Bloggers are becoming the favorite target of lawsuits.

A local business owner in Salisbury has filed both a criminal and civil lawsuit against a news blogger.

John Robinson, the owner of Robinson’s Jewelry and Clock Store, filed the lawsuits against Joe Albero, a Delaware native. Robinson claims that Alebero has been harassing his family and has published defamatory statements about them for more than two years already in his blog. The civil lawsuit also charges Albero along with two other contributors to Albero’s blog.

It will be interesting to see where these lawsuits will lead. Most defamation cases, according to the Media Bloggers Association, never reach the trial stage because the case is either dropped or settled out of court.