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Re: Apology accepted (Re: [ga-roots] Re: Criminalization of alt roots)
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:12:41AM -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
[...]
> Listening to Dave Crocker's imagination is a huge mistake. ;-) Here's the
> reality. The case was not argued correctly, IMHO. The grounds for the case
> were perfectly valid. The IAHC/CORE were stealing the intellectual property
> and goodwill that IOD had created for .WEB. This was a bad thing that the
> lawsuit succeeding in stopping.
>
> In the Judge's words, "[IOD] has not met its burden of proof to establish a
> reasonable likelihood of prevailing on the merits of Image Online's claims
> at the time of trial" was the Judge's way of saying "you guys are dorks - I
> know you're right, but your case is full of holes - go away and come back
> with a stronger case."
You got the part about "dorks" right.
> So IOD dropped the case without prejudice allowing
> them to come back and sue at a later date.
Which they did, and lost again -- this time I guess they are appealing.
--
Kent Crispin "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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