Sunbursts Holding Corporation and Alton Perkins have filed a multi-million dollar defamation suit against William J Verdult and Troy Verdult. The Corporation and Alton Perkins is represented by attorney, Joseph Ledford of Charlotte, NC in the multi-million dollar defamation suit.
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The suit in Charlotte Mecklenburg County, NC alleges and gives 20 specific instances of the Verdults slandering and libeling both the Corporation and Alton Perkins. The suit outlines a case of malicious slander and seeks an injunction, damages, special damages, and punitive damages against the Verdult’s.
The suit outlines how the Verdults voluntarily dismissed an earlier action in the Court in Mecklenburg County, NC and failed to pursue a follow-up remedy. The Verdults were well aware that their statements were false and libelous making the Verdults actions malicious defamation.
The suit further points out how the Verdults engaged in acts of defamation per se which means just making such allegations with no basis – is extreme defamation where harm does not have to be proven, the act alone proves harm.
The law suit outlines how the Verdults repeatedly made false oral and written statements and published theses statements on the Internet alleging criminal conduct and investigations by the FBI when the Verdults were well aware that no such action was taking place. The suit further asserts that the Verdults were attempting to harm the Corporation and Perkins at all cost using defamation over the Internet to achieve an objective which the Verdult’s were unable to achieve in a Court of law.
The suit shows how the Verdult’s were both malicious and negligent in each of the twenty instances of defamation, “the Defendants grossly failed to follow the most rudimentary elements of good journalistic practices and did not meet minimally acceptable standards to avoid being negligent.”
The suit shows how the Verdults even made false statements to other government agencies in California causing them to take unnecessary and damaging action against the Corporation and Perkins. Now the Plaintiffs have to spend unnecessary time and resources to correct the wrongs done by false statements.
The suit points out because of the Defendants (Verdults) egregious and malicious actions and the medium they have chosen, the Internet; they should be immediately enjoined from publishing further libel and slander and that damages, special damages, and punitive damages be awarded to the Corporation and Perkins in excess of $1.5 million.
The suit illustrates how Internet defamation is different than traditional written forms of defamation since online defamation, or “cyber libel”, is often taken at face value, and is capable of instantly reaching an unlimited number of persons around the globe.
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