[91823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SORBS Contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Mon Aug 14 10:21:08 2006
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:20:36 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <44E08389.4020701@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
> David Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Nonsense. You have tort obligations as well as contractual
>> obligations.
>> Specifically, if you take custody of someone else's data, and you have no
>> contract with that person, you have a tort obligation not to destroy it.
>
>
> The nonsense is here! I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure that if
> you abandon property (stretching the definition of "property" to get you
> foolishness into view) that I did not ask for on my property, I am am
> pretty sure that not only can I abate the nuisance, I in doing so have a
> tort claim against you for the damage and the cost of abatement.
>
> <triviata deletia>
Too bad I'm no longer bright enough to read my own .sig! Among other
things, it says there from time to time:
"Ex turpi causa non oritur actio" which I believe to be Lawyer Latin for
"No cause of action may be founded upon an immoral or illegal act".
(Thanks sixthformlaw.info for the quotation.)
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