when posted in May 2004, describes intimate details of Cutler's relationship with Steinbuch and her other lovers. The weblog, a graphic online diary which achieved particular notoriety in Washington, D.C.

Unbeknownst to him, Cutler was chronicling physical encounters with him and five other men in her internet weblog entitled The Washingtonienne. While serving as counsel to then Senator Mike DeWine on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Steinbuch engaged in a sexual relationship with fellow staff member Jessica Cutler. Prior to assuming that position in the summer of 2005, 4 he worked in Washington, D.C. Robert Steinbuch is currently a law professor at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. Steinbuch appealed, but his appeal of the dismissal of Cutler was stayed after she filed a bankruptcy petition in New York. The district court 2 dismissed Steinbuch's action against Cutler, Hyperion Books, and Disney Publishing Worldwide for lack of personal jurisdiction and against Home Box Office and Time Warner for failure to state a claim. Robert Steinbuch brought this action against Jessica Cutler and several corporate entities for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress arising from the publication by Hyperion Books of Cutler's sexually explicit novel and the potential development of a future television series based on it. January 14, 2008, Submitted March 6, 2008, Filed

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

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