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- From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Soldier of Fortune negligence upheld (was: False allegations ...)
- Message-ID: <bdQp02gt2ftt01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:50:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.190851.9672@panix.com>
- Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
- Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation
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- In article <1992Dec20.190851.9672@panix.com>, eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler)
- writes:
- > As I understand it, SoF faced more than one such suit. According to
- > an article I read a month or two ago (in NY Law Journal? Natl Law
- > Journal?), they recently lost their appeal in a case where they *were*
- > found liable.
- >
- > ["Cite? Cite? I don' have to show you no steenkin' cite!" There was
- > a time when Mead Data would have allowed me find the answer for free;
- > nowadays, it's folks like Terry, Ted, William D., and Tim who will
- > have to run the dispositive Lexis search.]
-
- Heh, heh. Braun v. Soldier of Fortune, 968 F.2d 1110, 20 Media L. Rep. 1777
- (11th Cir., 8/13/92), affirming a jury verdict of $4,375,000, where the jury
- found that Soldier of Fortune acted with negligence and and malice in
- publishing a personal service advertisement through which plaintiffs'
- father's business partner hired an assassin to kill him, in the face of,
- inter alia, Soldier of Fortune's 1st Amendment defense.
-
- Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
- The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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