Legal Opinion

Small Justice LLC v. Xcentric Ventures LLC

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided October 11, 2017No. 15-1506PPublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARRON, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals concern a lawsuit that involves a number of claims arising under, respectively, federal copyright law, state tort law, and Massachusetts’s catch-all consumer protection, statute, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A (“chapter 93A”). The defendant in the suit is Xcen-tric Ventures, LLC (“Xcentric”), which op■erates a website, the RipoffReport.com (“Ripoff Report”). The named plaintiffs are Richard Goren (“Goren”), a Massachusetts attorney; Small Justice LLC (“Small Justice”), a corporate entity that Goren created; and Christian DuPont (“DuPont”). 1 The…

2Cases cited28 opinions

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