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To: Papillon who wrote (16995)	3/10/2000 10:13:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17305

Papillon, all I can say is thank goodness for Homeowners insurance. Personal Liability coverage is a throw in on most policies and it covers you for defamation and libel, very helpful to have if you plan to say anything left of center about a company here on the Internet. My Homeowners insurance allowed me to stand firm and fight what I knew was clearly a SLAPP suit. The idea was not that, say, Business Wire thought I illegally used their trademark (heck, they affixed their trademark on the press release, not me!), it was that every added charge would take money to fight. The moment BW saw my insurance company was willing to fight until the end, that incentive disappeared and they asked to settle. Of course there was no way we were going to settle unless they dropped each and every charge, and no way we would agree to keep quiet about anything related to the lawsuit (normally parties agree to keep settlement talks confidential). So, BW dropped the charges and I wrote a detailed account of the events surrounding and leading up to it on SI: Message 12182423 In case anyone cares, here's an entire thread devoted to chat board lawsuits. There are lots of them! Subject 28509 I spend most of my time on SI on more "civic" issues. For example, this thread is all about the Yale co-ed who was brutally murdered in December of 1998, a crime that not only has not been solved but an innocent man has seen his name dragged through the mud because of blatant police ineptness at the very least. The case was profiled on 20/20 a week ago Wednesday. Subject 32074 Also, as soon as the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament selection is complete, I'll have a thread as I did last year for people to submit and chart their picks. - Jeff P.S. ALYD/IARC .70 --> $27. Amazing!