Alex and William,
Please do attempt this legal approach. After you have been made a
fool of in court, we will than pursue legal abuse and filing a false
legal action against anyone whom makes such an attempt.
Alex Kamantauskas wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, William X. Walsh wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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
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