L. Joe Davis Suddenly Decides Avvo Didn’t Defame Him After All
Someone get me a neck brace because, sadly, L. Joe David is swerving all over the legal road. For those who just joined, L. Joe (not to be confused with J. Lo) sued us a couple of weeks ago alleging we defamed him. Even though he had twice been found guilty of willfully refusing to pay court-ordered child support, failing to appear for his court dates and willfully obstructing the Florida Bar’s disciplinary process, L. Joe still felt our Avvo Rating of 3.7 “Caution” was not warranted. As confusing as that may sound, wait: it gets better.
Only weeks after filing his original complaint, Larry Joe is suddenly feeling that maybe Avvo isn’t defaming him, but rather we are now invading his privacy and violating the Florida adverting rules. And, possibly best of all, L. Joe is still complaining about things like Avvo getting his address wrong. I wonder if he has ever sued because Burger King forgot to hold the lettuce.
You can read L. Joe’s latest legal masterpiece here.
p.s. You can read Avvo’s press release here.
September 20th, 2010 at 6:45 am
your link to the .pdf, causes my IE8 to automatically close…ie the link has some issues I think?
:-)
Jim
September 20th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I found another link to Larry Joe Davis’ latest and the previous complaint that he is retracting or modifying. He may have to sue himself soon for doing a bang-up job of defaming himself with his poorly researched/written complaints.
And why would he wish to draw attention to the fact that he was sanctioned by the Florida Bar and twice convicted of failing to pay child support? Now his name is linked online with his checkered past.
September 21st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
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