I guess the facts of the situation ( list shutdown ) doesn't mean anything
.....I did my research, posted the facts and as a result, have an argument.
Please read the post, gather your own facts, then decide.....meanwhile I think
I'll set this one out......I'm outta here!!!!
Marc James Small wrote:
> At 07:24 AM 6/17/2000 -0600, Arthur Blackwell wrote:
> >[xj] Lawsuit for libel? LONG!!!!
>
> Not in the US, brother, though they may be elsewhere. In the US, truth is
> an absolute defence to any defamation action, and a summary dismissal AND,
> almost certainly, an award of sanctions (attorney's fees) would result.
> Virtually no defamation suits are filed in the US any more and it has
> effectively been a moribund area of the law for the past third of a century.
>
> Now, the DEEPER question, though, is where a lawsuit based on an Internet
> allegation could be filed. With written communications, jurisdiction runs
> to any locality where the publication is willingly circulated -- that is, a
> newspaper published in the US but which freely sells copies in Canada would
> allow a suit to be filed either in the US or in Canada, though a casual
> publication (a tourist simply carrying a copy of the offending journal
> north of the border) would not.
>
> But no court has yet firmly ruled WHERE litigation resulting from the 'Net
> can be filed, so here is YOUR chance to get your name on a brand-new,
> history-making legal principle, and your progeny can stand tall in future
> years knowing the family name is being taught to First-Year Law Students
> around the globe ...
>
> But, seriously, there is no real danger of a defamation action from a
> gratuitous discussion held on an Internet site.
>
> Marc James Small
> Attorney-at-Law
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
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Art Blackwell
Denver, CO
" Even in the future nothing works " Dark Helmet " Spaceballs "
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