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1 J.B. Lorenzo
2 Lorenzo Law Firm, P.A.
P.O. Box 11253
3 Tallahassee, FL 32302
4 admin@lorenzolawfirm.com
tele. No. 855.757.2757
5 Attorney for Plaintiff Lisa Ostella
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
8 FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA,
SOUTHERN DIVISION
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LISA LIBERI, et al, : Case No. 8:11-cv-00485-AG (AJW)
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Plaintiff, :
12 : SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT
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13 vs. :
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: Honorable Andrew J. Guilford
: Location: Courtroom 10D
15 ORLY TAITZ, et al, : Date filed: May 5, 2009
: Trail Date: None
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Defendants. :: Request for Jury
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The only remaining Plaintiff, Lisa Ostella (Plaintiff), by her counsel, submits
23 PARTIES
24 1. The Plaintiff, is an individual residing in New Jersey.
25 2. The Defendant, Orly Taitz, is a resident of California.
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20 Defendants site, as of May of 2017 (note the date stamp on each). [Exhibit A]
21 BACKGROUND
22 8. The Plaintiff provides web development services, owns a library of
23 domains to offer clients, and provides website hosting for clients.
24 9. The Defendant sought the Plaintiff, on or about September 2008,
25 to work on Defendants drorly.blogspot.com blog.
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7 (doff.us) as a blog for RSS feeds to generate search engine optimization (SEO) to
8 draw traffic to doff.org.
9 12. The doff.us site had a plugin PayPal donate button installed which was
10 controlled by the Defendants email orly.taitz@gmail.com.
11 13. Upon Plaintiffs May 4, 2010 issued subpoenas, it learned that Defendant
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had a preexisting PayPal account using the dr_taitz@yahoo.com email account
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which was receiving donations. [Exhibit C Dkt. #190 Ex. 5, p. 21]
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14. The donations in both accounts through PayPal were to be deposited
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only into the Defendants bank account. [Exhibit C Dkt. #190 Ex. 5, p. 8 and
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at p. 22, ID #4709]
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15. When a donor claimed that the donation was returned, the Defendant
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claimed that the PayPal account to the defendourfreedoms.us blog was hacked by
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outside sources, i.e., ObamaThugs.
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21 16. The Plaintiff informed Defendant of the technical network
22 reasons, since the web blog was hosted on Plaintiffs server.
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17. The Defendant disregarded Plaintiffs explanation and filed a cyber
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crime report with the FBI seeking an investigation based on Defendants narrative.
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1 and the Orange County Sheriffs Office and that they are not protected speech. (See
2 Lefebvre v. Lefebvre (2011) 199 Cal.App. 4th 696) [where the Defendants police
3 report was determined to be false . . . against the Plaintiff])
4 25. The Plaintiff asserts that the estimated daily unique visitors count for
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Defendants www.orlytaitzesq.com site, is remarkable, based on Internet traffic
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sources.
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26. Based on information and belief, the Internet traffic sources scan
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Alexa, Compete, Google Ad Planner etc. to depict the potential value of a site
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based on unique user count. Unique user count is a common way of measuring the
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popularity of a website and is often used by potential advertisers or investors. As
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of February 2017, CuteStat.com estimated that the www.orlytaitzesq.com site
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generates average daily visit of 1412 while StatShow.com estimates that the
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www.orlytaitzesq.com site average daily visits of 2300. [Exhibit K].
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15 27. Defendants libelous statements
16 April 17, 2009 - More explosive Information dossier #6 posted on
17 www.orlytaitzesq.com, using (dr_taitz@yahoo.com) email that was
sent to numerous recipients stating:
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19 I started receiving statements and copies of pay pal receipts,
showing instead of my email address, an e-mail address of Lisa
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Ostella. Originally, I thought that maybe her address showed on
21 the receipt, since she was a web master on the account, however,
when I checked the names and dates on the receipts, . . . I could
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see that those were not received by the foundation, those
23 donations were missing. [ Exhibit I - Dkt. #190 - Ex. 4, p. 2-5,
24 pertinent at p. 3 and p. 4- [#4660- 4663]
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1 April 17, 2009 Defendant filed a police report with the Orange
2 County Sheriff Office stating that:
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learned that some monetary donations intended
4 for Defend Our Freedoms was redirected to Lisas
personal email account; (2)in reality donations were
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redirected to Lisa Ostellas (AKA: Lisa Liberi) personal
6 account; that the estimated loss was $10,000. -
[ Exhibit I - Dkt. #190 - Ex 4, p. 30 33, pertinent
7 p.32.) See also Exhibit 8 at p. 27 - 4) [#4886]
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April 18, 2009 Follow up on Lisa Liberi, paralegal to Phil Berg,
12 I have closed the paypal account when I saw that Lisa Ostella
13 has redirected the Defend Our Freedoms blog and redirected
the paypal, - [Exhibit I - Dkt. #190- Ex. 4, P. 41-44 ID #4699]
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April 18, 2009 Dont Be Fooled posted on
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www.orlytaitzesq.com with caption stating the following about the
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Plaintiff:
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19 My former web master Lisa Ostella has created an
20 account that she called Defend Our Freedoms
Network and is soliciting donations, praying on
21 unsuspecting readers that would not notice the
difference between Defend Our Freedoms
22 Foundation and Defend Our Freedoms
Community. Please notice, your donations
23 there will not go to the foundation, they will go to her
24 personal bank account, connected to her personal
e-mail address GoExcellGlobal. She posted
25 underneath a PayPal logo with my e-mail address,
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15 36. The Defendants web blog postings of the Plaintiff, Lisa Ostella, for
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the last 8 years, depict the Plaintiff in a false light in that:
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a. The Defendants web blog posting depiction of the Plaintiff are a
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major misrepresentation of Lisa Ostellas character,
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professionalism, responsibility, history, and reputation;
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b. The Defendants depiction of the Plaintiff was and is highly
21 offensive to a reasonable person; and
22 c. Defendant acted in a reckless disregard as to the falsity of the
23 publicized posts about the Plaintiff.
