A California lawyer who has waged an ongoing battle with Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) over personal attacks made against him on Yahoo message boards has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the company. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday by associates of corporate attorney Stephen Galton, claims Yahoo has unfairly protected people who post negative messages on its bulletin boards and falsely advertised that it prevents such abusive messages.
"It wouldn't be prudent for us to comment on this pending lawsuit," Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said in a statement. Galton is a partner in the firm of Galton & Helm, which specializes in insurance law. He registered to use Yahoo message boards in early 2004 in order to respond to a negative late-2003 post about one of his clients, which he did not identify in the suit. After Galton posted his response, under the screen name "stephengalton," he was subjected to name-calling by various other users of the message boards.
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"It wouldn't be prudent for us to comment on this pending lawsuit," Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said in a statement. Galton is a partner in the firm of Galton & Helm, which specializes in insurance law. He registered to use Yahoo message boards in early 2004 in order to respond to a negative late-2003 post about one of his clients, which he did not identify in the suit. After Galton posted his response, under the screen name "stephengalton," he was subjected to name-calling by various other users of the message boards.
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He'd be a dimwit not to expect to get flamed because of his comments. Everyone has different opinions and not only that, everyone is entitled to their opinions. This lawsuit is just a way to tell readers to STFU if you don't like their personal opinions and not only that, make people afraid to post anything for fear of being sued.
But this isn't the first case of it's kind, this has happened before. One company sued a customer for posting negative comments because of the shoddy customer service. The owner of the company claimed his posts damaged the reputation of the company. The Judge ruled that the customer had the right to his opinion and threw out the case.
kidding.
he's gonna sue because he can't take any personal attacks? he must have gotten beaten up alot when he was a little kid... now he thinks he's getting back at all the bullies who stole his lunch money by sueing these people
And sueing Yahoo just because someone used their service to call him names is nonsense. Its like me walking down the street, and somebody shouts some abuse at me. Now I can sue the operators of the pavement (sidewalk) for not protecting me from that abuse?
The judge will throw this out of court and I hope this guy gets landed with big legal costs.
This guy needs to get some thicker skin.
That's plain pathetic...
pwned
Chill guys maybe he'll read these posts and neowin will be sued
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