Orin G. Briggs
Attorney at Law
January 16, 2003

Ms. Ginger Warbus
Host: Fornits.com
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Re:	Warning About Publication of Slanderous Material on Internet 
Dear Ms Warbus:
My client, Carolina Springs Academy, in South Carolina, has given me examples of the kinds of slanderous material that has been posted on your Internet site about my client and other quality residential children’s programs sponsored by the World Association of Special Programs organization.

I am writing first to ask you to remove such defamatory attacks that have been posted on your site by Fornits Forum. Second, I am giving you the chance to remove the element of intent from the use of this defamatory information. Carolina Springs Academy is fully licensed by the State of South Carolina, fully accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and for years has been a valuable resource for hundreds of parents in need of a specialty boarding school. Third, this letter will serve as a warning that necessary legal action will follow, if the request and warnings are not complied with by Feb. 1, 2004. In most states, and particularly here in South Carolina, such organizations and the named individuals have well-established rights that protect them against the dissemination of such slanderous and otherwise harmful false information.

Some of these rights include protection against common law slander (prohibiting the publication of defamatory information about legitimate educational organizations) and the civil laws that prohibit tortious (intentional) interference with the right of contract, providing strict rules about false publication of ideas aimed at denying the right of such organizations to conduct their licensed business without harassment or illegal interference. Individuals who are slandered also have the right to file a tort claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress where the slander is particularly egregious and results in specific lost of wages and the need for emotional healing with services from a certified counselor.

Also, in South Carolina, the very strict and severe laws that prohibit Unfair Trade Practices, even by free speech endeavors and other protective groups protect my client. The South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act, Section 39-5-10, et seq., regulates and establishes penalties for unfair or deceptive actions adversely interfering with such businesses and affecting the public interest which wrongly interfere with legitimate public meetings and the business opportunities of organizations like Carolina Springs Academy. The penalties under this law include treble damages and the award of attorney fees to successful plaintiffs.

I trust that you and your organization will be more careful in the future about the nature and content of derogatory criticism of legitimate welfare types institutions. These institutions are serving the community and the parents of pre-delinquent children who often are required to attend a highly- structured educational program simply because they have previously Failed to succeed at home, in their communities, at church, and within the public school system. We consider this letter as a good faith effort to avoid costly litigation and move to an amicable resolution of the wrongs committed against my client. I appreciate your attention to this matter.