re: #406 Iosif Vissarionovich Arpaio

Unf. her plea for relief seems too modest, not even mentioning an apology. Doesn’t seem as if she will make a large dent.

Not a lawyer, of course, but reading it, her prayer for relief seems normal:

PRAYER FOR RELIEF

Plaintiff prays that this Court provide the following relief:

(1)An order requiring Defendant Breitbart to remove the defamatory language and video from his blog;

(2) An order requiring Defendant O’Connor to remove the defamatory videoclips from YouTube.com;

(3) An order enjoining Defendants from engaging in future tortious conduct against Mrs. Sherrod;

(4) Compensatory and consequential damages for detraction from good name and reputation, for mental anguish, distress and humiliation, and for injuries to Plaintiff’s occupation in an amount of no less than $5,001;

(5) Punitive damages to punish Defendants’ reprehensible conduct and to deter its future occurrence;

(6) Costs and fees incurred in the prosecution of this action; and

(7) Further relief as this Court shall deem just and proper.

1 and 2 mean that Andy would have to scrub everything from his site and YouTube. 3 means he and his idiot minions would have to leave her alone.

For number 4, this is where things get interesting. As I understand it, consequential damages are damages that are awarded because of entirely foreseeable result of wrongdoing. In this case, it was a foreseeable outcome that Andy’s malicious actions would directly lead to Mrs. Sherrod losing her job and income. She’d be entitled to consequential damages (i.e., $$$) for his actions for that.

Compensatory damages would replace what was lost, and nothing more. I’m not sure, but I think it would mean she’s entitled to the equivalent of her lost income as a result of his actions.

5 is where the punitive damages come in, and that’s the court slapping Andy with a hefty sum of money that he’d owe. It’s a punishment and meant to deter him from doing this shit again.

6 would mean that Andy would have to pay Mrs. Sherrod’s lawyers for their time and would also have to pay the court costs. And 7 means that if the judge and court can think of anything else, they can toss that in too.

Basically, she doesn’t want an apology. She wants to force him to take all the things he said about her down, she wants him to leave her the hell alone, and she wants to take his ass to the cleaners.