What is Larry Shepherd vs. ANA and why is CoinTalk involved?

Sheesh! Lately, every topic or link I click on, has some sort of CT controversy. I just stumbled onto another drama queen scene from the past... http://www.coinnetwork.com/forum/topics/coin-talks-members-are-blind

To tie things in, did this link result in a lawsuit?

"Hitler of Cointalk", I don't see it. Maybe a little more like Crocodile Dundee of Coin Talk.

 

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Deja vu all over again: members of the Usenet newsgroup Rec.Collecting.Coins (originally the maillist coins@cobra.uni.edu) were sued by Alan Hager. On the one hand, you cannot have a society of law without lawyers. On the other hand, I would like to see what that looks like.

 

I looked at their website, but it is not clean. The topics are all jumbled together with no topic focus. I'll stay here.

 

I do a lot of CT searches through Google. This was the first time I encountered something like this. LAWSUIT, LAWSUIT, LAWSUIT!

 

That has been my assumption as well, that like it or not, Shepherd was a public figure and less protected against liable if only to protect the free-speech rights of the public at large, which might logically be extended to the board members as well. That the ANA has a congressional charter makes the "public figure" clause protecting free-speech that much more of an issue in the case. As for an affair, --you are quite correct that an employer can not terminate someone based on that. It's called freedom of association, or something like that, the employer has no business interfering in anyone's personal life. However, if actions stemming from the affair adversely affect other members of the staff, then there is probably just cause to fire one or both of the people involved. (Just my opinion of course).

 

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/colorado/codce/1:2013cv03075/144321

 

That is a thread from 2009, and completely irrelevant... also, the main spiteful poster, was kicked off a bunch of coin forums, including CCRS and CCF, as well as being banned from posting on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aidan_Work

I don't think the host forum (and most certainly not Coin Talk) was the problem there...

 

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Are any of those names coin talk names or just Ana?