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To: Zoltan! who wrote (60668)	10/26/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh you may not have heard this discussion the other night. One of the companies around here (a billion $$ database firm, not Oracle) opened an account at e-trade on my behalf... my name, my SS#, with an address I had 10 years ago. I think I had a consulting gig once for about a week at a company that this database firm acquired. These optionslink accounts are opened by companies only - not individuals - for the purposes of exercising options. There was nothing in the acct, but I was in the process of opening an acct at e-trade and luckily found out about it before I put any money in there. It has to be some kind of fraud or identity theft... there is no reason to open an acct for a 10-yr old terminated employee... I don't know, the whole thing is bothersome because there were no checks whatsoever it seems

To: Zoltan! who wrote (60668)	10/26/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

One of the great things about America is you can sue anyone for anything anywhere. If you have the filing fee, you're in business, and you don't need a lawyer. If you don't have the fee you can file free in forma pauperis, but there are often problems there. Y can sue Z on an internet case anywhere the internet goes, but the plaintiff (Say NH) must usually prove that the court is the place of business of the defendant (say CA), and serving the defendant with the complaint usually has to be in person (i.e. the court must have jurisdiction over the person of the defendant. Ordinarily, without extreme expense, no service no suit. If good service is made, the defendant can transfer the case to federal court is the amount in controversy is enough (I think still $50,000). Alternatively, the NH plaintiff could sue the CA defendant directly in federal court. As far as libel goes, if the libeller attacks the livelihood of the the plaintiff, this is a per se libel, and damages need not be proved. Prove the libel, and in most states you collect what you request or what the jury considers is just. Plenty of libel cases end with the award of $1 or $.01 with costs (but not attorney's fees. Most are settled out of court at the insistence of insurers who provide legal representation for the insured.