Dan Gross | A Break For Bloggers

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GOOD NEWS for bloggers and their readers who like to talk s---.

The U.S. Court of Appeals Third Circuit h-as dismissed blueberry heir Anthony DiMeo III's motion to reverse a lower court's dismissal of the libel/defamation-of- character suit DiMeo filed against blogger Tucker Max.

DiMeo sued Max in early 2006 over several threads full of reader comments at tuckermax.com mocking DiMeo with various degrees of profanity and crude humor over his firm Renamity's disastrous New Year's Eve soiree at the former Le Jardin in the Art Alliance. The booze ran out in an hour, art was stolen and upset partygoers demanded refunds.

DiMeo told us the other day that he'd been so busy planning Thursday's 2007 Young Professionals Ball on Rittenhouse Square that he hadn't learned of the court's decision until we called. Realizing he may have exhausted his legal recourse, DiMeo says, "Without a doubt, Tucker Max has exploited my good name and image, and he and his following have published scurrilous lies about me on his Web site . . . I did not file the DiMeo v. Max lawsuit out of vengeance but to stop further damage to my good name, character and solid reputation."