<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 14, 2019, at 13:53 , Jimmy Hess <<a href="mailto:mysidia@gmail.com" class="">mysidia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:28 PM William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" class="">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote>Ay, very interesting.<br class=""><br class="">I think by "precedent" they must mean -- the publication of this result in<br class="">the news should help deter other bad actors from trying the same shenanigans.<br class="">The result of an arbitration does not set "legal precedent" in the<br class="">sense regarding<br class="">a matter of law -- that only comes from a question going to an<br class="">appellate or other high court.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>IANAL, but I believe you may have missed the implications of this phrase:</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="2" class="">In the first arbitration ever brought under an ARIN Registration Services Agreement, </font></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">and related proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="PT Serif" size="2" class=""> ARIN was able to prove an intricate scheme to fraudulently obtain resources had occurred which included many falsely notarized officer attestations sent to ARIN</font></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>(emphasis mine)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Unfortunately, I don’t have and ARIN (for reasons I don’t pretend to understand) has not published case numbers that I know of.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Likely a PACER search can find them, I haven’t tried that yet.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>