Justus For All

Things like “I paid a small fortune to a ugly girl for sex.”

The case apparently beat summary judgment, so there has to be something there. As I understand it, there apparently is a civil action for broadcasting another person’s private life if doing so causes someone to suffer harm. The downside, and why most folks don’t understand why he’s suing, is obviously these embarrassing facts are going to be publicized even more as a result of this trial, unless the media decides to ignore a trial that focuses on spanking and handcuffs in out of a sense of decorum and good taste.

In other news, the weather forecast in hell calls for light snow and cooler temperatures.

Steinbuch can’t put the genie back in the bottle, obviously, but he can punish Cutler for broadcasting their sex life to the world, and he may have a case on the merits as I undestand them. The defense is not that the words are true - the defense is she published them anonymously, using pseudonyms for both her and Steinbuch, and that their identities became known was an unforeseen consequence of Cutler’s unexpected, and at that time, unwanted celebrity.

Which means the whole thing is Wonkette’s fault.

You know a whole lot more about this sort of thing than I do, but I don’t see any sort of case here from my layman’s understanding of the law. I suspect that it avoided being summarily dismissed because it is sort of a ‘new’ venue for this sort of thing and that the judge felt that the issue deserved to be addressed but I don’t expect he will win.