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Would this provide reason to appeal and potentially have the ruling thrown out? I have no idea what the legalities behind something like this are, but it seems
by SoftwareMaven 15y ago
Would this provide reason to appeal and potentially have the ruling thrown out? I have no idea what the legalities behind something like this are, but it seems like a pretty clear attempt to quash first amendment rights.
- Natsu 15y agoBe that as it may, appeals are quite expensive and I suspect that whatever decision they'll make on that will have more to do with finances than free speech. That said, in an appeal, you generally list any and every complaint about the lower court's errors that has any chance of success. I don't know enough about the relevant laws to say whether or not this was an abuse of the court's discretion (even though I feel that it was an abuse), though. As an aside, I really wonder how he happened to find out about a comment in a Chinese newspaper, which would presumably be in Chinese? I have to assume that the plaintiff dug that up, because learning enough hanzi to read one is pretty difficult.