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Hey! What's a Princeton grad like you, Phillabaum, doing posting on the Yale Daily News site?

Guys at my HS posted on the YDN site all the time. It was no big deal.

I would be very interested to know whether Mr. Ciolli filed and argued a Rule 11 motion in the Federal District Court action. If it had been filed, was it dropped or was it unsuccessful -- if sanctions issued on the basis of such a Rule 11 motion the press might tell us. A successful Rule 11 motion would mean that the Federal Judge found that the claims in the complaint in the District Court action were meritless. A failure to prevail on such a motion might be construed as evidence of the opposite. Failure to file such a motion might be argued to be an indication the particular defendant in that action did not find any harm worth Complaining about. And note that the sequence of events here relative to the alleged action by the law firm who supposedly rescinded their offer is arguably not crucial, rather it might be argued that a defect in the pleadings such as the presence of falsehoods (were the facts set forth "on information and belief") should have been apparent ab initio to the defendant, who presumably would be best situated among the parties to make such assessment.

comment above is incomprehensible.

It might be construed as evidence of the opposite? What an insight, and yet not how the legal system works. Failure does not prove the null.

Dear anonymous

To speak in your pidgin: "comment above is incoherent."

So re your "comment above is incomprehensible." (I'll look on that as an admission of sorts.) And you would claim the following "statement" somehow is? "What an insight, and yet not how the legal system works."

How does it work pray tell oh sagacious one? Well?

Can you understand "Failure does not prove the null," and "might be construed" are consonant?

Your string of fortune cookie pronouncements make it plain that you have no idea whatsoever how the "legal system works." Or do you actually believe you can somehow determine to a certainty the outcome of a Judge's decision or even what a Judge might find relevant to a determination?

The real question is why I would bother even posing those questions to you, for the answer is clear...

All is not lost, however -- at least you gave me a good laugh.

Excellent article.

Why is it that student journalists seem to write balanced and accurate articles about this case, yet "professional" journalists seem to screw the whole thing up?

If anything, you'd think that a Yale paper would be biased toward the Yale students. I haven't seen one whiff of that kind of integrity from this paper.

Kudos. If only the AP and the WaPo had such ethics and professionalism.