Video Professor Gets Litigious
Jerry Wilson
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This just in from INFOMERCIALRATINGS.COM
I thought you'd be interested in our latest legal battle.
In a nutshell, Video Professor is trying to sue the posters on our consumer
review sites (infomercialratings.com and infomercialscams.com) for
defamation. A judge has ordered us to hand over the private information of
our customers to Video Professor. We are fighting the order under first
ammendment rights to privacy. A letter has been sent to "the professor's"
attorney with our intent. Listed below is a press release and a denver post
article in refernce to the issue:
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2514
http://www.denverpost.com/allewis
MEDIA CONTACT:
Amanda Long
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-7703
along@citizen.org
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So The Video Professor (the late-night infomerical "Try my product" dude, sued various bloggers and websites that were critical of their products and more importantly business practices.
Its nuts. Its unamerican. It also is apparently a lousy lawsuit.
The nonprofit law firm Public Citizen sent them this letter, and posted on their website. http://www.citizen.org/documents/videoprofletter.pdf
It is killer.
Separately, I saw an article that ran on google news about a law firm going after Video Professor http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071023006473&newsLang=en
I guess they are filing a class action and offered to represent the people VP is going after for free. Check out www.vplitigation.com Pretty interesting.