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Blawg Innovator: Greenfield's Pre-emptive Comment Strike

By Bruce Carton

Scott "Get Off My Lawn" Greenfield, who writes the tremendous Simple Justice blog, has added an innovative new wrinkle to the blawg world: the pre-emptive comment strike. After thousands of posts on Simple Justice, and probably tens (or hundreds) of thousands of comments on his posts, Greenfield can sometimes see what is coming before he hits the publish button. And now he is striking back, in advance. In a Friday post from SJ following up on this LBW post on whether a retailer has the authority to stop a patron who has purchased and paid for goods on the way out of the store and demand to see a receipt, Greenfield foresaw no less than three streams of misguided comments coming his way. And thus, in this "Caveat," the pre-emptive comment strike was born. Caveat: Given the enormous difficulty some readers/commenters have had lately in focusing on the point of the post, I'm constrained to make a few things clear: First, clearly the most expedient thing for the shopper to do was be compliant, do as he was told and then walk away. That's neither in issue nor the point. The question is whether the store has any right to...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).