Surely that would make it an MC Hammer?
I want to be angry, but honestly it was right there. Well played.
Don’t hurt him.
I guess he’s looking for money or headlines? It’s certainly a unique idea that his book not being accurate interfered with his run for political office ( I think that’s what he’s suggesting)? I guess “Local asshole behaves like an asshole” is less informative.
It would surprise me if it were anything other than a forgery on a cheap guitar.
While my wife was recovering from an operation, I brought her two wrapped gift boxes and insisted she open the small one first.
it contained a ceramic “Precious Moments” statue. I should point out that Pepper Mill loathes Precious Moments items. She looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Open the other one,” i replied.
It contained a hammer.
As soon as she could, she got up, took the statue outside, and smashed it to bits. then she smashed the bits. And the secondary bits, until she’d reduced it to powder.
Nowadays, Precious Moments statues can be collector’s items, so that she might have been better off keeping the damned thing. But it wouldn’t have been as cathartic.
(Although I note that someone is selling a set of 21 “original issue” Precious Moments statues for $2000 on ebay:
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The next time she was ill I got her a Precious Moments “get well” card.
And a book of matches.
Wow, what happened to the free market economy? He wrote a book based on research he used to get a degree. Other scholars looking at his work have found errors and mistakes, and they point them out.
Apparently being a rabid Trump supporter worked against him. And pointing out his shoddy research didn’t help him. So now it’s an international conspiracy.
What I don’t get is this is a civil suit, right? So how do RICO statutes come into play? Isn’t RICO about criminal prosecuton?
He’s a victim. They’re all victims. It’s a conspiracy. Don’t you see. /pathetic
Civil suits
RICO also permits a private individual “damaged in his business or property” by a “racketeer” to file a civil suit. The plaintiff must prove the existence of an “enterprise.” The defendant(s) are not the enterprise; in other words, the defendant(s) and the enterprise are not one and the same.[7]
A civil RICO action can be filed in state or federal court.[8]
Both the criminal and the civil components allow the recovery of treble damages (triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages)
Civil provisions
The RICO statute contains a provision that allows for the commencement of a civil action by a private party to recover damages sustained as a result of the commission of a RICO predicate offense
And how exactly does he think that US civil law and/or RICO statutes are going to apply to the University of New Brunswick? I guarantee that the university lawyers are having a giggle right now.
I think the idea is that while it might be ok for an individual professor to pan his book, these professors conspired together specifically to destroy him, for … reasons I guess.
A couple of things I found interesting from the article. His law suit doesn’t actually specify what defamatory statements the professors made because “does not have to recite the defamation word for word, becoming his own distributor of what is false, in order to well plead a defamation claim.” Good luck with that. I’m no lawyer, but it is my understanding that if you want to sue somebody you actually have to say what they did.
There was no signature (on the guitar at least), it was not a Taylor Swift guitar at all. This article has something of an explanation.
But contrary to media reports, the guitar the man destroyed had not been signed by Swift — and was not a certified official guitar used by the singer, a source close to her merch company confirmed to Variety. The organization that held the auction, the Ellis County WildGame Dinner, presented the guitar with a signed CD insert but the guitar itself was not signed.
So the guitar was just a regular guitar and it came with a signed Taylor Swift CD insert. That was the part that was signed. The guitar was just part of the package. Smashing the guitar was a symbolic act of dumb rage. It seems like this was just something that got mixed up in the reporting, and/or they fudged the facts to make it seem like a better story. (Right wing guy buys signed Taylor Swift guitar to smash it in protest!)
I mean, the reality isn’t really any better than the initial reporting; this guy spent thousands of dollars for the right to smash a guitar in a public tantrum. It’s just that the details are not as some had reported them.
I’m still unclear on how he thinks an American civil suit will apply to a Canadian public university.
I note that the University lawyers have said that Mastriano, “does not assert precisely what he contends were false and defamatory about the statements” they are purported to have made, and then continued by calling the lawsuit “vague, conclusory and utterly incomprehensible.”
I bet they enjoyed writing this.
He should sue them for defamation.
And apparently what was auctioned was the right to make a stupid protest destruction. So it wasn’t one man going off, it was a collective event that was performative for the crowd of like- minded people.
Huh, interesting. But I have to ask, if there is a large criminal enterprise out to get you, is suing then for triple damages safe?
“Hey Corleone Family, you shot up my car when you went after that other mob guy. Pay me.”
Rat-a-tat-tat!
I use them for the bottom of the bird cage, to collect used parrot food. Saves me having to subscribe to a newspaper.
Easy. He files suit in a Pennsylvania court, naming the UNB as a defendant. The UNB is served with the filed Complaint (“Statement of Claim” in Canadian legal parlance), and now must draft and file an Answer (“Statement of Defense”) in that Pennsylvania court. Of course, what the UNB would actually do is retain a Pennsylvania law firm to represent it in that Pennsylvania court. It’s the Pennsylvania law firm that would draft and file the UNB’s Answer.
Cross-border, indeed, international, lawsuits happen all the time. Nothing unusual there. In the end, the court will sort everything out.
Hopefully they have more money than he does.