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In the meantime, the group is barred from allowing its members to post full-text articles from The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.

But the Los Angeles Slimes is A-OK with The Smirking Chimp posting full-text articles more than a year AFTER the "decision" by their pet judge. ;-)

I smell SLAPP suit!!!

I smell SLAPP suit!!!
Hmmm... Could be.

SLAPP = "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation"

From http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/Beder_SLAPPS.html:

"...Every year thousands of people are sued in the USA for speaking out against governments and corporations. Multi-million dollar law suits are being filed against individual citizens and groups for circulating petitions, writing to public officials, speaking at, or even just attending, public meetings, organising boycotts and engaging in peaceful demonstrations.[2] These law suits have been labelled "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" or SLAPPs by University of Denver academics Penelope Canan and George Pring, who have been studying such suits for more than a decade with the help of funding from the US National Science Foundation...
...One trial judge pointed out:
The conceptual thread that binds [SLAPPs] is that they are suits without substantial merit that are brought by private interests to "stop citizens from exercising their political rights or to punish them for having done so"...The longer the litigation can be stretched out, the more litigation that can be churned, the greater the expense that is inflicted and the closer the SLAPP filer moves to success. The purpose of such gamesmanship ranges from simple retribution for past activism to discouraging future activism.[17]...

In the meantime, the group is barred from allowing its members to post full-text articles from The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
But the Los Angeles Slimes is A-OK with The Smirking Chimp posting full-text articles more than a year AFTER the "decision" by their pet judge. ;-)

As an update to my PREVIOUS documentation (on 12/3/01) of this fact, once again, for the record, MANY left-wing websites have been posting (and CONTINUE to post) full-text articles from the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post - apparently with the knowledge and consent of those corporations.

And this practice continues, as recently as TODAY. See, for instance, an Los Angeles Times article by John Balzar called "Out of Step, but With a Big Swagger" posted online in all of its copyrighted FULL TEXT glory at:

www.Smirkingchimp.com