{"id":35,"date":"2000-08-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laaker.com\/cms\/?p=35"},"modified":"2005-12-03T23:47:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T23:47:23","slug":"mr-laaker-engages-in-major-legal-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/press-releases\/2000\/mr-laaker-engages-in-major-legal-debacle","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Laaker Engages in Major Legal Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"prbodycopy\">(New York City) &#8211; After another well-received <a href=\"pr_2000_07_31.php\">press release<\/a> hit the streets, Micah Laaker was presented with yet a fourteenth &quot;cease-and-desist&quot; legal notice on Tuesday, August 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Mr. Laaker, having successfully called out Alex Meyer in a previous release, received a notice from the said Mr. Meyer. Soaked in tearstains, the note was conspicuous for its lack of capital letters, massive self-promotion <i>and<\/i> misspellings (Note the first sentence.). Mr. Laaker, knowing justice has long served as his faithful ward, released the notice (below) for all to peruse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<tt>7.31.00 10:02am<\/tt><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<tt>from the legal council for alexander eben meyer, president and ceo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eben.com\/\">eben.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Laaker,<\/tt><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<tt>Ny client is deeply offended by the personal attack suffered at the hands of the staff at <a href=\"https:\/\/laaker.com\/\" rel=\"self\">laaker.com<\/a>. At no time did mr. meyer ever make said comments promoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eben.com\/\" rel=\"friend\">eben.com<\/a> (aol keyword = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/index.html?eben\">eben<\/a>) nor would he ever. Alexander Eben Meyer as well as his site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eben.com\/\">eben.com<\/a> (nasdaq symbol = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicken.aol.com\/investments\/quotes\/?symbol=ebn\">ebn<\/a>) are supporters of the community as well as staunch supporters of freedom of speech, yet at no time would abuse these angles with the intent of politicing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eben.com\/\">eben.com<\/a>. With the exception of being incredibly boring, mr. meyer had previously had no complaints with the operation of <a href=\"https:\/\/laaker.com\/\">laaker.com<\/a>, however, if Mr. Laaker and his cohorts continue with this escapade that only brings pain and sadness to Mr. Meyer and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eben.com\/\">eben.com<\/a>, we will be forced to take legal action.<\/tt><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<tt><a href=\"mailto:legal@eben.com\">legal@eben.com<\/a><\/tt><tt><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/tt><tt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eben.com\/\">www.eben.com<\/a><\/tt><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" \/><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"prbodycopy\">Mr. Laaker and Mr. Meyer have since begun discussions to end the legal rigamorole and handle the matter &quot;like gentlemen.&quot; Apparently, this matter was actually handled via a rubberband fight in which Mr. Laaker walked away with a welt between his eyes; Mr. Meyer walked away with an apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York City) &#8211; After another well-received press release hit the streets, Micah Laaker was presented with yet a fourteenth &quot;cease-and-desist&quot; legal notice on Tuesday, August 1. Mr. Laaker, having successfully called out Alex Meyer in a previous release, received a notice from the said Mr. Meyer. Soaked in tearstains, the note was conspicuous for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}