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The point of bringing it up is irrelevant, since it is irrelevant to the case.
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It is relevant to the case, because IMDb had no right to distribute the information.
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Since it is irrelevant to the case, and wasn't part of it, no precedent was set. There are no new legal issues there whatsoever. That issue is governed by IMDB's contract with their merchant service. If their merchant service doesn't see fit to puruse the matter, it's no one else's business.
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It is relevant, and the issue is governed by the agreement between IMDb and its customer.
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Only in a limited context. Birth records are public records.
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They are public records but that doesn't mean that they are available for public viewing. The Records Preservation and Access Committee of The Federation of Genealogical Societies and The National Genealogical Society recommends
that birth records be open to the public not less than one - hundred (100) years after the event.
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They had no contractual obligation to the plaintiff in this case. She had no standing in the issue.
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Again, that is not the point. IMDb was not allowed to distribute the information.
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There's nothing arbitrary about age discrimination in Hollylwood.
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You do realize that I was replying to this:
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Discriminating on the basis of ethnicity is illegal. Discriminating on the basis of age, generally speaking, is not.
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Age discrimination is illegal, and as you pointed out before:
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Yeah, it's amazing what a good makeup artist can do with a bucket of spackle and a trowel.
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... Hollywood has absolutely no valid reason to discriminate based on age.
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Indeed. That's why it was irrelevant.
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I don't think that you understand how analogies work.
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You're trying to push emotional buttons by playing the race card, and doing so poorly, because your analogy is unrelated to the case at hand. I can only assume you're doing so because you know the facts are not on your side.
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I made an analogy by replacing the discrimination in question (age) with a different one (race). All forms of discrimination are supposed to push emotional buttons.