Penn Jennings <jennings@cyberca.com> writes:
> At 10:08 PM 1/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Please tell me again how removing someone from a mailing list prevents
> >murder? Thanks.
>
> This was really very simple. Follow closely.
The precedent I suppose was Netcom as a defendent in the action by the
Scientology cult, which held the position not that Netcom was
responsible for the copyright infringements going on at their site, but
that they did nothing about it when informed of the alleged infraction.
Their liability began, according to the plaintiffs, at the point they
were informed of the violation.
Court found for the plaintiffs, I believe, settled before appeal heard,
but I may be wrong about that...
Dueling legal beagles is funny. I'm reminded of Rivera Live, and all
the fine-grain minutia ground out by the avid and frenetic attorneys
on-camera, and how they all resembled the kids at Disneyland wildly
flailing away with balsa-wood paddles to guide the pirate longboat which
is pulled along by underwater cables. The Brentwood Butcher was free
the instant the dull and bigoted jury was seated. Same with any jury
trial; any cracked judgment is possible in any event.
For instance, what would you believe would be the liability of
McDonald's if a little old lady placed one of their hot coffee to-go
cups between her legs and attempted to drive away like that? I would
say so, too, but the jury in the case awarded granny over a mil.
Ain't no guarantees is the moral, I guess...
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