Sometimes these lunatic fringe nutcases can be dangerous, especially if some lawyer thinks he has stumbled across a deep pocket.
People have the right to sue anyone for anything, if they can find a lawyer who will take the case. I have the theoretical right to sue you because I don't like the style of your tee-shirt. Unfortunately, I have heard of cases where people ignored totally frivolous and insane lawsuits and ended up losing the case by "default" and having a serious judgement placed against them, which they were legally obligated to pay, simply because they failed to respond. One such case was a paternity suit filed by a woman that the defendant had never even heard of and who lived in another state, and the defendant wasn't even aware of the suit because the only notice was placed in an out-of-state newspaper. She evidently found his name and address somewhere and concocted a story that he was the father of her now adult child. The reason the code speed was reduced to 5 wpm before the FCC dropped it altogether was that someone sued the FCC under the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming that their "disability" prevented them from learning to copy code at 13 or 20 wpm. The FCC resolved the case by granting "waivers" to anyone who had a doctor's note attesting that they had such a disability, and allowing them to pass General and Extra with only a Novice code test. Later, the FCC determined that a large number of the waivers were fraudulent, since it was not difficult to find a medical doctor, who might not have a clue what morse code is or how it is copied, who would write a note. So the FCC took care of the fraud problem by granting a waiver to EVERYBODY. They simply reduced the code requirement to 5 wpm for all classes. Don, k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ----- Original Message ----- > Here's the text of the referenced newspaper article... See LAST line... > > ...Larry, W1GOR > > Santa Fe Residents Allege City's Wi-Fi Affecting Their "Electromagnetic > Allergies" > January 12, 2010 2:44 p.m. EST > Topics: United States, Technology > > Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Editor > Santa Fe, NM, United States (AHN) - A small group of Santa Fe residents > is > trying to get all public Wi-Fi hotpsots in the city banned. They allege > the > city's Access Points (AP) irritated their "electromagnetic allergies." > > In their legal effort to ban the signals, the group is using the > Americans > with Disabilities Act as a measure to have city lawmakers bow to their > pressure. The case has now reached a new level with published reports > stating that one of the individuals in the original case is suing his > neighbors for refusing to turn off their cellphone and Wi-Fi hotspot. > > Artuhur Firstenberg is claiming his neighbor's technology forced him to > be > homeless. He's unable to stay in a hotel or motel because they employ > Wi-Fi > connections so he's been forced to sleep in his car. > > Health officials have repeatedly stated that there is no evidence to > suggest Wi-Fi signals have any impact on the human body. Additionally, > scientific studies have shown that people who claim to suffer from > "electromagnetic sensitivity" are in fact suffering from psychosomatic > disorders and are best treated by therapy or medication. > > ------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
