Legal Opinion
Olivarius v. Mermel
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided April 1, 2018No. 17 Civ. 9941 (JSR)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.
This case is the unfortunate devolution of a dispute between the McAllister Olivarius law firm and its former client Mark Myers Mermel regarding legal fees. In its single-count Complaint, plaintiff McAllister Olivarius alleges that defendant Mermel registered the domain name mcallisterolivariustruth.com in order to divert potential clients and others seeking information about the firm and, having done so, to induce plaintiff to reduce the amount it was seeking from him in unpaid legal fees by threatening to publish allegedly damaging documents about plaintiff on the…
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