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Location: NJ | http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-10-internet-defamation-...
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Location: South of most, North of few | OK, I'm not going to say anything about anybody anymore..%#$*&&@#_+ :mad: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Beautiful! Just do me a favor and make sure all my special orders are delivered before you close up shop and retire to your seaside villa in the south of the france. Remember us little guys.
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Location: NJ | Can the banner-ads for online lawyers be far behind?? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Beautiful! Just do me a favor and make sure all my special orders are delivered before you close up shop and retire to your seaside villa in the south of the france. Remember us little guys.
Dave sure you can visit I will be there playing an Adamas with Jerome the the rest of the French OFCers knocking at my door.
don't forget to bring the wine and cheese..... |
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Location: closely held secret | ...Dave'll bring the whine, Cliff'll bring the cheese. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | ... and it will be smoke free! Leave the Gauloises at home. Wait a minute.... you can't get them anymore, anyway. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Let's get this straight, the woman (aka the defendant) is having a fight with her ex-husband. The ex-husband puts the kids in boarding school. The plaintiff advises the woman on how to get the kids out of the boarding school, which is in Costa Rica. Something doesn't go right, we don't know what happens to the kids. The defendant posts some defamatory messages on a website for parents of troubled teens in boarding school. We don't know what the comments are. The defendant's house and worldly belongings are wiped out by a hurricane. On top of that the divorce comes and she does not have a pot to piss in. The plaintiff sues the defendant, who does not defend herself because she has no money and is essentially homeless due to the huricane. The plaintiff gets a default finding of guilty. There is a trial as to the amount of damages and the plaintiff wins $11 million.
If the defendant has even a shread of innocence it's like les miserables or some opera. Maybe we can write a musical about it, but we have her dying in an accident with a dump truck carrying a load of recycled computers.
Anyone have any suggestions for alternative endings? How about she goes to jail for not paying the judgement, and she gets a computer that gets only one internet website: The OFC! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Anyone have any suggestions for alternative endings?"
FOX is buying the rights and will bring in "The Nanny", "Judge Judy" and "Mr. T" to make it all better.
Fox at 10pm because by 11 it's News! |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Kind of a sick, twisted story if you ask me. Obviously this woman was concerned with nothing but her own vindictiveness and spite, regardless of how much the woman she sued had already been virtually destroyed by other circumstances...not exactly the most ethical, compassionate thing I've ever heard.
Not just getting kicked when you're down - kicked when you're down, out, wasted, dying, and have absolutely no hope.
I'll have to remember not to piss off a woman on the internet! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I agree, Andrew. Anyone here wondering how the kids ended up with behavioral problems? I think either the husband shipped the wrong one(s) off to Costa Rica or he sent the kids there to keep them away from her! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well Al, I guess this wound up going in the wrong direction. |
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| ..professional ethics are often a contradiction in terms.. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | If the case ruled for $11M it must have been because he had more money than sense. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I thought I heard that Broward County Florida juries are among the most liberal in the country. Some people love to give away other people's money. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Blame it on "Hanging Chads". :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Broward county has very bad water and they all drink it..... |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cwk2:
Well Al, I guess this wound up going in the wrong direction. not at all. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I'm thankful I've only left one negative feedback on the bay for a nonpaying bidder.
We've all seen some that were downright libelous! |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | It seems like a question of whether some people just go to far. Mark, you might have more input than me, but it seems like sometimes people just push litigation to an extreme level just because they can. I'd be curious to see what the actual "slander" was in this case, and see exactly how much the plaintiff suffered in the way of damages, but $11 million seems like a ridiculously large amount of money for a virtually destitute woman making negative comments about a business.
Heck, if that's the new standard, politicians are basically screwed... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Here's another one, a little older but similar deal. There are more and more in the system each month. They are starting to really go after blogs.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1821934,00.asp |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the simple fact of life in America is that anybody can bring suit against anybody else,
for even the most wrong reasons... and the most right...
I'd like to blame the Lawyers, but WE employ them and Corporations worship them... |
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Location: North Idaho | wonder if the litigant's lawyer was pro bono?
After working on a LSP issue on a student workstation yesterday, I tried hitting the OFC for testing the web socket. The Websense Enterprise filtering proxy promptly blocked the site as an "entertainment" categorization. I was a bit surprised as I expected something more along the lines of "chat", "message board", "music", or "humor". I suppose that's better the world views posts in the OFC as for entertainment purposes only. All characters are to be considered fictional and any statement of factual/offensive content is strictly coincidental |
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