Trey Burke sued despite apology
Trey Burke has been named in a Macomb County lawsuit seeking over $25,000 in damages (minimum that has to be mentioned in the complaint).
This arises out of unfortunate joking about the guy on Twitter, that Shaq mocked, who turned out to have a rare disease. Shaq and Waka Flocka were also named as defendants. It is unknown if any of the other, non-wealthy, re-twetters were also named, but for some reason I doubt it.
While I feel bad for the guy, I do not think the actions were intended to be hostile AND all three apologized to him privately and publicly. In my opinion, this should not be a viable cause of action.
The defendants are wealthy and they made a social media mistake.
Law firms are businesses that need money and publicity.
If you have strong feeling about this and you are a recoverable potential party, please watch your comments.
And we will all be dumber as a result.
I expressed an opinion + somebody mocked me and my opinion + OMG my virgin ears/eyes + I'm protected class = Lawsuit
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Congratulations everybody. We live in a society where you can lose your home for making a mean Twitter comment.
Living disconnected on a ranch in Montana (except for Michigan football games) is sounding better all the time.
Between social media and our loving government spying on everything we do, I am so glad that I have a very minimal social media footprint. Couldn't tell you the last time I was on Facebook, Twitter, instagram. This board is my social media.
Someone needs to create a celebrity Twitter style site that has some kind of disclaimer that you can do and say anything about anyone else that has an account. Then celebrities and the rich could talk whatever BS they want about each other and face no repercussions. The site could also charge normal people that are obsessed with celebrities a fee to see what they are saying. There's my million dollar idea.
I really thought MTV was on to something when they created the Claymation Celebrity Death Match series. It just didn't go far enough.
I wonder what will the paperazzi do if celebrities stay in and just send mean tweets on this platform?
Maybe kick the idea around some more.....https://www.kickstarter.com/
I hardly ever post anything, but I just wanted to let all of you know that I've been thouroughly impressed with the conversations and banter that have taken place on the blog for the last week or two. A lot of great humor and respectful debate. I don't know if it's because of the offseason, but there has been a lack of idiots around here and I find it very refreshing. Keep it up and I'll go back to lurking.
honestly shaq has a long history of being an incorrigible asshole. he was going to get sued by someone sooner or later. might as well be from someone that looks like they could use the money.
Seems like a good enough young man. Douche move in this case. Don't really care if he apologized. He needs to appreciate what he's got, hang around w/ a better quality of people and keep his nose clean and mouth shut. Don't they teach you that in minor millionaire school?
We have something called FREEDOM OF SPEECH in this country...and while what was tweeted was wrong and insensitve it certainly isnt ILLEGAL....it now seems if you get your feelings hurt you Sue ....this case will not win. I feel sorry for the guy and yes it was cold and insensitive but if we sued everytime we got our feelings hurt wed all be in court
August 1st, 2014 at 11:34 AM ^
TBIII is awesome