FC: Petswarehouse.com sues aquatic plant list members for $15 million

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

The mailing list messages that led to the lawsuit, according to the 
complaint at (http://216.168.47.67/psw/Complaint.htm):

>"Thinking of buying plants from Pet Warehouse? Don't. What is crappy is 
>their service! And they're maybe even A bit dishonest."
>"But you don't have to take my word as the last word on their horrible 
>service. Feeling lucky? Go ahead - try them out yourselves. After all, 
>it's only your time and money, right?" (Defendant Dan Resler-May 18, 2001)
>"Remember petSWEARhouse, buy their plants and you'll be swearing!" (May 
>22, 2001)

Those messages were enough to prompt Petswarehouse.com to demand, according 
to the complaint:
>  Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) in compensatory damages, and Five 
> Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) in punitive damages

Be warned: Dare to criticize Petswarehouse.com and you could be facing $15 
million in damages.

-Declan

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:57:33 -0400
Subject: PetsWarehouse.com $15M lawsuit against mailing list
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Hi Declan,

Thought you'd be interested in this. It was forwarded to me by a friend who
was a member of the Aquatic Plants Digest mailing list (he is not named in
the suit). I haven't read the full complaint, but as I understand it Mr.
Novak is suing the admin and several individual members that mailing list
for posting complaints about his business.

   http://216.168.47.67/psw/Default.html



best

pb


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