Trade Libel

In August 2007, 2Clix Australia sued Simon Wright, the founder of Australian broadband discussion forum Whirlpool, for alleged "injurious falsehood." According to 2Clix, Wright permitted anonymous users of the forum to post unmediated comments, and two threads contained "false and malicious" comments about 2Clix and its softward products. According to...  read more »

In January 2004, Whitney Information Network, Inc., a company that provides real estate training programs and seminars, and its CEO Russ Whitney sued Xcentric Ventures, LLC and its founder and managing member, Ed Magedson. Xcentric operates the Ripoff Report website, located at www.ripoffreport.com and ...  read more »

In November 2007, Ayman Difrawi (a.k.a. Alec Difrawi), an Internet marketing consultant, and Internet Solutions Corporation sued Les Henderson, Daniel Bruce Scalf, Jeremy Scalf, Conrad Longmore, and a number of anonymous defendants for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and other torts. The plaintiffs subsequently amended the complaint, dropping Longmore...  read more »

In May 200, Explorologist Limited, a company incorporated in the United Kingdown by paranormalist Uri Geller, brought a lawsuit against Brian Sapient, a member of the Rational Response Squad. The dispute revolved around two videos posted by Sapient on YouTube. One video was a clip from a NOVA...  read more »

In October 2005, Eagle Broadband, Inc. brought a John Doe lawsuit for defamation, trade libel, and unfair competition under California law after anonymous users posted critical statements about it on a Yahoo! Finance message board. Shortly thereafter, the court granted Eagle leave to take discovery from Yahoo!...  read more »

Global Telemedia International (GTMI), a publicly traded telecommunications company, sued a number of anonymous users who posted negative comments about the firm and its officers on the financial message board Raging Bull, alleging that the posts constituted ...  read more »

William A. Sheehan sued a number of credit reporting agencies, including Experian, in federal court in Washington, alleging violations of the...  read more »

On November 1, 2007, Internet Solutions, a company that runs a number of employment recruiting and Internet advertising businesses, including VeriResume, sued blogger Tabatha Marshall in ...  read more »

Justin Leonard runs the websites infomercialratings.com and infomercialscams.com. These websites give consumers the opportunity to voice their criticisms and defenses of various products and services. Pages on these websites are devoted to criticisms and defenses of Video Professor, Inc., a Colorado company that develops...  read more »

Justin Leonard runs the websites infomercialratings.com and infomercialscams.com. These websites give users of infomerical products the opportunity to voice their criticisms and defenses of these products and associated sales tactics. Pages on these websites are devoted to criticisms and defenses of Video Professor, Inc.,...  read more »