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

Sun Apr 23 23:49:16 UTC 2006

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 4/23/06, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>I'm _certain_ the building owner can be sued.
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>>The question is, can the plaintiff win? That's a completely different
>>question... and since IANAL I wouldn't even try to guess.
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>C'mon now, there are plenty of people who are not lawyers who are
>trying to guess.  Surely the fact that you are not a lawyer is not the
>reason you wouldn't even try to guess.
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No, the real reason he isn't trying to guess is because he has good 
sense. You don't see any lawyers trying to guess, do you?

--Michael Snow