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A "baseless allegation" is one with no evidence or reason. This guy has a reason and presumably evidence, so his allegations are not baseless. A baseless alleg
by cjslep 8y ago
A "baseless allegation" is one with no evidence or reason. This guy has a reason and presumably evidence, so his allegations are not baseless.
A baseless allegation would be if I were suing AT&T for losing all my crypto investments. I have none and am not an AT&T customer.
An "allegation without merit" means no rational interpretation of the law would result in a guilty conviction of the allegations. Baseless ones are almost always without merit.
- perl4ever 8y agoYou think that lawyers say an allegation is "baseless" iff it is baseless? That's an interesting epistemic outlook.
- travmatt 8y ago“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” I suspect good lawyers refrain from falsely alleging a claim is baseless when they have more sound arguments to make, and they save the histrionics for table pounding occasions.
- cjslep 8y agoNo, I'm providing definitions and using myself in an example. Please do not put words in my mouth.
- perl4ever 8y agoYou provided unnecessary and unhelpful definitions, from my perspective. I assume as axiomatic (and required by HN guidelines) that you intended to be helpful and relevant, so I asked a question to determine what you were thinking. If you do not think lawyers use the "baseless" language in a totally transparent, sincere way, then I would've expected you to be more interested in when and how they do that, which is the discussion I was looking for, if any.
- cjslep 8y agoWow, if that's how you really feel. Your eagerness to fall back to rules lawyering to justify your behavior instead of reflecting where our misunderstanding is and working to resolve it, is the kind of toxic online behavior I will gladly get dinged for. I will help you and go ahead and flag all of my posts in this thread so dang and others can take moderative actions against me.