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Alice and Willem Meiners filed suit against Sinthyia Darkness, Thomas Meyers, and Philip Dolan in Maryland District Court on July 20, 2011, for libel.
I looked the complaint up on PACER. It alleges "a conspiracy" between Dolan, Darkness, and Meyers, because they allegedly:
All these posts appear to be by Darkness alone, by the way. The lawsuit seems to be including Dolan and Meyers solely because they contributed to other articles on her website. From what I can tell from a quick survey, Meyers contributed to her series of general articles about PA, and she, Meyers, and Dolan co-authored a series of articles about the Bellamora skin care company.
The complaint was filed by Victor Cretella. The plaintiffs are demanding $2 million in compensatory and punitive damages, and a jury trial.
- Victoria
I looked the complaint up on PACER. It alleges "a conspiracy" between Dolan, Darkness, and Meyers, because they allegedly:
Specifically mentioned are Darkness's blog post questioning the funding of Meiners's HELP foundation, her post alleging questionable helicopter piloting by Alice Meiners, her post questioning the tax deductability of donations to HELP, her post alleging (among other things) tax cheating by PA, and her post alleging "possible tax fraud" by Meiners.periodically posted defamatory attacks about PA on Ms. Darkness’ website at http://sinthyiadarkness.blogspot.com in an ongoing series called the “PublishAmerica Investigative Report”. In some of these posts, they made disparaging statements about Willem Meiners, his wife, Alice Meiners, and “HELP”. Mr. Dolan aided, abetted and encouraged these defamatory statements as part of the conspiracy.
All these posts appear to be by Darkness alone, by the way. The lawsuit seems to be including Dolan and Meyers solely because they contributed to other articles on her website. From what I can tell from a quick survey, Meyers contributed to her series of general articles about PA, and she, Meyers, and Dolan co-authored a series of articles about the Bellamora skin care company.
The complaint was filed by Victor Cretella. The plaintiffs are demanding $2 million in compensatory and punitive damages, and a jury trial.
- Victoria