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Loss Of Client |
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Hewitt could never win a lawsuit against him. |
| Date Posted: |
02/25/2006 |
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or you may be the one getting sued. It's one thing to share gossip at work, another to post it on a public message board. If it turns out not to be true, but someone can point to the public rumor as being harmful to their financial interests, they DO have legal recourse against the original public poster. Identities may be anonymous to the readers, but they are NOT anonymous to The Vault. And if The Vault has reason to believe that the rumor is unsubstantiated, or COULD or SHOULD have known, then they could be considered liable as well. Do you really think they'd withhold your identity in that case? If a post disappears or is "censored", it probaby is not Hewitt's doing, but rather sensible self-preservation on The Vault's part. It would not be surprising to see some clamping down on anonymous ID's. |
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Firstly, most companies won't sure because it creates a lot of bad press.
Of course, if they sued, and won, they would never be able to collect any judgement.
But, even if they sued, they would never win. Here are a few reasons:
1. He said it was a rumor!
2. He said he was 'in the trenches' and is not claiming to have special knowledge or position.
3. Can't calculate or prove any damages. If the stock drops, you can't prove why, or collect on that anyhow. And, it isn't going to drop on one vault posting, so, someone somewhere would have to confirm it. And if it was confirmed, and it was true, Hewitt would lose the lawsuit. Can't quantify damages to a large coporation in almost any event.
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