Re: [APD] Pets Warehouse is back?

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

What purported news agency described that outfit as an
industry leader?

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--- kevin d <kevin_d789 at hotmail_com> wrote:

> Did anyone else catch this?
> 
> Pets Warehouse Announces Grand Re-Opening After Scoring
> Supreme Court 
> Victory
> 
> Article Editor: Beverly West
> 
> NEW YORK, NY - October 5, 2004 /Send2Press Newswire/ --
> Pets Warehouse 
> (www.PetsWarehouse.com), an industry leader in online pet
> supplies since 
> 1997, today announced that it will re-launch its online
> store in the wake of 
> an Alabama Supreme Court ruling which dismissed the
> frivolous case against 
> Pets Warehouse Principal, Robert Novak.
> 
> The April 2002 case alleged that a chat room post was
> made on CompuServe's 
> Aquaria/Fish Forum chat room, stating, "no lawyer worth
> his salt would do 
> what you are doing, which is why a complaint is pending
> with your state 
> bar." Although Benn could never identify the anonymous
> person making the 
> statement, he falsely accused Novak in a complaint filed
> in Alabama. Novak 
> immediately contested that Court's personal Jurisdiction.
> However, Benn, a 
> private attorney, proceeded pro se before the Court and
> obtained a default 
> judgment against Novak for $50,000. Novak filed an appeal
> in March 2003 and 
> on April 2, 2004 the Appeals Court reversed the Lower
> Court and dismissed 
> all of Benn's claims.
> 
> "I have always been confident that the Appellate Court
> would rule in my 
> favor," said Novak. "The original court showed extreme
> bias in granting Benn 
> most of his outlandish requests. I was railroaded for
> someone else's 
> comments."
> 
> To make matters worse, Benn, rather than waiting for the
> appeal to be 
> resolved, maliciously obtained a post-judgment order of
> execution to obtain 
> the domain name PetsWarehouse.com and Novak's registered
> Trademark "Pets 
> Warehouse®" That order was faxed to Tucows Inc., the
> ICANN registrar, who 
> negligently accepted Benn's document on its face and
> "gave away" the domain 
> PetsWarehouse.com to Benn. This action effectively put
> the Internet 
> operations of PetsWarehouse.com out of business.
> 
> "To add insult to injury," said Novak; "Benn used my
> well-established domain 
> to display a web page replete with false, defamatory and
> disparaging remarks 
> which were discovered by Pets Warehouse's existing and
> prospective 
> customers."
> 
> Pets Warehouse was established in 1974 and began an
> Online pet store in 
> 1997. Shortly thereafter, Pets Warehouse attained
> international recognition, 
> and was named as the fourth most visited pet website in
> the world by NPD 
> Research. The website received 14,000 - ­18,000 unique
> visitors per day 
> prior to its transfer by Tucows.
> 
> Novak will seek legal representation to file suit seeking
> damages against 
> Tucows and John Benn.
> 
>
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