RadioBanter - View Single Post - Time for the _REAL_ Radio Ham to make a stand?

January 9th 06, 02:39 PM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.policy

Walt Davidson wrote:

On 8 Jan 2006 06:32:36 GMT, (Jeffrey Herman)
wrote:

Internet message results in libel award
(AP)
Richmond, Va -- A former doctor at Emory University School of Medicine
has won what his lawyers say is the first libel verdict based on an
anonymouse Internet message.
A U.S. District Court judge last week awarded $675,000 to Dr. Sam D.
Graham Jr., who resigned as chairman of the school's urology department
in July 1998.
(snip)
The judge called the Internet messages "about as despicable as any
course of conduct that one could engage in."

Yes, Jeff, but the trouble is that most posters of such anonymous
garbage are losers without two cents to rub together, so suing them is
a waste of time.

73 de G3NYY

Their ISP might prove to be a little richer. Just a thought.

vy 73

Andy, M1EBV