While this end is certainly favorable for Inman, I'd have preferred if this was decided in court. This way Carreon can pretend that he had to abandon his just campaign under pressure of the savage hordes of the Internet and try again with a softer target than Inman. If he had been thrown out of court with a clear statement, things would look different.
What is the legal punishment for filing frivolous lawsuit? For every case backed down like Carreon, there must be a lot more people caved to legal backmails.
I'm quite glad this brouhaha is over - it not only threatened a legitimate fundraiser, but also (should it have gone through) potentially threatened freedom of speech and expression across the web.
Enough is enough, and Carreon saw fit to realize this.
I'll go with the whole thing was a well orchestrated multi party facade to pump money into cancer research.
But as far as we know, he has not (yet) rescinded his threat to sue the person who started the Satirical Charles website, right?
I wish they would go to court. I'd love nothing more than than the judge saying when he was issuing his ruling: "By the way, I must add I'm ashamed that I'm working in the same legal system as you, Mr. Carreon. I wish I could disqualify you from doing legal stuff from now on". That would make my day.
This is sad. It would have been much better if it had gone to court, with carreon losing the case, and made to pay the legal fees to Inman, and probably a fine for wasting court's time.
At least, the charities will get the money - for all the drama and time wasted, something good came out of it
Charles Carreon and his wife are almost as bad as Westboro Baptist's Fred Phelps and his cronies. Just doing it because they're too stubborn, ignorant or righteous to see the fallacy of their ways.
People like these only fuel my misanthropy.
At last sanity prevailed, it will be one of those real comic legends "once upon a time a lawyer tried bullying an artist and the artist fought back with satire"
I'm kind of disappointed this is over, it was actually starting to become entertaining.
I think items like this are probably not useful or worthwhile as targets for upmodding on HN. We're basically just clicking up-arrow because we like the outcome and see the post here.
We will all hear about this, unless we live under a rock. And for those of us under a rock, it's probably for a good reason.
News items like this and a lack of community discipline to disregard them are how I remember reddit beginning its slide in quality.
The comments this story will attract on HN will not likely add anything to the discussion that's been going on across the Interwebs.
I'm guessing he's about to be disbarred again.
This free publicity was the best thing to ever happen to the Oatmeal.
yoyo
How is Carreon going to be punished?
It's great that Inman won, but he won not in small part because he's a famous personality that helped gather internet rage--and then the EFF--to his side. But what if he was a nobody? EFF would have very likely told him they were too busy, Carreon would have pressed on, and lots and lots of hard-earned money would have gone down the drain. It makes me so mad that the legal system is so one-sided. Surely Carreon at least must be paying Inman's attorneys' fees!