A Canadian court has ordered an Edmonton man to pay anti-hate fighter Richard Warman $50,000 in damages arising from a series of defamatory Internet postings.
Court Awards $50,000 in Damages Over Net Postings
October 23, 2008
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Other information about the defendant.
Bill Grosvenor is well known in Edmonton journalism circles as well as the Usenet newsgroup edm.general for at least the past thirteen years. He has previous injunctions filed against him by the Ghermezian family, owners of West Edmonton Mall. Stories have appeared about him in the past in a number of print media including Forbes.
He has many, many vile postings in the edm.general newsgroup under a wide range of aliases.
See http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/g/grosvenor-william/ for more information.