Attention Ray Gordon / Gordon Roy Parker
Anon
court case which may be relevant to your interests:
http://business2press.com/2010/09/27/man-wins-defamation-case-against-google/
Seems pretty similar to your previous lawsuit. Maybe you could file a
lawsuit in French court? There are a lot of people on here who like to
criticize you, but you seem pretty intelligent. I wish you the best of
luck. Don't let the haters get you down.
Paul Robinson
> This is a throw-away account. I am coming here to inform you about a
> court case which may be relevant to your interests:
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> Seems pretty similar to your previous lawsuit. Maybe you could file a
> lawsuit in French court? There are a lot of people on here who like to
> criticize you, but you seem pretty intelligent. I wish you the best of
> luck. Don't let the haters get you down.
He's living in subsidized housing. He's tried suing Google before.
Hell, he's tried sung *lots* of people before.
As for a French case, there's no jurisdiction. None of these people
live in France, he'd still have to get a U.S. court to accept that a
foreign court has jurisdiction, and no American court is going to
declare a foreign judgment against a U.S. Citizen with no foreign
nexus, where the statement is protected by the First Amendment, to be
valid.
People pull this sort of stunt all the time, there's even a term for
it: libel tourism. Someone will sue in the U.K. claiming publication
there, and maybe get a verdict - the laws there favor the plaintiff in
a libel case - that the plaintiff will never even try to enforce
because they know no U.S. court will validate the judgment.
They will then argue the statement against them is false because a
U.K. court found the defendant had libeled them, ignoring that the
case was basically a default judgment that they never tried to
enforce, knowing the U.S. courts would reject the judgment as invalid.
At the state court level, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a
Usenet posting is inadequate to give an Alabama court jurisdiction
over a Minnesota defendant. Griffis v. Luban, 633 N.W.2d 548, 553
(Minn.App.2001).
The U.S. Supreme Court has stated a judgment is only valid if the
forum state where the case is filed has some nexus to the defendant.
International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945).
Unless Google actually is stupid enough to have corporate filing in
France the court there really doesn't have jurisdiction; I would
presume at best they have a subsidiary and separate corporate entity
the way YouTube is a separate entity even though Google owns it.