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Technology Stocks : Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates -- VSEA
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (1671)8/17/2004 9:59:39 AM
From: dantecristo   of 1929
 
More Bad News for VSEA
"Getting the Big Guns

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has joined the ongoing dispute between Internet insulters Mary Day and Michelangelo Delfino and their former employer, Varian Medical Systems. Delfino and Day are the Los Altos couple who posted offensive remarks about Varian and its executives, remarks that Varian tried to silence through legal remedy. Delfino and Day cried SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation), and, five years and millions of dollars later, the contentious case sits waiting to be argued in the California Supreme Court. On the line—at least from Delfino and Day's perspective—is an important portion of California's progressive anti-SLAPP legislation, which is intended to protect private individuals from resource-wasting and silencing lawsuits brought on by powerful interests such as large corporations. Lockyer, who also happens to be one of the architects of the anti-SLAPP laws, is apparently so upset by a lower court ruling against his cherished legislation that he took the initiative two weeks ago to file a brief supporting Delfino and Day. The move can be described as politically daring for Lockyer—indeed, Delfino and Day's vulgar Internet messages have seemingly already repelled other would-be supporters. "They [Varian] have got to have shitted," Day says. "I bet you they just shit." "

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