'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide'

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times (free reg's yada, yada) has this article about Texas doctors running an online blacklist of patients who have sued. The searchable database is at doctorsknow.us. Nice to know that you can get blacklisted for suing the doctor that caused massive brain damage to your kid (and winning)." To add a plaintiff to the database, membership was not always required.

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Re:Difficult?

[galego]

I'm sure someone will consider me flamebait for this ... but it's Interesting that in this case, the law said that discrimination only applied to race, creed, religion, or national origin ... not profession.

I guarantee that if someone complained against the same develoer of discrimination against their being gay/lesbian (which AFAIK is not included in any of the above) the outcome would have been different.

Granted, I'd be nervous selling/renting/etc. to a lawyer ... but why should I be worred if I understand the agreement and have complied with my part of it? I understand the developer being nervous, but the developer is just as suspect of having something to hide (like the shoddy work that oh-so-many developers are known for these days).