Monday, January 01, 2007
JSH: Legal brainstorming, value of research
Continuing the process of brainstorming how a legal option might play out, I've noticed that posters make replies indicating they think that somehow a legal battle could be made to be about me.
But the issue is the value of my research, and how easily that is determined.
I like the diamond analogy.
Say there is this quirky fellow who is confident he is going to find a HUGE and very valuable diamond in an area where others think they've mined them all out.
In his quest he has often got it wrong, rushing to diamond experts with rocks that turned out to not be diamonds, and they have hooted and hollered and ridiculed him in return, or mostly ignored him.
But then, he finds a huge diamond.
The experts can of course just look and see whether he has a diamond or not, but instead of admitting that he has finally done this thing, and found a huge and valuable diamond, they claim that again he has just found a worthless rock, and seek to cheat him out of the value of the diamond.
So he takes them to court.
Can the diamond experts question his credibility in a court case as part of their own defense?
Can they even talk about his past failures in finding diamonds at all, and even if they could, do you think it'd matter to a judge and jury?
Or is it just about the diamond he found and what the diamond experts did?
But the issue is the value of my research, and how easily that is determined.
I like the diamond analogy.
Say there is this quirky fellow who is confident he is going to find a HUGE and very valuable diamond in an area where others think they've mined them all out.
In his quest he has often got it wrong, rushing to diamond experts with rocks that turned out to not be diamonds, and they have hooted and hollered and ridiculed him in return, or mostly ignored him.
But then, he finds a huge diamond.
The experts can of course just look and see whether he has a diamond or not, but instead of admitting that he has finally done this thing, and found a huge and valuable diamond, they claim that again he has just found a worthless rock, and seek to cheat him out of the value of the diamond.
So he takes them to court.
Can the diamond experts question his credibility in a court case as part of their own defense?
Can they even talk about his past failures in finding diamonds at all, and even if they could, do you think it'd matter to a judge and jury?
Or is it just about the diamond he found and what the diamond experts did?
# posted by James Harris @ 16:34 
