Litigation Threat From “Adam Wins”

A couple days ago I received an email from Joel Hirschhorn, a Florida attorney representing Adam Meyer from AdamWins.com.

According to our users' posts Mr. Meyer cold calls the public promoting subscriptions to his winning bets on sporting events, and a number of consumers reported that they lost money when they placed bets as suggested.

The letter demanded that we "withdraw all posts, comments and information regarding Adam Meyer, adamwins.com and the telephone number (954) 472-0141, as well as publish a full and fair retraction, apology and correction in as conspicuous place and type as the original information was published and disseminated."

In my email to Mr. Hirschhorn I explained that 800notes.com is an “interactive website” where the content is supplied by the community, and hence it's not up to us to decide whether the content is defamatory. I then invited him and his client to post rebuttals in the discussion.  In fact, some  rebuttals had already been posted.

Finally I let him know that this is not the first time we have been threatened with litigation, and if he and his client decide to sue the website and its owner, we will fight back and will win.

His response was:  "I presume with your confident attitude you must have graduated at the bottom of your class from a third world law school."

At no point in our correspondence did I say that I am a lawyer. I am just someone who happens to have experience in this area of the law, thanks to this website and Paul Levy from the Public Citizen organization who has been very generous in sharing his knowledge over the years.

Mr. Levy took over from there and contacted Mr. Hirschhorn. You can read about their exchange at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog.

We are now waiting for a substantive response but I doubt there will be any.