Virginia Woman Is Sued For $750,000 After Writing Scathing Yelp Review 424
First time accepted submitter VegetativeState writes "Jane Perez hired a construction company and was not happy with the work they did and alleged some of her jewelry was stolen. She submitted reviews on Yelp and Angie's List, giving the company all F's. The contractor is now suing her for $750,000. From the article: 'Dietz, the owner of Dietz Development, filed the Internet defamation lawsuit filed last month, stating that "plaintiffs have been harmed by these statements, including lost work opportunities, insult, mental suffering, being placed in fear, anxiety, and harm to their reputations."
Perez's Yelp review accused the company of damaging her home, charging her for work that wasn't done and of losing jewelry. The lawsuit follows an earlier case against Perez, which was filed in July 2011 by Dietz for unpaid invoices. According to the recent filing, the two were high school classmates.'"
Re:Virgin (Score:2, Funny)
Who would have thunk it? On US citizen suing another. Oh the shock of it all!
Re:Ok .. bad work, damage, theft (Score:5, Funny)
So WTF is this doing on /. anyway? This just seems like it is here because it's a typical lawsuit but a computer is involved
Hey, it's enough of a difference to make it patentable. :)
Awkward (Score:4, Funny)
That's going to make for an awkward High School reunion.
Re:Shrug (Score:5, Funny)
Fortunately some of our laws were made during the brief time when the government was run by the people.
When was that? Or do you mean run by the people who were white male landowners who didn't pick the losing side in a recent war?
Yep, those are the ones I mean.
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Re:Shrug (Score:5, Funny)
True, you can do that with pretty much every great historical figure. See:
Churchill - racist.
Thomas Jefferson - racist.
Hitler - so-so painter.
Re:Shrug (Score:5, Funny)
Hitler - so-so painter.
...and vegetarian.
Re:Shrug (Score:5, Funny)
Best Godwin Evar!