and image, tweeting from an account named “TonyLaRussa.” Besides claiming that La Russa’s identity had been hijacked, the suit asserted that Twitter was damaging La Russa’s trademark rights to his nationally famous name.”

Legal eagles were skeptical of the case stating that Twitter could not be held liable since Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives websites immunity from what their users post online.

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