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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 40825, member: 824&quot;]I was reading in Coin World that defendants PCGS, ANA and ICTA have motioned for a dismissal of the lawsuit ASA Accugrade filed against them on December 17, 2004.&nbsp; Reading over the details, I had to laugh that on-line forums (like this one) were some of the basis for ASA&#039;s lawsuit contending PCGS furthered a conspiracy against ASA Accugrade through two activities:</p><p><br /></p><p>1.)&nbsp; Hosting an on-line message boad where non Collector&#039;s Universe affiliated members made defamatory statements concerning ASA Accugrade.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.)&nbsp; Concocting &quot;bogus&quot; PNG/ICTA coin grading surveys in 2002 and 2004.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the defendent CU/PCGS, these allegations simply do not state a claim against CU/PCGS under the antitrust laws, or anything else for that matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here&#039;s the good news for Peter and owners of forums like this:</b>&nbsp; The owners of message boards are &quot;immune from liability for defamatory statements posted by others on its message board as a result of the Communications Decency Act of 1996,...which provides that &#039;no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.&#039; &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As I read about this case, it is my opinion that ASA Accugrade is really reaching and their lawyers are probably going for as much billable hours as they can accumulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just another headache in the &quot;How you been hurt or injured?&quot; society we live in.&nbsp; This is all the reason why &quot;loser pays&quot; will help stop many of these ridiculous lawsuits from even taking place.&nbsp; I&#039;m telling you exactly what is happening right now with ASA Accugrade&#039;s lawyers...they are either looking to see how long they can &quot;milk&quot; their hours OR they are proposing a settlement with the defendents so they can get out with 30 to 50% of whatever settlement.</p><p><br /></p><p>A bunch of nonsense and waste of time/money if you ask me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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