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LOS ANGELES, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A California lawyer who has waged an ongoing battle with Yahoo Inc. 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.
One user, a person using the screen name "mumioler" who had posted the original messages about Galton's client that started the dispute, wrote a series of new messages calling Galton a "shyster" and an "overly robust geezer that makes a living walking behind the elephant with a shovel."
Other users also took personal shots at Galton, and he filed suit in April of this year against them. At the same time, he sought their personal information via a subpoena from Yahoo. The company, the suit said, responded with incomplete or inaccurate information.
The suit proposes as a class any California resident who has been targeted by abusive messages on a Yahoo board, who tried to get such messages stopped or learn the identity of the message poster, and who had such requests denied within the last four years. It seeks restitution, a permanent injunction and other forms of relief.
We all better start watching what we say, you never know when some crybaby will sue you for it.
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We all better start watching what we say, you never know when some crybaby will sue you for it.
Yeah, I'll get right on that.
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Why did the person even go to the message boards in the first place (The "name-caller")? Why does the rest of the world need to know about his personal legal business? Anyways... if I could only sue the GameCube fanboys on the G4TECHTV.COM forums for flaming X-Box :P
Luckily, Alla never claims to prevent abuse of his clients 
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...wrote a series of new messages calling Galton a "shyster" and an "overly robust geezer"
ROFL
Those are going to be my new default insults.
wow... those which were flaming them didnt speak in N00bese. I am in awe.
And then people are sue-happy.
I wish I could sue all the people who called me names throughout my life. Sheesh
And then people are sue-happy.
I wish I could sue all the people who called me names throughout my life. Sheesh
...responded with incomplete or inaccurate information.
That might be because 95% of the people don't sign up using accurate info.
That might be because 95% of the people don't sign up using accurate info.
You know, I think someone should hit that 'overly robust geezer' in the face with a shovel.
That'd teach him to sue people for dumb ****. I'd like to see him get fined for that. Or better yet, disbarred. Fat chance, but I'd still love to see it.
That'd teach him to sue people for dumb ****. I'd like to see him get fined for that. Or better yet, disbarred. Fat chance, but I'd still love to see it.
The worst thing is, he's probably one of those lawyers that charges $200/hour, and is a greedy ******* who wants more.
What an idiot. Kill it.
Is anyone really surprised? BTW..if you are not, my lawyer will be calling you shortly =P
Another chapter in the book of why the world is screwed up.
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Another chapter in the book of why the world is screwed up.
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Speaking of that did anyone see the one last night. 'A suckubus!'
OMG are people really this thin skinned now-a-days? I mean has the world gotten so damn Politically Correct that you can't tell some idiot on the web that hes an idiot? Sheez, Maybe if we just assult people in the correct manner they can't take legal actions against us. To be PC, the phrase "overly robust geezer that makes a living walking behind the elephant with a shovel" would have to be translated into --> " a horizontally challenged, senior citizen who makes a living as a sanitational engineer for his client the elephant". The word
"shyster" would translate into "a lawyer Judean decent". See where I'm going with this? Whats a good PC name for this "Piece of Male anatomy"? Lets see what you can come up with....
Maybe someone should send google and email and see if they can put together a PC language translator... LOL.
Edited, Mon Aug 9 09:12:46 2004 by Visagoth
"shyster" would translate into "a lawyer Judean decent". See where I'm going with this? Whats a good PC name for this "Piece of Male anatomy"? Lets see what you can come up with....
Maybe someone should send google and email and see if they can put together a PC language translator... LOL.
Edited, Mon Aug 9 09:12:46 2004 by Visagoth
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At the same time, he sought their personal information via a subpoena from Yahoo. The company, the suit said, responded with incomplete or inaccurate information.
Haha who the hell ever gives real info when signing up for any free online account??
It's a Yahoo thing. That's been around since Yahoo!Chat.
Just don't do it on some huge company who afraid of being sued message board.
Just don't do it on some huge company who afraid of being sued message board.
All I can say is, what a ****.
I knew teasing that John Edwards wannabe piece of whale dung was going to get me in trouble some day...
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