On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, William X. Walsh wrote:
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> Question to the list : anyone familiar with Texas law? Is the public
> posting of a message here for a meeting that does not exist a violation
> of any Texas Laws? If someone were to make this trip and find (not
> surprisingly) that the meeting was fraudulently posted, what legal
> recourse would they have? Specifically criminal not civil.
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IANAL, and I don't know the criminal laws, but I can point out two Texas
laws. The more important of the two is from the Texas Business and
Community Code, Chapter 17, Subchapter E, 17.46(b)(24), under which it is
illegal to use, "the term 'corporation', 'incorporated', or an
abbreviation of either of those terms in the name of a business entity
that is not incorporated under the laws of this state or another
jurisdiction."
Also, since the advert for the Texas Stadium meeting advertised that
'25,000 organizations, companies and individuals' were planning to attend,
then 17.46(b)(5) also applies:
"representing that goods or services have sponsorship, approval,
characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits or quanitities whichy they
do not have or that a person has a sponsorship, approval, status,
affiliation, or connection which he does not"
Since 'INEG' has offered goods and services in the past (I want a
shrinkwrapped copy of 'bindles+'), you can probably go after him under the
Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act of Texas.
--
Alex Kamantauskas
Tugger Networks
