I’m not the person to ask, as I’m not a lawyer. But from all the coverage I gather that what Thiel is doing is technically legal. But the scale of it, and deliberately malicious, censoring nature of it might run afoul of. Well, something. It seems like this level of legal trolling is new enough not to have much precedent behind it.
I do know that the lawyer in question risks disbarment if too many of his suits are found to be malicious/spurious. Though its not entirely clear how much of this is his doing, how much of it is Thiel’s, and if he’s the only lawyer Thiel is using. And there are constitutional issues that could be broached, much better then they were during the Hogan case.
Either way it looks like they’re looking into it. The bankruptcy/sale apparently breaks the suits off from Gawker itself. The sites/assets move on. The judgement and standing suits stay with previous ownership or some such.
