This is what's called a SLAPP. It's intention is simply to silence the victim (oh sorry, the defendant). The person suing KNOWS he does not have the law on his side; Maccoby knows that the journo has done nothing wrong. But the lawsuit is meant to frighten the journalist and make him back off.
In this instance, he is doing the best thing possible -- making it VERY public. The best thing we can do to support him is to spread the news widely. This will have the effect of causing very bad press for Maccoby, and will bring attention to the issue of pizzagate, Alefantis and Brock. This has the potential to misfire terribly for Maccoby. This is a risky move by Maccoby. He'd be praying that the journo just lays over, because if he doesn't, Maccoby is stuffed.
If the journo genuinely has no money, that is better, because there is no real threat to him.
A good example of a SLAPP is when McDonalds spent £10 million suing two broke unrepresented defendants, a gardener and postal worker, combined income £12,000. I believe that case is still being fought. The two defendants don't care that they're being sued; they have no money to pay.
Yep this happened here. A guy D that runs the no kill dog shelter was SLAPP lawsuited by the extremely wealthy media company family woman who runs our awful high kill shelter, because D knew all their dirty laundry because he was around a lot rescuing dogs out of there. It was such a small David vs Awful Goliath and he's still a bit gun shy but he WON it was dropped because guess what they didn't want too much digging. I know it is scarry but stay strong!!
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Piscina ago
This is what's called a SLAPP. It's intention is simply to silence the victim (oh sorry, the defendant). The person suing KNOWS he does not have the law on his side; Maccoby knows that the journo has done nothing wrong. But the lawsuit is meant to frighten the journalist and make him back off.
In this instance, he is doing the best thing possible -- making it VERY public. The best thing we can do to support him is to spread the news widely. This will have the effect of causing very bad press for Maccoby, and will bring attention to the issue of pizzagate, Alefantis and Brock. This has the potential to misfire terribly for Maccoby. This is a risky move by Maccoby. He'd be praying that the journo just lays over, because if he doesn't, Maccoby is stuffed.
If the journo genuinely has no money, that is better, because there is no real threat to him.
A good example of a SLAPP is when McDonalds spent £10 million suing two broke unrepresented defendants, a gardener and postal worker, combined income £12,000. I believe that case is still being fought. The two defendants don't care that they're being sued; they have no money to pay.
http://vgso.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/McLibel,%20SLAPPs%20and%20Intimidation%20Litigation%20to%20Stifle%20and%20Silence.pdf
sunshine702 ago
Yep this happened here. A guy D that runs the no kill dog shelter was SLAPP lawsuited by the extremely wealthy media company family woman who runs our awful high kill shelter, because D knew all their dirty laundry because he was around a lot rescuing dogs out of there. It was such a small David vs Awful Goliath and he's still a bit gun shy but he WON it was dropped because guess what they didn't want too much digging. I know it is scarry but stay strong!!