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From: john@qip.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Len Rose and problems in Illinois
Message-ID: <5333@qip.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 90 06:38:11 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.124525.15730@eff.org> <18667@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Nov2.155040.479@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990Nov2.155040.479@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
[referring to he who cannot be mentioned on the net except by danger of
 lawsuit - I got threatened too!]

]I have not canceled my article, nor will I.
]
]I am getting sick of your repeated threats to sue me. You have
]threatened me with a lawsuit three times in the past 72 hours. 

I should point out, once again, that if one says "DO/DON'T DO x or
I will sue you," that one can be prosecuted for extortion. Recently,
one of our governor's aids was prosecuted for extortion for threatening 
to fire a state employer. A state senator has been accused of extortion
for threatening (in his private capacity) to sue a late payer. The state
attorney general is currently investigating.

In other words, the legal system can be used to harrass damn near anyone for
damn near anything. Threat of doing so can be prosecuted as extortion. If
two people are involved in the threatening, it can be prosecuted as a
criminal conspiracy (RICO, conspiracy in interstate commerce, etc, ad 
nauseum).

So folks, let's quit slinging lawyers around and advising each other of
our legal liability - it gets really boring!

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