Legal Opinion
E. Coast Test Prep LLC v. Allnurses.com, Inc.
District Court, D. Maine
Decided January 29, 2018No. Civil No. 15–3705 (JRT/SER)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJohn R. Tunheim, Chief Judge
This sprawling case is about defamation: a test prep company has sued a nursing discussion forum and five of its users for their mildly disparaging remarks about the company's offerings. Plaintiffs are East Coast Test Prep LLC, doing business as Achieve Test Prep, and its president Mark Olynyk (collectively, "ATP"). Defendants are Allnurses.com and David Smits (administrator of the estate of company founder Brian Short) (collectively, "Allnurses") and users Lisa Dukes and Uhura Russ.
ATP claims that "Allnurses secretly schemed to have false statements posted about ATP, using ATP's trademark,…
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