Some of her enemies sued or threatened to sue, the best known case being that of Lillian Hellman, of whom McCarthy said on the Dick Cavett show, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' "Others wreaked a quieter but nastier revenge by concocting delicious tributes in her honor.
"The model of suing your best customers and subpoenaing private information is doomed to failure," Klein observes.
Now things are so bad, she says, that she is using her knowledge of the judicial system to do what lawyers do best — sue.
When the RIAA finally caught wind of Allofmp3.com, it set out to do what it does best — sue.
("Seriously, why would I sue Madonna for the best moment of my life?" the teenager told the Courier-Mail. "It was the best night").
Sue's best one-liner: "Stop buttoning your shirts up all of the way like a demented 90-year-old.
"Seriously, why would I sue Madonna for the best moment of my life?" the teenager told Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper.
"The U.K. is probably the best plaintiff jurisdiction anywhere, and as a consequence we get increasingly sophisticated plaintiffs looking at which country is best to sue in and being increasingly attracted to the U.K".
Shareholders who feel that managers have not acted in their best interests can sue them.
(It was eventually published by Gibson Square, a small house with few assets to sue over, and became a best seller in Britain as well).
While violation of patents is a concern, and there may be ways to sue some individual lawbreakers, the best way to handle this threat, he said, may well be to embrace the new technology and the new markets it opens.
