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> “We strongly dispute these claims and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them,” Castaneda said in an email. I've seen this _exact_ phrasing so many
by shock 6y ago
> “We strongly dispute these claims and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them,” Castaneda said in an email.
I've seen this _exact_ phrasing so many times in responses to lawsuits that I'm now starting to wonder if future lawyers receive this template as a graduation fair well package.
- judge2020 6y agoSaying anything else would hurt their case.
- wegs 6y agoLawyers generally copy each other. There is standard text which has gone through hundreds or thousands of litigations and hasn't done harm, and that's almost always used going forward. A lot of oddball conventions, such as THE USE OF ALL-CAPS in specific places, which have no reason to be legally meaningful, but are always done. Some of them do turn out to be important. Standard clauses build up over time. I think plaintiffs are right in this case. Google is openly breaking a number of laws, including CFAA. This constitutes unauthorized access. CFAA is a broken law with an overly-broad definition of unauthorized access, which the tech industry abuses all the time. It will be nice to see them get abused back. Perhaps they'll have incentive to fix it.