Company Uses Courts to Clamp Down on Activist

Isn't this always the way?

"A Canadian stay-at-home mom of 3 recently created a website to report on environmental problems around her neighborhood. The general public and governmental workers lauded her for her efforts. The environmental Ministry spokesman was even quoted as saying 'Obviously we can't have staff everywhere all the time, so we depend on the public out there as surrogate eyes and ears for the ministry'. However, not everyone was quite as happy, as she soon found out, when one company decided to sue her for libel to the tune of $2 million." [From Slashdot]

Naturally, the normal course of action here is for the company to make the court process so lengthy and expensive that the mother can't afford to continue. It's a travesty that this fact, rather than the facts of the case, doubtless will be the basis for its resolution.