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Legal way to blackmail. Cool! But, alas, she can be subpoenaed which overrides any gag clause.

• vkou 9y ago
  Generally speaking, when you sue someone, it's often in your best interests to give them an opportunity to settle, instead of going to trial. You often do this by listing all the awful shit about the other person that you're going to air at trial. We don't call that a 'Legal way to blackmail,' and neither is this.
  • eganist 9y ago
    > We don't call that a 'Legal way to blackmail,' and neither is this I mean, if we're just going by Wikipedia, my non-lawyerly brain would parse this: > It is coercion involving threats to reveal substantially true [...] information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates, or threats of [...] criminal prosecution. as being precisely what's happening here. Breadcrumbs were thrown out in public with an implication to settle in order to avoid more getting out. That sounds like "legal blackmail" to most laypeople.
    • jimrandomh 9y ago
      The key words in that sentence are "criminal prosecution". This is a civil suit.
    • vkou 9y ago
      Again, how is this different from a threat to sue? Should out-of-court civil settlements be made illegal? All of them are coercive in nature, and a lawsuit almost always results in a lot of dirty laundry being aired. Does this make every settled lawsuit 'legal blackmail'? If so, does the word even have any meaning?