This is completely bogus. A) you assume without explanation that that all events can be placed in a series, which is highly suspect since many sets exists for which this is false. For example, what if events occur at every real number time value t for t>0. B) Even if events have 0 or 1 predecessor events that caused them, there is no guarantee that any "first" event exists. Perhaps every event has a predecessor. Consider a chain of events, each causing the next that occur at times 1/2^n.

1500 employees -- so what. As long as they reasonably believe they are speaking the truth I think this is protected by the First Amendment. If the evidence they have indicates he did lie on his expense reports, then they did not humiliate him, he humiliated himself and they just shined the light in. If there was any malice here, it was this employee STEALING money. I'm always amazed by the complete crap that liberal judges come up with.

What really happened here is that Mr Big Vice President was accused of calling a loser a loser. These idiot judges simply can't tolerate the fact that inequality exists in life and so they punish the successful guy and attempt to subsidize the loser. Never mind that he has an absolute right that no legislature or court can take away to speak the truth - to the whole world if he so desires. Liberals must punish success to elevate losers in order to achieve "fairness". This kind of fairness will lead us to shared misery.