Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues.

Ikari Gendou writes "In April, Slashdot reported that Robert Novak, owner of Internet pet store Pets Warehouse filed a $15,000,000US lawsuit against several individuals who made comments about his company's poor service on an Internet mailing list. Also named in it and in the suit that followed were the owner of the mailing list, the owners of several informational sites about the lawsuit, the owners of other forums where the lawsuit was discussed, the attorney for the defense, and several sites that merely ran banner ads promoting the defense fund set up for the lawsuit. Some defendents settled out of fear, and were forced to pay cash, transfer their personal domain names to Novak, or even run banner ads for Petswarehouse on their websites. Now, the attorney for the defense has announced that in round three of the lawsuit, Google has been sued, as well as several other sites that have carried news about the lawsuit, such as search engine Judge-For-Yourself.com and pet stores DoctorDog.com and FerretStore.com. Robert Novak is representing himself in this lawsuit, and thus it is effectively costing him nothing to persue this campaign of harassment. He's already gotten several thousand dollars from settlements and cost the defendents considerably more than that in legal fees. More details should be posted soon here, including court documents that tell why Google was added to the suit."

Comments

Minor point

[gerardrj]

THe man can't be "defending himself" if he is bringing accusations. He is representing himself is more along the lines of what is happening here.

His site hasn't been slashdotted yet!

[techstar25]

Come on guys let's get with it here.

Re:Lawyers are the scourge of the earth

[tomhudson]

Well, time to go back to school and brush up on your basic math. It's more like 1 lawyer per 100 or so people.

Or, you could become a lawyer - they don't need to know how to add - just have someone else do the billing.

Overrated? ;)

[mekkab]

How can dropping a Fugees quote be overrated?!
3 of 5 and counting...

I'm taking a snapshot of this thread to myself as an excellent example of moderation gone awry.
Not wrong, but awry.

See, this thread is like Flynn talking to BIT, flynn can say all this stuff and has the ful range of human expression, where as bit can only say "YES", or "NO". So in this case I am like flynn: a man trapped in a world he helped create bu cannot understand, raging against its confinement, and the moderations are like bit's "YES" and "NO" And the moderator is like a two bit punk-ass bitch.

See, it all fits.

Re:Overrated? ;)

[Steve Franklin]

I have to agree with the guy. The whole moderation system is based on a bunch of yodels who don't even bother to read the directions. And metamoderating them doesn't seem to do anything but waste my time. Time to go back to reading the stories and ignoring the comments.

Re:Is SlashDot on this list?

[Christianfreak]

It gets even worse too. Now we have sleeze lawyers that come on TV and advertise class action lawsuits, usually it has to do with medical malpractice or bad prescription drugs. Anyway you call up the number and join the suit. And the people wonder why healthcare costs so much in the US.

Re:A Modern Day Morality Tale

[unicron]

Anonymous coward? Half these friggin posts are yours, you hypocrite.

Re:I really hope

[Unknown Poltroon]

Yeah, i know it dosent make much sense, but i get some bizzarre feeling of satisfaction when i metamoderate ALL of them as poor.