I want to forstall filing of law suits, especially in federal courts (which can be quite arbitrary). A simple, essentially bogus, legal action in a federal court with associated appeal can easily cost the defendant $100,000 or more.
Fred
From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:07:58 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Legal threats as grounds for automatic termination
I don't think that it's a question of what the Foundation has the legal right to do. Most of these "threats" of legal action are just a matter of blowing off steam. Many of these "disputes" don't come near to being a part of arbitration procedure. Do you really want to make more work for yourself than you already have? :-)
Ec
Fred Bauder wrote:
What I want to do is to create an agreement that all disputes will be handled through our arbitration procedure, thus precluding any legal action other than possible appeal of an arbitration decision. I don't think folks realize that we can legally do that.
Fred