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Diamond offers apology for lawsuit against me |
| Coming as a complete surprise to me, a former Quixtar Diamond (group Alliance
Net Solutions) from South Carolinaa who had sued me in 2002 to remove criticism of his
claims about the Quixtar business from the internet has now offered this
apology. I had posted a page rebutting his claims about the Quixtar business
using recordings from his open meeting as the basis for my criticism. The suit had made claims of copyright violations for the open meeting recordings and for text from the Diamond's website. The suit also accused me of posting false and defamatory statements and misrepresentations about the Diamond and their business. They also accused me of violating the Lanham Act and the South Carolina Fair Trade Practices Act, and interfering with contractual relations, both prospective and actual. In my opinion, the main reason for the suit was to remove the criticism and the Diamond's name from the internet search engines, and not to settle any valid legal claim. It is unfortunate that he had resort to abuse of the legal system in order to remove free speech criticism from the Internet, however it is enlightening to see how it finally turned out. After all, this Diamond's suit introduced me to the Federal Courts database Pacer, and Pacer has been a wonderful source for keeping up with all the lawsuits going on in the Quixtar business. Over the years I have found many good cases on Pacer such as the 4Nexchange scam, Nitro v. Quixtar case, and the new class action suit to name just a few. Although his original letter from April 2006 was longer and more detailed, below are the segments that he felt comfortable going public with. Technically I still have a settlement agreement with him where I agreed not to post his name on my site or on the internet. Since I am a man of my word and keep my agreements, I will not use his name here.
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