[WikiEN-l] Can the building owner be sued?

Sun Apr 23 23:17:23 UTC 2006

> From: "Anthony DiPierro" <wikilegal at inbox.org>
>
> So someone goes to a community corkboard in an apartment building and
> writes "John Heybobarebob is gay" on the bathroom door.  Then the
> owner of the apartment building sees the defamatory statement, takes
> down the message, and stores it in a closet with a bunch of other
> removed messages.  Then a janitor goes into to the closet, takes the
> message, and creates photocopies which she proceeds to hand out to
> people.
>
> You think the building owner can be sued?

I'm _certain_ the building owner can be sued.

The question is, can the plaintiff win? That's a completely different  
question... and since IANAL I wouldn't even try to guess.