information regarding Ms. Ford. From our
investigation, I have
concluded that your website does indeed publish materially
false information regarding Ms. Ford.
Specifically:
You publish an incorrect birthdate for Ms. Ford
You publish other incorrect biographical information
regarding Ms. Ford.
Now that you know by my admonition to you above, that this
information
you publish is *patently false,* I hope that you will follow
what I recommend as the simple resolution of this Libel
situation: that you remove all reference to Ms. Ford from
your website.
Is this a form letter? How could it be faster for him to type all that
than to say "Ms. Ford's birthday is actually xx/xx/xxxx"?
In any case, I don't see how you can demand removal of all reference to
something from a website. In the case of wikipedia, that's a poor
solution - the information would just come back, unwatched.
If you persist and continue to patently publish false and misleading
information that continues to be injurious to my client, then
How can an incorrect birthdate be injurious? What is the unspecified
other "incorrect information"?
Federal laws. I attached an article from
CNN.com that
I am
certain your legal
department is aware.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/11/wikipedia.ap/index.html
He didn't read this bit? "Seigenthaler said he doesn't plan to pursue
legal action against Chase." And in that case the information actually
is defamatory.
Is there a standard reply to such things now? Do you recommend that the
aggrieved parties edit the pages themselves, or is it always "we'll get
someone onto it straight away"?
Steve