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Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case
netbuzz writes "Lawyers for the Swiss bank that got the plug pulled on Wikileaks.org have dragged a Stanford grad student/human rights activist into the case because he moderated a discussion group about Wikileaks on Facebook. He has no relation to Wikileaks or the case, other than that he helped authenticate documents — completely unrelated to the bank matter — that were posted on Wikileaks. The guy and his lawyer have done a nice job of making lemonade out of this lemon, though."
Seems these days that, especially in these high profile cases, the lawyers are suing everybody even connected with the alleged transgressor, whether or not (as is certainly the case here) they have liability of any sort.
Actually, this goes a bit beyond a 'shotgun' lawsuit--this is more a handgrenade lawsuit, or a roadside bomb lawsuit.
Is there perhaps some practical means to force someone filing suit to show that the person they're filing suit against is even vaguely the correct one?
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Enjoining the specific document would of course require the cooperation of WikiLeaks, which for some inexplicable reason, it doesn't want to do :^)
This is really rich though. At this rate, the Swiss authorities are likely to bring the hammer down on Julius Baer, just to get their banking system out of the spotlight. Normally it'd blow over, but these clowns just keep handing major international media new stories on this every damn day.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Well, hell, if he's -already- having to hire the lawyer, he may as well -do- something with 'im, ne? No sense wasting money; it'll take the same number of billable hours to accomplish either thing.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
I think so. It seems that the legal system is designed with an assumption that being dragged away from your normal life to sit in a courtroom to answer probing questions is of minimal inconvenience.
That is a positive. Interesting how it works but it's the old ban a book and everyone wants to read it, so it gets read which is the opposite the objective of the censors. Whenever you try to silence something you bring attention to it. This bank is bringing attention to The New Transparency and the end of secrets.
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