How does jurisdiction work here? The piece never aired in the US, bbc is based in Britain, yet he’s filing in Florida?
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Trump is a resident of Florida, and the BBC does business in Florida via the website, BBCNews, Britbox licensing, etc. The complaint even talks about gray-market VPN viewing of iPlayer. Jurisdiction isn't really the issue. Establishing any actual harm at all will be the issue, to say nothing of "billions" of dollars worth of it from some splicing that is honestly editorial shading at worst. He is super pissed off in that speech, issues way more shaded threats than calls to peaceful actions, and pardoned the people who killed or injured multiple Capitol Police. Proving that the 10 or twenty people in Florida who actually saw the thing is worth anything to a plaintiff who won the fucking election is going to be an incredibly tall order for any half-way conscientious judge or jury.
It's typical Trump "lawfare," complete with breathless nonsense adjectives in the complaint to make the diaper baby anger-happy when he reads it. Only the sheer awfulness and expense of American litigation makes it even conceivable that the BBC will eventually settle, and if they do it will probably be right before discovery after they exhaust any motions to dismiss and other procedural tactics.
Honestly the beeb should just go “ok fuck you” and stop doing any business in Florida.
Most comanies of the world should say that and stop doing business in the whole of the united state of fascism until the orange child rapist dies.
Or it learns to stop being such a massive cunt, but, let's face it, there's no chance of that happening. So it's back to dying, which I hope will be excruciating.
Wasn't it $5b just an hour ago?
It's a rapidly evolving matter. And $5b just doesn't go as far as it did an hour ago.
How many eggs is that?
Three dozen eggs, or 4GB of RAM.
Now you're talking about big boy money the small billionaires just don't have.
How much could eggs cost, Michael? $10 billion?
5 billion per case.
$5bn in damages each on two counts,
5x2
Hey man, I work construction and only know 2x4
Sure they will!
No way will they capitulate!
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/s
At least they don’t have a merger they’re trying to get through, also giving away tax payer dollars is much harder than a corpo just bending the knee.
I don't think they have a choice. Where they're not a commercial organisation they be seen to back down and settle out of court. The public and political backlash would be way to great.
Let's start with "go fuck yourself, orange fascist".
How much of the licence fee is going to go on this crap? Just ignore him and he'll go away
He never paid their license fee so his lawsuit will be dismissed :)
"So, Mr Trump, how did you watch it, if you never paid the licence fee?.. Did you perhaps... commit TV Licence Fraud!?!"
Straight to jail. Finally, we got him on something he can't squirm or lie his way out of.
I think everyone in America should sue trump for 20 billion for violating our constitutional rights and for pain and suffering of watching him do crimes every day
Legally speaking? Mountains of evidence, too!
"de-fend"? Duhfend... Difond?
Sorry everyone, I'm American, and I dont understand this word with relation to Trump attacking them.
Did they mean "Depends", the adult diaper brand Trump uses?