wessman
October 4th, 2002, 05:21 PM
This is a perfect example of why the federal and state(s) court system needs to be revamped in a major way. It is too damn easy to sue somebody today. Where is the 1st Amendment in these PetsWarehouse lawsuits? Freedom of speech. A customer is allowed to tell other consumers about a company's poor service or weak products. And mailing lists and private website forums are discussion areas, not news media or corporate competitors, so a customer should be allowed to speak his/her mind. How the hell does Consumer Reports magazine/website get away with rating products? You don't see an automobile manufacturer suing the Insurance Institute for sharing their test ratings (with some cars getting the worst rating) on NBC's Dateline television in front of millions of viewers. This Robert Novak needs to be stopped by a judge.
Hey, Mr. Novak, if your customers say your Pets Warehouse sucks, it must suck, or at least you must be doing something wrong. I certainly won't be buying products from you for my cat, and I would certainly recommend to everybody personally or in a public forum NOT to even visit your store.
Novak's company e-mail is below, so feel free to make use of it, as I'm sure Slashdot readers are already doing, if the infamous "Slashdot effect" hasn't stopped their servers already!!!
Now, what's next? Sue me for my free speaking? Sue Zeropaid and/or Slashdot for posting the same consumer info and comments that Google linked to? What a bunch of dog crap forced on unfortunate individuals buy some loser with an obvious Napolean complex and complete inability to accept responsibility for his failed business actions...
Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/03/1239211
Ikari Gendou writes "In April, [0]Slashdot reported that [1]Robert Novak, owner of Internet pet store [2]Pets Warehouse filed a $15,000,000US lawsuit against several individuals who made [3]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 [4]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 [5]round three of the lawsuit, [6]Google has been sued, as well as several other sites that have carried news about the lawsuit, such as search engine [7]Judge-For-Yourself.com and pet stores [8]DoctorDog.com and [9]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 [10]here, including court documents that tell why Google was added to the suit."
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/04/1459235&tid=153
1. mailto:pet@Petswarehouse.com
2. http://www.petswarehouse.com/
3. http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/month.200105/msg00211.html
4. http://www.thedefensefund.org/
5. http://216.168.47.67/psw/docket4.htm
6. http://google.com/
7. http://judge-for-yourself.com/
8. http://doctordog.com/
9. http://www.ferretstore.com/
10. http://petsforum.com/psw/
Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?q=robert+novak :sw
Hey, Mr. Novak, if your customers say your Pets Warehouse sucks, it must suck, or at least you must be doing something wrong. I certainly won't be buying products from you for my cat, and I would certainly recommend to everybody personally or in a public forum NOT to even visit your store.
Novak's company e-mail is below, so feel free to make use of it, as I'm sure Slashdot readers are already doing, if the infamous "Slashdot effect" hasn't stopped their servers already!!!
Now, what's next? Sue me for my free speaking? Sue Zeropaid and/or Slashdot for posting the same consumer info and comments that Google linked to? What a bunch of dog crap forced on unfortunate individuals buy some loser with an obvious Napolean complex and complete inability to accept responsibility for his failed business actions...
Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/03/1239211
Ikari Gendou writes "In April, [0]Slashdot reported that [1]Robert Novak, owner of Internet pet store [2]Pets Warehouse filed a $15,000,000US lawsuit against several individuals who made [3]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 [4]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 [5]round three of the lawsuit, [6]Google has been sued, as well as several other sites that have carried news about the lawsuit, such as search engine [7]Judge-For-Yourself.com and pet stores [8]DoctorDog.com and [9]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 [10]here, including court documents that tell why Google was added to the suit."
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/04/1459235&tid=153
1. mailto:pet@Petswarehouse.com
2. http://www.petswarehouse.com/
3. http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plants/month.200105/msg00211.html
4. http://www.thedefensefund.org/
5. http://216.168.47.67/psw/docket4.htm
6. http://google.com/
7. http://judge-for-yourself.com/
8. http://doctordog.com/
9. http://www.ferretstore.com/
10. http://petsforum.com/psw/
Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?q=robert+novak :sw