The actress as quoted in a recent interview:
I’ve bought 70 percent of my house off Craigslist! I’ve found so many things: couches, tables, lamps. I love the idea of recycling furniture and there being a history there.
Original CL ad is viewable here. Will go quickly, but would be purchasers note that “Buyer must honor Barry Manilow booking next Thursday”
Trying to ascertain the relative scale of the various relief efforts ongoing in Haiti, with an eye toward directing charitable contributions.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) already has 800 personnel on the ground in Haiti, including many physicians, with 70 more staffers en route.
Oxfam has deployed 100 staff in Haiti thus far.
Care also has 100 in Haiti, with more on way
Red Cross has 15 personnel in Haiti, with 6 more on the way
Trial starts in Delaware today, with eBay claiming craigslist’s directors acted inappropriately in implementing governance measures designed to protect the long term mission and values of craigslist.
The public version of craigslist’s pre-trial brief (PDF) is available, and Alexandria Sage has written a pre-trial “curtain raiser” for Reuters.
Separately, craigslist has filed suit in California charging eBay with unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, business interference, false advertising, phishing attacks, and breaches of fiduciary duty. This suit will proceed after the Delaware trial, but will probably not be presented to the jury until late 2011.
Delaware testimony will encompass eBay’s 2004 purchase of craigslist stock from a former shareholder. craigslist is a private company that does not publish its financial information, and eBay and craigslist both agreed that the terms of this transaction should not be made public. However, these details will now likely be subject of testimony at trial.
As a condition for its 2004 stock purchase from a former shareholder, eBay insisted on acquiring special rights over Craig’s and Jim’s shares (e.g. rights-of-first-refusal over any sale of their shares), and special rights from craigslist (e.g. veto rights over mergers and acquisitions), for which it collectively paid $16 million. This sum was distributed to craigslist’s shareholders, in part because had it not been distributed, eBay would have had a pro rata claim on any portion retained by the company, effectively paying itself for the rights it purchased. eBay’s special rights terminated in 2007, when it launched Kijiji in the US.
Also subject to testimony will be eBay’s misconduct, and abuses by eBay of its position as a shareholder of craigslist - evidence of and suspicions regarding which informed the craigslist board when the corporate governance protections in question were researched, deliberated upon, and ultimately adopted.
For additional information, please refer to craigslist’s pre-trial brief.
Yesterday afternoon craigslist engineering noticed a disproportionate amount of server/bandwidth resources being consumed by requests referred via Yahoo Pipes, with the lion’s share of that activity appearing also to be in violation of CL terms of use. Pipes access has been suspended pending further review.
US District Court Judge John F. Grady has summarily dismissed Sheriff Dart’s suit against craigslist, concluding:
Sheriff Dart may continue to use craigslist’s website to identify and pursue individuals who post allegedly unlawful content. But he cannot sue craigslist for their conduct
Here is the full text of the judge’s ruling
Matt Zimmerman at the EFF has excellent analysis and commentary:
Meritless cases brought by law enforcement officers, amounting to little more than publicity stunts with little to no chance of success, do little to address the officers’ underlying concerns.
Our trial before the Delaware Chancery Court has just been postponed at eBay’s request, but it’s worth noting that the Chancellor has now granted summary judgement dismissing 2 of eBay’s claims.
As to the remaining claims, the evidence at trial will show craigslist and its directors adopted reasonable governance measures to protect craigslist and its mission from, among other things, eBay’s exploitation of its position as stockholder to harm craigslist and obtain unfair commercial advantage.
Here is the public version of craigslist’s trial brief.
The unrelated suit against eBay in California — for unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive passing-off, business interference, false advertising, phishing attacks, free-riding, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and breaches of fiduciary duty — is unaffected.
This offer got picked up by the Early Show among other outlets:
“Got lots of use out of these guys over the past 50 years but it’s time to move on. Excellent overall condition. Still plenty of life left in them.”
Buyer interest is taking off for CL-listed Florida airport:
In addition to 7 hangers and a 2,700-foot grass landing strip, purchaser will gain a mobile home, barn and a zoning permit for the construction of an additional 13 hangers.
