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Local girl cyber attacking my 20 year old daughter and has now begun to include me by stealing my images taken of me and by me and posting them on her Instagram page with nasty remarks and possibly dangerous details such as my home address as well as my daughter's. I NEED this to stop.... View More 
answered on Jul 14, 2017
You can contact instagram to ask them to take it down. You may be able to sue for defamation and privacy violations, depending on the facts. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney such as myself.... View More
Im a dog walker in Manhattan. Experienced and tax paying LLC. An old nasty man who is a resident of one of the buildings I service once lied to building management to get me kicked out so I cant walk dogs in that building. He claims I pushed him outside nearby. I didn't, he didn't... View More
answered on Jul 12, 2017
See my prior reply. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney such as myself. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/ publications on my law... View More
For example; "you're suing me for stealing money but Bob has been stealing from you for years!"
answered on Jul 12, 2017
That sounds irrelevant. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney such as myself. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/ publications on my... View More
A resident in a NYC Manhattan building i walk dogs for doesn't like me. He follows me sometimes and recently interfered in an argument i had with a mail carrier who ran his mail cart over a tiny dog's paw. He thretened to make a false claim to the police just to get me in trouble. He... View More
answered on Jul 11, 2017
Unfortunately approximately 1 of every 25 or 4 out of 100 people in the U.S. is sociopathic or suffers with what is called a complex personality disorder. This person could be one.
If they are stay away or apply for a protective order if you have a reasonable safety fear or issue. The... View More
answered on Jun 25, 2017
Are the statements facts or falsehoods? If they're false, you might sue for defamation if you can prove damages. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney. You can read more about me, my... View More
I live in a very small town in western NY. A few years ago a local bank I was using, or one of its employees, shared my personal account activities with a private citizen or perhaps my employer at the time(wired transactions to another state I was moving to). An individual, who owns a business and... View More
answered on Jun 4, 2017
Banks are fiduciaries. That means that your interests should be above their own. They do not or should not share any private information with anyone unless by court order or with your consent. Sometimes customers make bank's employees their trustees (giving them more discretion) to invest... View More
My son looks different than the other kids in his school and because he once wore a trench coat to school, the kids started rumours he is a school shooter and now it has gotten out of control with the police being called and parents taking kids out of school because they heard that my son will... View More
answered on May 22, 2017
You can complain to the school about the bullying. You can report threats against a minor to the police, and you may be able to sue for defamation and threats of violence. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation... View More
My employer started verbally abusing me and then proceeded to threaten me by telling me one of us will have to die tonight. On my attempt to calm her down she then started hitting me with her bare hands, mainly on my face and head and started grabbing any item on her left as a weapon. When i held... View More
answered on May 10, 2017
I am sorry to hear about your situation. What you described is a crime. You should call the police. What are your plans for work going forward? How large is your office? Is there a HR department?
My ex employee seems to be of the impression I want to replicate his software and has sent me a letter from his lawyers stating that I stole his code rather than the truth which is that it was always on my personal laptop from the beginning of my contract due to my ex employer not providing me a... View More
answered on May 8, 2017
Anyone can be accused of anything.
I think you mean can you be sued for damages for theft of intellectual property. Maybe.
Who owns the software and who is licensed to use it? Just because it is loaded on your personal computer does not mean that you have a license to use it. Did... View More
answered on May 3, 2017
A statute insulates social media from such suits. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/... View More
I'm looking to create prints that have quotes from popular figures and selling them online. I'm not looking at using trademarked names, movie quotes, or song quotes. Though those might occasionally show up in the quotes themselves.
answered on Apr 30, 2017
It sounds like you're contemplating committing copyright infringement, unless you specifically license the right to use such content from the author.
See: http://www.aeesq.com/business-law/intellectual-property-attorney/
More details are necessary to provide a professional... View More
I had a news reporter barge into our office (private property) for a news segment. She did not inform me she was filming me. Or ask for permission. She didn't even make an appointment to meet with us. As the office manager, I was the one who had to speak to her and informed her that I'm... View More
answered on Apr 29, 2017
That sounds like trespassing and infringement of your privacy rights, assuming you told her to get out, stop filming, and didn't authorize the publication. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an... View More
I live in an apartment building and a lawyer taped lawsuit papers to the glass door downstairs not my personal door. It wasn't in an envelope so everyone in the building was able to see my business and information of the lawsuit. Is this legal? Is this slander? What if this ruins my reputation?
answered on Apr 27, 2017
Legal filings are public documents. If the documents posted contained sealed information, that would be different. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney. You can read more about me, my... View More
Hello, I am being harassed by a college professor who would make short-off hand side marks about me in class (and one time threaten to beat me up after class while I was clarifying homework with her). She does this infrequently enough that I can't record her or catch her. I feel like I can... View More
answered on Apr 25, 2017
You can file a grievance with the school against the teacher.
See: http://www.aeesq.com/education-lawyer/bullying-school-injuries-civil-lawsuits/
More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an... View More
answered on Apr 21, 2017
It's slander if they're saying false things about you to others. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and... View More
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answered on Mar 21, 2017
YES, so long as this happened fairly recently in the past, which it did, and there are difference statutes of limitations for many of the torts (civil crimes basically) she committed against you. For example, assault and/or battery must be brought within ONE year, while you have THREE years to... View More
answered on Mar 18, 2017
You can search this site for defamation lawyers. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/... View More
answered on Mar 11, 2017
Potentially yes, you can sue for defamation of character. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/... View More
Loyal husband/father who made very good living while wife stayed home and cheated with neighbor for 5 years. Kids all hurt and shocked, he has family too
answered on Mar 8, 2017
The risk in the divorce action is that it would make you look bad before a judge and it could possibly harm your chance of primary physical custody if that's what you want. But you should also consider talking to an attorney versed in libel/slander law.
My company received two cease & desist letters claiming trademark infringement of their client's materials. Both claims were dropped after it was argued the material did not infringe, and no action was taken. Nevertheless, the law firm subsequently made a claim in a marketing flyer that it... View More
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