CoinTalk liability - and ours ?

In Spanish, we always put a question mark both in front (be it upside down) and back just to make sure you CYA......

 

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I intended it to be an exclamatory remark rather than a question.

Chris

 

The original line read rhetorically, if not shouted with help of the exclamation point (!) but I got what you were saying, just having some fun with this was all.

 

Who said anything about successfully? They have been sued though. In the original filing of the ACG law suit the newsgroup RCC was named as a defendant. It was dropped in the amended complaint.

 

And unlike RCC there are real ownership people here who could be named in such a suit. And while a lot of people might like to say that having the truth is a defense, like Doug says you still have to pay the lawyers. Several of the defendants in that suit would tell you that they had the truth on their side, and the case never even went to trial but by the time they were dropped from the case they had legal bills in the thousands or tens of thousands. They hd to pay out that money simply because someone filed a suit aganst them and then later dropped it.

 

I don't think in my case it even matters. My attorney said I am "Judgement Proof".

 

But when someone sues me, they open themselves up for a countersuit. Now that can make it interesting.

 

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".......Henry VI

 

Very little of anything I have ever read here would reach the level of libel even enough to plausably bring a case to court. If someone went out of their way to spread bad information about a dealer or TPGer, knowing what they were saying was false, then it could be possible.

Thing to remember, if you are going to bad mouth a specific company or person, is to only relate known facts, known personally by you, and not what you have heard from others. Anything other than that could potentially be grounds for a suit. Most everything here I have read, though, are about markets or generalities, or their own personal experiences with a firm. I have probably come as close here as any, discussing TPG'ers, but I used as my basis a newspaper article quoting a TPG grader, so I thought I had that much protection.

Chris

 

I think that's sound advice. My attorney (a Godson) has taken pretty good care of me so far, but I wouldn't want to create any more work for him unless he could get a big payday. In my state I believe you can countersue when sued and entities such as the Casinos may do just that. Then losers get both attorney's bills with costs and any other damages that might be awarded. It's a slippery slope for sure.

IN MY OWN UNINFORMED OPINION THAT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN IN ANY FORM WHATSOEVER AS A BASIS OF TRUTH OR FACT AS THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN DEEMED MENTALLY INCOMPETENT AND KNOWN TO SPOUT WORDS QUITE MEANINGLESSLY. WHO ALSO POSSESSES NO TANGIBLE ASSETS AND CONSIDERED "JUDGEMENT PROOF".

Who may also be accessing this computer without proper authorization and without knowledge nor permission of his guardians. Who is also under medication at this time.

The above opinions are solely those of the author for fictional entertainment purposes only and not those of
CoinTalk, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon or any other ISP nor any involved or uninvolved third parties.

 

Except in very unusual cases (more on that in a second), speaking verifiable facts is a defense against libel and slander. If you can verify the facts you wrote or spoke, courts will likely entertain a pre-trial motion (saving quite a bit in legal bills). You could then file a countersuit to recover your money / stop someone from trying to SLAPP you around.

There was a case that came up in Massachusetts illustrating when the truth alone may not shield you from charges:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/02/the-most-dangerous-libel-decision-in-decades/

 

anyone can be sued for anything. However I doubt it ever made the courts. Maybe, if the owner of the board got into posting something illegal.

For $200 you can have an attorney write a letter that will scare the pants out of you and certainly look and feel like a suit.


There is no problem with message boards until a blatant illegal activities are supported by the owner of that board. The owners of most large MB's typically aren't around anymore or post under aliases.


I moderate on a huge MB that is the industry leader/portal for info and trends.

I doubt that suit ever happened. Nasty grams from attorneys, yeah that happens.

 

I am suing you for all the coins that I paid too much for. It is your fault because you keep telling not to use eBay and called me unknowledgable for doing so ! ..

So if you cease and desist, I will drop my suit





















jokes doug.... jokes!



OH CRAP- i didn't realize/ read the other pages... sorry for the redundancy

 

That's because if anyone does post something potentially libelous it get pulled.

But it is possible to run up a pretty good legal bill before it even gets to the point of filing the pretrial motions.