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Re:Mike Lynch cleared in Autonomy fraud trial by throwup238 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:54PM (#40602813)
> Years of legal wrangling followed. HP shareholders sued in 2012. In 2015, HP sued Lynch and Sushovan Hussain, former Autonomy CFO, in the High Court of England and Wales. Lynch responded by filing a $150 million countersuit for defamation.

Now that he's been found not guilty, does that strengthen his defamation claim? Between an extradition and how much his name has been dragged through the mud, that's quite a lot of damage.

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Re:Mike Lynch cleared in Autonomy fraud trial by suid on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:37PM (#40604108)
Depends on where he filed. If he had filed in the US, he would have no chance at all.

In the UK, he has a much stronger chance, but then, in the UK, HP did win a civil lawsuit against him and the CFO, so Lynch can't argue that HP showed a reckless disregard for the truth.

As always, it'll probably come down to some sort of quiet monetary settlement.

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