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Coka-Karma - Lawsuit against Coke?

  
 
guyz
21:15 / 29.06.01
(Excuse me if this has been discussed before - I've been a bit out of touch lately.)

Does anyone know what the hell this is about?
http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/

quote:...for the past four years Coke has employed one of the country’s top intellectual property lawyers to defend a case that it has never identified in its annual SEC filings. What’s more, the $4 billion lawsuit has gone totally unreported by a national media that has, of late, reveled in the prospect of major U.S. corporations involved in trials that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Great story, but something smells fishy. I checked up on some of the characters, and they seem to be real enough, though not exactly as portrayed in the text...Is this true, or a big fat hoax?

[ 30-06-2001: Message edited by: guyz ]
 
 
Ray Fawkes
14:05 / 30.06.01
It's a real case, but the article is remarkably one-sided. If you read between the lines, it's not too hard to figure out that the guy's initial pro se case was a complete mess. In American justice, all appeals and continuances in a case build upon the initial hearing, so it doesn't surprise me that the Judge was knocking this guy's appeals out left and right.

However, if it's true that the judge ruled on an accusation of misconduct on her own part, then there's been a serious miscarriage of justice.

I wish the article had been written with more of an eye towards reporting the events from an objective viewpoint, instead of the brutally biased one we got.
 
  
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