Hitsgalore.com Files $20 Million Lawsuit Against Internet Posters
Business Wire - June 14, 1999 13:39
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1999-- Hitsgalore.com, Inc. (OTC BB:HITT) today
announced that it has filed a Complaint against one identified and five anonymous Internet posters for Libel, Tortious
Interference With Business Relations and Civil Conspiracy in the United States District Court for the Middle District of
Florida. The Complaint, entitled Hitsgalore.com, Inc. v. Janice Shell, et al., Case No. 99-1387-CIV-T-26C, seeks damages
in excess of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00).
The Complaint names Janice Shell, John Doe No. 1 a/k/a "Paul Kersey," John Doe No. 2 a/k/a "Mayor," John Doe No. 3
a/k/a "Mr. Pink," John Doe No. 4 a/k/a "mshater," and John Doe Nos. 5-100 as Defendants (collectively the "Defendants").
The Complaint alleges that, beginning at least as early as May 1999 and continuing through to the present, the Defendants
intentionally and maliciously published and republished a variety of false and defamatory statements about Hitsgalore.com in a
nationwide "cybersmear" campaign on electronic bulletin boards on the Internet maintained by Raging Bull, Inc. ("Raging Bull")
and Silicon Investor, Inc. ("Silicon Investor"). These statements either explicitly state or imply that Hitsgalore has engaged in
illegitimate, illegal, dishonest, fraudulent, and criminal business operations, when, in truth and fact, the Defendants knew or
should have known that such statements were false and libelous per se.
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