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psy:
another good bit:


--- Quote ---After creating his website, Crawford sent an email to Longnecker at Benchmark on December 12, 2006, inviting her to review the website and advise him if it contained any inaccuracies stating: "I'd rather avoid the lawyers if at all possible. i am making an effort to be as accurate as possible and if for some reason i made a mistake i (sic) would rather have you correct me..." (Exh. 79.) Longnecker apparently did not respond to the email.
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psy:
Oh.  And probably my favorite part of all (it's ginger's fave too, apparantly, as she pasted it to me while we were chatting earlier.


--- Quote ---Benchmark contends that the alleged defamatory statements on Crawford's website have caused it to suffer a significant drop in new enrollments, from 51 in 2006, to 34 in 2007, and only 13 in 2008. As each enrollment is valued at approximately $60,000 per year, this translated into a substantial economic loss.
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Antigen:

--- Quote from: "psy" --- statements on Crawford's website have caused [Benchmark] to suffer a significant drop in new enrollments, from 51 in 2006, to 34 in 2007, and only 13 in 2008. As each enrollment is valued at approximately $60,000 per year, this translated into a substantial economic loss.
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 :rasta:  :hug:  8)

You da man! Hey, and lest we forget, Che put himself out there too. In retrospect, all things having come down the way they have, I surely wish I had jumped on that plane and been out there with you.

psy:

--- Quote from: "Antigen" ---I surely wish I had jumped on that plane and been out there with you.
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It would have been great to have you (and your creative mind) there...  I'm quite sure Benchmark would have loved you.  But maybe next time.  So which program is next?  I dunno.  Haven't been to a PFC protest yet.  That sounds good for me.  Maybe a PV protest with a bunch of us?  Maybe protesting WWASP parent premier seminars, handing out info on what the whole thing is about?

psy:
Another good quote...  then I'll post a document if people ask pretty please.


--- Quote ---Here, there is little doubt that schools (facilities, treatment centers, residential centers, etc.) where parents place their troubled children are a matter of public concern.  Plaintiffs cannot make a serious argument against this proposition for to do so would negate the reason for their very existence. Indeed, Benchmark and "schools" like it are in existence because the public has found a need to find programs willing provide educational/emotional/social and other services to children, including those of legal majority, outside of the home. And the parties do not dispute the fact that the oversight of such facilities and protection of vulnerable youth is also a matter of public concern, prompting Legislative discussion, if not pending bills. Interpreting the First Amendment and section 425.16 in a manner 'favorable to the exercise of freedom of speech, not to its curtailment' (Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity, supra, 19 Cal.4th at p. 1119, fn. omitted), the discussion of Benchmark's program by a former student on a website, with warnings to prospective parents and students researching it and other locations, falls within the realm of public concern.
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