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Re: Who Accessed His WAP? said by howrman:I'm not aware of any legal basis for imposing liability on the owner of an unsecured WAP for things that are posted through that connection. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the Decency Act protects them. That's why your ISP isn't responsible for things that you post using its connection. In reality, I don't think it's going to be very hard to prove that the defendant posted the comment. Given the fact that he harbored animosity towards me, it would be one hell of a coincidence if some stranger just happened to come along at 10 p.m. on a Friday night to access his WAP on the 11th floor of an office building to post something about me. I would say something. Then again you now have a track record of sueing.
If it is just a personal comment right or wrong who cares? Get over it grow some thicker skin. If someone say dumps all your private client files on the web that is different. |
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howrman
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Philadelphia, PA | Sorry if I wasn't clear before as to the nature of the conduct that gave rise to the suit. The defendant posted a comment under my name that was critical of judges before whom I practice. Thus, he wanted those judges to believe that I was publically expressing unprofessional comments about them.
If it was merely a matter of a person expressing opinions about me, I couldn't and wouldn't sue. Opinions are protected free speech. As such, they are not actionable. The problem here is that the defendant fraudulently represented that he was me and he falsely attributed damaging statements to me.
What would you do under these circumstances to seek redress? |
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docricePremium
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Fremont, CA | I personally wouldn't know where to start since I'm legally ignorant about how to go about such things. I'd check with the EFF though as they might have a much better idea what to do. |
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 PeteC2Got Mouse?Premium,MVM
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| I do not believe that you will be able to definitively prove the author of the offending emails either way, as not only is proving that his machine was not "hi-jacked", difficult, you further could not prove that someone else simply may have typed that from that site...
However, as there is a proven history of conflict here, and it is known that at the very least, the fraudulent emails originated from his ISP address, I would rather suspect that it is more incumbent on the defendant to prove that they did not originate from him, yes?
After all, this is a civil suit, not a criminal trial.
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lmacmil
join:2001-01-26
South Bend, IN | reply to howrman
said by howrman:What would you do under these circumstances to seek redress? A couple of busted kneecaps?  |
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said by howrman:Sorry if I wasn't clear before as to the nature of the conduct that gave rise to the suit. The defendant posted a comment under my name that was critical of judges before whom I practice. Thus, he wanted those judges to believe that I was publically expressing unprofessional comments about them. If it was merely a matter of a person expressing opinions about me, I couldn't and wouldn't sue. Opinions are protected free speech. As such, they are not actionable. The problem here is that the defendant fraudulently represented that he was me and he falsely attributed damaging statements to me. What would you do under these circumstances to seek redress? If the judges know you and the other person then you should be fine. If a judge cannot tell you are telling the truth that you did not post it well something is wrong.
Basically saying if you have strong character and such the judges will ignore the posted garbage.
I mean clients and others are not always happy people with outcomes so rude comments or other type of comments are probably not uncommon. |
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