FIFA called Mr. Scala's objections "unfounded claims which are baseless".
"A person can be destroyed if allegations which are baseless are raised against him," says Rabbi David Zwiebel, Agudath's executive vice-president, by way of explanation.
"I am not going to let these accusations, which are baseless, bogus and false stop me," he said.
"This is a rumor which is completely baseless.
Maybe they worry that in a crisis, relatives won't really honor their instructions, which is not a baseless fear.
It was "a repetition of old claims which were proven baseless by Iran in a precise 117-page response, " he added.
But Jonas Steinman, co-founder of iWon.com, which is backed by CBS, said such opinions were baseless.
The late 1980s and early 1990s had seen a string of bogus "recovered memory" cases alleging Satanic ritual abuse and subsequent of mass panic over claims which were shown to be baseless, created by those "recovering" the memories.
The allegations of the protesters against the School of the Americas, which is now closed, were investigated and found baseless.
Steven Stengel, a spokesman for Dynegy, which is based here, said today that the accusations outlined in the lawsuit were baseless.
Mattel, which has said the suit is baseless, will now have to battle in court.
