Matt Bartosik writes: When a financial services company read some recent comments on an Internet chat board, their reaction was far from “Yahoo!” Advance Equities, Inc. filed suit on Monday, claiming false defamatory statements were posted on Yahoo’s financial chat board on November 9, 2009. As is the nature of a chat board, the statements…
Category: Court
Confidential Hot Line Apparently Wasn’t
Emmalee Abel reports: A manager says she was fired 3 hours after she complained to a “purportedly anonymous” company Web site about sexist and racist harassment by one of the company’s owners. Michelle Miller says she oversaw operations of all 15 Wireless @ Work offices until she reported co-owner Steve Unversaw’s behavior with women and…
Google is sued by Chinese author Mian Mian
A Beijing judge has told the Chinese novelist Mian Mian, who is suing Google over its plan to create an online library, to hold settlement talks. After a two-hour hearing, the court ordered both sides to talk but did not set a deadline for reporting back, according to the author’s lawyer. She is seeking damages…
NYS seeks to enjoin Great Date Now and Meet Over Drinks
New York State is seeking a fine and an injunction against Great Date Now and its affiliate Meet Over Drinks for allegedly engaging in illegal and fraudulent practices in its social referral business. According to the petition, made available by Courthouse News, Great Date Now engaged in a number of practices that violate NYS law,…