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August 31, 2006

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Foxconn reduces damages in defamation suit. Like, a lot.

Posted Aug. 31, ’06, 9:12 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Legal

1 yuanWill we ever know if Steve Jobs leant a helping hand on Foxconn’s defamation suit? Probably not until the extensive biography comes out in fifty years. Still, it’s good to see that the Hongfujin unit of the company decided not only to ask the court to unfreeze the assets of the two journalists it accused of defamation, but also reduced the damages.

The original suit had called for a 30 million yuan settlement (approximately $3.7 million), but today came news that that number had been slashed to 1 yuan. That’s not a typo. For those of you counting at home, that’s about 12 cents. Hongfujin has not dropped the suit, though, saying that it reduced the damages to “avoid blurring the issue because of the great public attention on the target of the injunction.” In addition, the publisher of the piece, China Business News, has been added as a defendant in the case.

Though there was no response from Steve Jobs, who had been petitioned by Reporters Without Borders, an Apple spokesperson confirmed yesterday that Apple was working “behind the scenes” to help resolve the dispute.


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