A woman sues the wrong web site for libel and wins

[thewayne]

"It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."

Teh stupid wins again! You'd think both sites could counter-sue, and I hope they do. Their lawyer needs a serious whap upside the head by a clue-by-four.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100831/18025610848.shtml

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/02/1250224/Woman-Wins-Libel-Suit-By-Suing-Wrong-Website

Comments

[silveradept]

Wow. Just goes to show that the system really is rigged against you when nobody checks to see if there's a mistake along the way by, y'know, actually going to the site in question or something?