[WikiEN-l] Will the WMF protect admins acting as their agentsto enforce policies?

[Cascadia]

I specifically stated that I could not find any admin action that could be 
taken by any admin that could be sued upon without the complatintant being 
laughed out of the court room, but we're talking about those situations 
where the case goes before "The one judge in the world who would hear it".

-Cascadia

"Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> 
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> What kind of things are we expecting admins to get sued over? If an
> admin does something illegal, it is the admin that is responsible,
> quite obviously (not that I can see anything with illegal potential
> among the admin tools). If the WMF were to protect admins that are
> sued unfairly, the WMF would need to determine whether or not the
> legal action is justified, which is the whole point of the court case.
> Are the board meant to guess the outcome of the trial and if they
> guess it will be not guilty then they lend a hand?
>
> I can't see anything an admin could do within the policies of any
> Wikimedia project that would put them at risk legally. If you get sued
> unfairly, then you can always counter-sue for the costs. Finding the
> money to pay a lawyer until the end of the trial might be tricky, but
> I wouldn't be surprised if you could get someone to do it pro bono.
>
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