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HardOCP Declares Win vs. Infinium Labs

Posted by Zonk on from the power-to-the-people! dept.

Bill Bagel writes "Many of us have watched Infinium Labs' attempt to quash HardOCP's First Amendment right for the last year. HardOCP wrote this story on the Infinium Labs CEO, Tim Roberts, that was based on his own resume and some Google research. IL sued HardOCP, a home-based webpage business for $20M in Florida, and HardOCP fought back in a Federal Court in Texas for a declaratory judgment. HardOCP basically won when Infinium Labs finally gave up the fight citing great expenses involved in fighting the declaratory suit. The judge's order can be found here." The Cliff's Notes version can be found on WhereisPhantom.com.

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  1. Correction for Editors by JamesD_UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    WhereisPhatom.com should read WhereisPhantom.com, luckily it's correct in the link.

  2. Re:What about lawyer's fees? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about reading the decision. It specifically mentions what they have to do to recoup legal fees.

  3. Re:RTFA, by Torgo's+Pizza · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, this is the *original* suit. The countersuit in Florida was filed after the US District Court suit. Kyle was pre-emptive with his lawsuit so that Infinium Labs would stop threatning him with one.

  4. There was no amendment by phr2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    and no act of Congress turning corporations into persons. There was not even a supreme court decision.

    Rather, the notion of corporate personhood got written into some other supreme court decision in the 1870's, by a former railroad executive who was working as a clerk at the Supreme Court. It wasn't part of the actual Court opinion but rather was part of the introduction or something like that, but regardless, later court decisions quoted it and it became binding law.

    The Supreme Court in that era was very corrupt, even worse than now. The 14th amendment (resulting from the Civil War) spelled out a bunch of rights guaranteed to all "persons", i.e. all people (previously, only white people had rights). Corporations realized that they wanted to get in on the action and have those rights themselves, so after sufficient palm greasing, the decisions came down.

    For more info, see the movie "The Corporation", which is really excellent.

    See also: wikipedia on corporate personhood.

  5. Re:Rights? by Tassach · · Score: 3, Informative

    Corrected Google Link, before someone jumps on me for it.

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    Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?