[CPRB] Taser suing USA Today

[Ricky Baldwin]

Not that I feel sorry for USA Today or Gannett in any
way -- I wish a hundred lawsuits on them -- but not
for this. 
And I very much like that this Reuters article refers
to people shot by Tasers as "victims" -- wonder when
the next lawsuit will be announced :-)

Taser says it sues USA Today for libel
7-1-05

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stun gun maker Taser
International Inc. said on Friday it had filed a
lawsuit against Gannett Co. Inc., accusing the USA
Today parent of libeling its weapons. 

The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company said the
lawsuit, filed in an Arizona state court, targets a
USA Today article on June 3 which it said
misrepresented the electrical output of Taser weapons
and compared them in photographs with electric chairs,
lightning and electric train tracks.

A representative for Gannett, which is also the parent
company of the Arizona Republic newspaper, was not
immediately available for comment.

Taser accused Gannett of publishing a series of
misleading articles about its products, which disable
victims with a 50,000-volt shock.

"Over the course of this biased campaign, more than $1
billion dollars of shareholder value has been erased,"
Taser Chief Executive Rick Smith said in a statement.

Taser shares have lost 11.5 percent over the past
month and 68 percent so far this year.
(Additional reporting by Paul Thomasch) 




		
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