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I wish Elie wrote this post.

"So, readers, what do you think? Did the AutoAdmit kids get pwned by Iravani and Heller? Or was the Yale ladies’ lawsuit an epic fail?"

How would we know without the terms of the settlement?

Anyway, the firm did something right by ID'ing "eight or nine" of the people. That's no easy task.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TZg3F678xk

4--yes, it is an easy task. Happens all the time. You sue the ISP. The ISP notifies the poster of the subpoena, and then the poster has the choice of showing up in court to defend him- or herself. When she shows up and says, "Kashmir Hill, defending myself," she's just been identified. If she doesn't show up, the ISP turns over the information.

Is there any doubt that this is how Elie is planning to finance his children's education? You'll all be sorry some day. And you'll know that finally he has put his Harvard education to productive use.

I would've liked to have seen a public outing. Anonymously badmouthing real non-anonymous people is despicable.

By the way, Elie . . . you're kinda chubby.

-anonymous and inconsistent poster

6, no, it's not. Most ISPs only keep information like that for 90 days.

Why is there no mention of the fact that Keker, Rosen, and Irvani are being sued by one of the former defendants in this suit?

anonymous badmouthing of people is the only way people can do it these days because everything is so PC. cyberslapp should be done away with and is an abuse of system

Nice simpsons reference 'Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey.' I'm also partial to 'Sandal Wearing Goldfish Tenders'.

It was public relations pwnage, which is all the plaintiffs really wanted. So, EPIC WIN.

Considering Keker likely took the case to establish some sort of groundbreaking internet precedent, for them it's an epic fail.

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If I abuse myself while thinking about Kash, does that count as abusing Kash?

4 - I would assume small settlements (maybe a few thousand bucks each) from the eight or nine defendants.

But it is still a victory for the plaintiffs because they got free legal representation.

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What about the other countersuit with what's his name (the EIC of Autoadmit)? Is that case still going on? How can you talk about this case without doing a little research on that case's status to include in this post?

I expect this from Elie, but not you Lat. I literally had to just scroll up to see because I was about to blast Elie.

11 - That isn't Lat's reference. It was one of the screen names of the defendant's in this case.

6 - AutoAdmit claimed not to log IP addresses of posters., which made identification a non-trivial task. If true, it's actually quite remarkable that they found anyone.

9 / 17 - ATL wrote about that case here:

http://abovethelaw.com/2008/03/breaking_anthony_ciolli_goes_o.php

I don't think there are any new developments in it, though.

I miss Elie. Where'd she go???

KashI0bs+#r

Picture of :D, one of the autoadmit posters who had to settle:
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/400/45137997.jpg

What this crap have to do with law anyway? This brog nothing but a crap now. Too gay. Too stupid. David, you need come home this weekend, meet nice Filipino girl through matchmaker, I introduce you, ok? Then maybe your head get un-gayed, not so crazy no more. I make you your favorite rice cake soup too, just for you, then maybe you have energy, brog better.
- Mom

I hope they got nothing.

Whatever they got, they'll probably put towards fighting genocide in Darfur, so they'll get nothing in the end.

I can't believe that I went to high school with one of the plaintiffs...

Surreal.

I feel dirty for laughing at Mrs. Lat

when does 23 get banned?

I love Mrs. Lat. If I were her, I would have disowned her cockgobbling son long time ago.

I must come clean on this, my son JaKe was one of the alleged offenders in this case. Once he was exposed, we did settle. If I had the time I would have gleefully fought this to the supreme court, but as it was, I found the settlement money in my couch the morning of signing the settlement, and therefore it was of not import to me.

When you consider that the first people to be outted were the plaintiffs, further exposing them to public attacks, and that the poor handling of the suit and settlement negotiations with Ciolli resulted in a countersuit, it's tough to see them as the "winners" here.

Well at least we know that Lat reads autoadmit by his usage of epic fail and other tells. I wonder what name he posts under? Could Lat be whokebe?!?!?!

"Partner Emeirtus"

FAIL!!!

Seems to me that Auto-Admit leaves on spirit here at ATL when you have know-nothings (i.e., paralegals) blogging posts filled with comments about "TTT"s... not much of a change in my mind. Dressed up a bit nicer, but largely the same trash.

leaves, lives, same diff

33 epic fail is from a place called the internet, not autoadmit

Who will ever forget the name Brittain Heller?

37 - "epic fail" is from a place called middle school or online Dungeon & Dragons.

Why does Mrs. Lat look Vietnamese if her son is Filipino? Discuss.

38 - you, apparently, since you've misspelled it

@9:

That case has been dismissed w.r.t. Heller, because Ciolli and his aTTTorney were too lame to find her and serve the complaint. And several counts have been dismissed against other defendants as well.

Ciolli is getting pwned like the douche he is in E.D.Pa.

Here's the status of the E.D.Pa. case:

Case dismissed against Heller, because Ciolli can't find her, even though Conde-Nast Portfolio, the New York Times, and Hartford Courant could.

Case dismissed against Lemley and Chanin for lack of PJ.

Most counts dismissed against Iravani and Reputation Defender for lack of PJ.

Motions for judgment on the pleadings are pending with a legitimate chance of success.

IOW, Ciolli = FAIL.

32 ftw

damn you, 23! you're a sick bastard.

They definitely had STDs

Sorry about your tiny pink settlement, bro.

Epic win or Epic fail, I just can't feel a lot of sympathy for the plaintiffs in this situation, now that they both have impressive careers here and do not seem to have been harmed by all the postings on autoadmit.

While I do agree that it was wrong for the defendants to threaten and defame the plaintiffs on the website, if the plaintiffs were so concerned about their safety and privacy, they should have filed police reports and tried to have criminal charges pursued against the defendants. Instead, they filed a civil suit that was nothing more than an attempt to make a name for themselves and their attorneys and maybe get a little money. The attorneys that took their case are no better than the typical ambulance chasers that try to make cases out of nothing in an attempt to shake down people and companies they know will pay to settle quickly.