NEWS – Courtney Love Faces Lawsuit Over Twitter Comment
Published on May 30, 2011 by Christian Sellers · No Comments
Recently there have been several legal cases relating to comments made via network site Twitter; from two Californian users who took issue that they had received a confirmatory SMS after unsubscribing to their phone serves, to football star Ryan Giggs demanding that details of users be revealed after making defamatory comments. The latest case sees Hole singer Courtney Love facing action after referencing legal actions in her tweets.
According to Reuters; “Gordon & Holmes, a San Diego-based law firm, filed suit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming the firm represented Love from December 2008 to May 2009, but toward the end of the representation, Love allegedly became angry when the firm’s partner Rhonda Holmes asked that Love refrain from “any and all substance abuse” during the attorney-client relationship, according to the suit…
Love allegedly fired the firm, but came back months later asking it to resume representing her. The firm declined, according to the suit, and soon after Love began making allegedly libelous statements on Twitter and elsewhere suggesting the lawyers had taken a bribe… “I was f***ing devastated (sic) when Rhonda J Holmes Esq of San Diego was bought off” Love tweeted… Holmes claims that the statements suggesting she had been bought off or accepted a bribe, coupled with Love’s power as a celebrity, have caused significant damage to her legal career. The attorney is also asking for punitive damages to deter Love from repeating the allegedly defamatory actions.”
