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> How is asking someone questions a legal threat? It isn't. Being paranoid about lawsuits against some personal blog shows a lack of legal sophistication and

> How is asking someone questions a legal threat? It isn't. Being paranoid about lawsuits against some personal blog shows a lack of legal sophistication and this type of sensationalism promotes an irrational fear of being somehow financially vulnerable to almost any legal predation. That's simply not how the US system works. There have to be actual damages for a court case to go forward to the worst-case expensive end (depending on what most people consider "crippling"). Courts aren't pernicious and are very sensitive to anyone attempting to waste court time on exploitation (except in Texas courts supporting patent trolling, obv). Any judge would have this resolved by giving the parties a 15 minute sidebar to come to an actionable resolution or sanction both sides in some motivating manner. The US legal system has a vested interest in not taking everything to a long drawn out fight, due to limited court time, even if it is presented differently in media (or the comments in these threads, which are laughable).

wslack 5y ago
> Being paranoid about lawsuits against some personal blog shows a lack of legal sophistication and this type of sensationalism promotes an irrational fear of being somehow financially vulnerable to almost any legal predation. And yet, many people reacted just like this writer. Perhaps, given that the reaction was widespread, it could and should have been anticipated, instead of expecting every person to have your evident legal knowledge.
- masklinn 5y ago
  And above somebody posted a link to 3 different counsel who took the message seriously (one an inside counsel who did not feel confident about their read and referred it to outside counsel).
dawnbreez 5y ago
Following those questions by citing a statute of the law, however, IS a legal threat. Implicit in citing specific parts of the law is the threat that those parts of the law apply to this situation.
- Supermancho 5y ago
  > Following those questions by citing a statute of the law, however, IS a legal threat Nope. A legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party. GL with whatever.

wslack 5y ago

> Being paranoid about lawsuits against some personal blog shows a lack of legal sophistication and this type of sensationalism promotes an irrational fear of being somehow financially vulnerable to almost any legal predation. And yet, many people reacted just like this writer. Perhaps, given that the reaction was widespread, it could and should have been anticipated, instead of expecting every person to have your evident legal knowledge.

masklinn 5y ago
And above somebody posted a link to 3 different counsel who took the message seriously (one an inside counsel who did not feel confident about their read and referred it to outside counsel).

dawnbreez 5y ago

Following those questions by citing a statute of the law, however, IS a legal threat. Implicit in citing specific parts of the law is the threat that those parts of the law apply to this situation.

Supermancho 5y ago
> Following those questions by citing a statute of the law, however, IS a legal threat Nope. A legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party. GL with whatever.