Dozier Internet Law, PC: Give us seven million dollars. Stop laughing.
by tdaxp ~ October 30th, 2007
Dozier Internet Law, PC, those legal beagles in charge of the Cuppy’s Coffee and DirectBuy catastrophes, didn’t start there.
Thanks to dEarth / dx, I learned about their attempt to get seven million dollars from a website for criticizing “Manchester Who’s Who.”
From the article that inspired the lawsuit:
She asked, “Will you be using your membership for networking or credibility?”
I explained that I would probably be using it for both. “Being I high school drop-out, I have always had to struggle with public opinion on my credibility…”
$7,000,000. Hahaha. That’s even better that “Bull,” “Cyber Lawyer,” or “Super Lawyer.”
God bless you, John “$7,000,000″ Dozier. You bring the smile to the face of everyone you threaten.
The New York Times uses top 1% of income, not wealth. From the legend:...
October 31st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Manchester Who's Who is a scam that belongs in the same potato sack with poetry.com and PublishAmerica — they tell people they've accomplished something when they haven't, and then try to get them to buy an overpriced not-in-bookstores book with their names in it. It's just as difficult to get your name in the phone book.
Y'know, I don't know much about copyright and libel laws, but I'm fairly sure our system doesn't support attempts to extort $7,000,000 from people who criticize obvious scams.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Other attorneys keep trying similar strategic lawsuits against public participation, but as reported in Slashdot [1] not only did a blogger just win such a case… but the court sanctioned the plaintiff's attorney for poor conduct [2]!
Dozier, both the firm and the individual attorneys who work there, should be on notice.
[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/1624239&from=rss
[2] http://fixyourthinking.com/2007/10/whats-been-going-on-in-last-week.html