Our Wonderful Legal System

[Tuna Beware]

Here is the situation, we had a customer come in a while back and got some work done for his business, he was very picky but very satisfied with the work. He brought some more stuff in over Christmas to get done and wanted to bicker about pricing and got very outrate. He came back the next day and was 10 times worse, yelling and screaming at my wife while other customers were there. I walked in towards the end and told him that we were not going to be able to and not going to do business with someone who is going to act like that. By the way he had been to 3 different embroidery shops and none could get his logo to his specs. We got a summons today and he is sewing us for $15,000 for break of contract, which we dont have any contract with him, we have done a total of about $800 worth of work for him in the past year. We called our Lawyer and he said for the amount he is sewing for, his business being a LLC. a lawyer would have had to file the paperwork and he filed it himself. Our lawyer said that he is just messing with us but we will have to file some kind of form which will cost us about $400 which will be sent to him making him provide information on exactly what he is sewing for and have his attorney contact ours, and he said most likely he would drop the suit. Here is my big thing, if it goes to court we will have to close the store for the day, pay attorney fees and can not counter sew him for our loss of time and money spent doing this. so you can walk in to the court house and file paperwork to sew someone for no reason and waste there time and money, and there is nothing that you can do about it. Sorry about the longpost but this has me pissed off. Think I may call and invite him shark fishing. Got to love our legal system sometimes.

[John Rogers]

Sorry to hear about that. Hope everything works out for you. Some people you just can't make happy and then they do shit like this. Good luck

[gradywhite273]

dude , i feel for you , with us if it ain't lawyers, they are going to the tv stations.

[Hatterized]

been there and have dealt with lawyers....seem they have their own code and feel that they are sometimes above the law.. so they passed the bar exam...well i have hands-on bar experience...gulp gulp....years back one of my employees had a landlord-tenant dispute...and yup the landlord was an attorney....well after city/county/state code violations were established Lawyer finally backed down since he was one step from being considered a slumlord...yup fines galore...i wont mention his name but he practices in Montgomery County Maryland with the rest of his crooked firm... guy owns 11 houses and from what i was able to find....5 were nearly condemned and considered unsafe...rodents/structure defects/etc and was getting $2000 plus a month for these homes... ...a judge sided with my employee...BUT it should of never got to that point...ok...back to the barstool for me.....good luck with your situation hence what comes around goes around...NAIL the SOB for loss of business among of things if possible...damn i have said enough....Over & Out

[ejstenger]

When he came back the second day, I would have had him arrested. He probably is in the business of sueing. What ever happened to the right to deny service to whom you please. Wow! can't believe what this world is coming to.

[Glenn W]

Tuna, sorry to hear about your alleged frivolous lawsuit. Indeed you do have recourse-- that's all I can say.
I see you are in Dogtown (Southside Richmond). If you don't have an attorney, call Steve Issacs, Esq. on Forrest Hill Ave.-- he'll serve you well.

[Tuna Beware]

After the first day we called the courts office and asked them what steps we needed to take to keep him from our store. They told us since we have a retail store open to the public we would have to write a letter stating he was not alowed in the store and have him sign it. We wrote a letter as they told is too incase of any other problems and do you think he signed it? Nope. Then if he refused they would send an officer out next time he came in.

Thanks for the referal Glenn. We have a lawyer retained but we have only used for setting up the corporation so its nice to have a back up just in case.

Adam

[trollman]

So you can walk in to the court house and file paperwork to sew someone for no reason and waste there time and money, and there is nothing that you can do about it.

i have seen this a thousand times, just like Glenn W i am sure. you gotta have faith in the system. do not be afraid to stand up and defend urself against this crap, in the long run the other idiots who would do the same against you or others will be watching and you gotta show them that this chit does not work. tell ur atty to file counterclaims against this jerk and request dismissal along with costs and atty fees for filing this frivolous lawsuit. most states have provisions for compensating those in ur position. if you fight back then the system will weed this case out and you will get compensated for your trouble. good luck.