A US blogger who caused a man to lose his lost his job after reporting his mortgage fraud has been fined by a glorious US court.
Blogger Johnny Northside Hoff told the truth when he linked ex-community leader Jerry Moore to a high-profile mortgage fraud.
The post got Moore fired and he then sued Hoff and surprisingly a jury agreed with him in the Land of the Fee.
The Hennepin County jury ordered Hoff to pay Moore $35,000 for lost wages and $25,000 for emotional distress.
John Hoff's blog, The Adventures of Johnny Northside, has 300 to 500 readers daily. Moore was the former director of the Jordan Area Community Council.
According to the Star Tribune, lawyers are divided as to whether the case would be overturned.
Jane Kirtley, a University of Minnesota professor of media law and ethics, said the cause was an example of "trash torts." It is what someone does when they can't sue for libel because the allegation is true.
She predicted the verdict will be overturned because it is covered by the First Amendment.
But U of M law professor William McGeveran, was not convinced that an appeals courts would retract a jury .
After Moore was fired by Jordan Area Community Council in January 2009, he was hired at the University of Minnesota's Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (sic) to study mortgage foreclosures.
When Hoff found out, he wrote a post accusing Moore of being involved in a "high-profile fraudulent mortgage," one of several that resulted in a 16-year prison sentence for former real estate agent Larry Maxwell.
Moore was not charged in the Maxwell case, although Hoff claimed he had documentation.
District Judge Denise Reilly threw out four of the five statements, saying they were either opinion or the comments of others on the blog.
But the jury agreed with Clark's claim that Hoff had committed "tortious interference" by meddling with Moore's employment.
The other layers of the costly business ensure that when a gamble is not in effect whereby direct evidence is available, being that The Judiciary is founded upon what money can buy, the oral mavericks are still there to finesse the case such that slanting the presentation is then part of the judiciary too. Never mind the truth but finesse first eh, if it pleases your lordship. Direct evidence then is not the matter at hand but who has been maligned - the freedom within democracy which ensures that “feelings” come before the truth - you have to account for the “Rightists” and their “Rights” first. As such, The Judicary is nothing but just another religion where the way the truth is obtained and presented is more important than the truth. This is another gift from The Bookie through His pet Genes, The Chosen Few. When the day of reckoning is ineffect, the “adjustment” of The Bookie might be a good bonfire show because He is such a baddie but you need the full protection of your Immunity/Self-Mastery to watch seemingly good guys being taken apart - “Eet can’t be, he’s sooo rich, handsome, always a charitable chappie and the way he moves, how can G_d be soo mistaken…” and so forth. Without absoluteness of discrimination, humility is a must otherwise the discriminations of the left/conditionings and the right/ego will rule each and every day until Boom, Bang & KaBoom takes centre stage - which is where most [99.9% ? and that is perhaps being generous] will be.
Democracy is founded upon freedoms and the anchor point of these freedoms is decided upon by the “majority”, the rationality being that 49% out of 100% is not good enough. That’s alright then but how come that when it comes to the majority, 5% [generous ‘enuff?] owning/controlling perhaps 80% of the resources is AOK? Aha, but those lovely glitzy good guys are there because they have the freedom to get to where they are - got eeet? Well sweetness and goodness, that is why Democracy is just another religion, religion being the knowledge which lacks its empowerment and don’t the nutters believe their religion to the core as they turn every stone to get to the rights of the majority. As the likes of Hitler had shown, the majority doesn’t mean more, it means absoluteness because to be absoltue is more than larger, it means infinite. For the 5% still counting their zillions, their finger-snapping privileges und their, “Vy is zist still not 100% white like me”, to be infinite means being universal. Got eet? Universality is what counts and by that one has to include The Sun, The Moon and others whenever The Earth is mentioned. You really have to get it by now or perhaps tweeting and facing about which evil to take down next is the better religion whilst conveniently forgetting about one’s very own “evils”. That then is the biggest trick of The Devil, to turn the worshippers-cum-saviours into baddie hunters when they themselves are also baddies in other universal aspects and not just some convenient evil of the moment.
http://jordanhawkman.blogspot.com/2011/03/did-jury-say-john-hoff-lied.html