I'm not sure what happened to the other 'named' defendants, obviously it sounds like they tried to track down Mowerman but he wasn't named as one of the 5. Neither was CP's own Loob who was originally named.
As for the rumours themselves. Rumours in general spread like that. Certain rumours, especially when someone is traded unexpectedly or fired like that, seem to make gossip spreading pretty easy. I'm going to be very vague considering the topic but I'm sure 99% of hockey fans have heard unsavory rumours about one hockey player or another at one point in time, some of the stories just seem to stick better. And of course it's always from people who heard it from a friend who works at Orange Julius who heard it from his brother who works at concession at the Dome with a guy who's overheard management talking about it with "someone in the know."
In this particular case, it may be that the defendants went on different websites and copy-paste the defamation article.
Last edited by Oling_Roachinen; 09-21-2013 at 04:58 AM.
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