24 37. That as a direct and proximate cause result of Defendants actions and
25 inactions, Plaintiff has been harmed.
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1 CLAIM II
2 (FAC 4th Claim Appropriation of name Invasion of Privacy)
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4 38. The Plaintiff realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1
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through 37, including sub-paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.
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39. The Defendants web blog postings, of the Plaintiff, Lisa Ostella, for
8 the last 8 years, have been for the purposes of deriving donations and have been for
9 the defendants commercial or trade interest, without having any redeeming public
10 interest, news, or historical importance.
11 40. As a result of Defendants misappropriation of Plaintiffs name, the
12 Defendant had financially benefited at the expense of the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff
13 has been directly and proximately hurt.
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CLAIM III
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16 (FAC 7th Claim Cyber Harassment/Bullying)
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18 41 The Plaintiff realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1
19 through 40, including sub-paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.
20 42. The Defendants web blog postings for the last 8 years, have had a
21 harassing and bullying effect. The Defendant used the Internet crossing stateliness
22 vilifying and criminality on the Plaintiff.
23 43. The Defendant continuously posted about the Plaintiff, harassing the
24 Plaintiff by characterizing her as a criminal and reading that Defendant is coaxing
25 donors and followers to garner bad sentiments toward the Plaintiff. To see the
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1 claims on the Defendants web blog still into 2017 is harassing to the Plaintiff, i.e.,
2 Pursuant to Calif. C. Civ. Proc. 527.6; Calif. C. Civ. Proc. 1708.7
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Calif. C. Civ. Proc. 527.6: (3) Harassment is . . . a knowing and
4 willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms,
annoys, or harasses the person, and that serves no legitimate purpose. The
5 course of conduct must be that which would cause a reasonable person to
6 suffer substantial emotional distress, and must actually cause substantial
emotional distress to the petitioner.
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8 Calif. C. Civ. Proc. 1708.7: (a) A person is liable for the tort of
9 stalking when the plaintiff proves . . . (1) The defendant engaged in a
pattern of conduct the intent of which was to, . . . or harass the plaintiff. . .
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. . (2) As a result of that pattern of conduct, either of the following
11 occurred: . . . (B) The plaintiff suffered substantial emotional distress, and
12 the pattern of conduct would cause a reasonable person to suffer
13 substantial emotional distress.
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15 44. The Defendants web blog postings maliciously tarnishing the
16 Plaintiffs reputation and persona through the last eight (8) years has had a
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harassing and bullying effect tormenting the Plaintiff, whose livelihood depends on
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her work on the Internet and utilizing the Internet, for marketing, delivery of
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services, and communicating with clients.
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CLAIM IV
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23 (FAC 8 Claim Defamation Per Se - Libel Per Se)
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25 45. The Plaintiff realleges and incorporates by reference paragraphs 1
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through 44, including sub-paragraphs as though fully set forth herein.
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PRAYER FOR RELIEF
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WHEREFORE, Plaintiff prays for the Court to consider the amount of
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5 years that it will take for the Defendants Internet postings about the Plaintiff to not
6 be propagated nor indexed by Yandex, Bing and Google and data aggregators.
7 MOREOVER, Plaintiff further prays that the Court render a judgment in
8 Plaintiffs favor as follows:
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10 1. For general damages, to be awarded of $10,000,000;
11 2. For special damages arising from loss of business and business
12 opportunities, according to proof at trial;
13 3. For presumed damages;
14 4. For exemplary (punitive) damages;
15 5. For equitable relief including but not limited to the relief requested
16 above that would address Defendants egregious, sensational and
17 malicious conduct;
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6. For costs of suit incurred in this action, along with attorney fees; and
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7. For each and other further relief as the Court deems just and proper.
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22 Respectfully submitted: September 5, 2017
23 /s/ J.B. Lorenzo
24 LORENZO LAW FIRM, P.A.
25 Counsel for Plaintiff
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1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been
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furnished to the following via electronic mail and by regular U.S. mail first class
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8 Jeff Cunningham, Esq.
9 Schumann Rosenberg
3100 Bristol Street, Suite 100
10 Costa Mesa, CA 92602
11 jcunningham@schumannrosenberg.com
Tel: (714) 850-0210, Ext. 268
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Fax: (714) 850-0551
13 Counsel for Defendant Orly Taitz
14 /s/JB Lorenzo
15 Jose B. Lorenzo
LORENZO LAW FIRM, P.A.
16 2040 Delta Way
17 P.O. Box 11253
Tallahassee, FL 32302
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admin@lorenzolawfirm.com
19 Counsel for Plaintiff
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1 EXHIBIT INDEX
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A. May 9, 2017 screen shots of Defendants defamatory posts from
4 her www.orlytaitzesq.com web blog about Plaintiff
5 B. WHOIS record of Plaintiffs ownership of the domains Defend
6 Our Freedoms and suffixes
7 C. Docket # 190 Exhibit 5
8 D. Email correspondence between parties about Defendants claims
9 and report to FBI
10 E. Email Plaintiff to Defendant sending the donate button code for
Defendants operation 12/18/2008
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12 F. Fictitious name filing by Defendant of Defend our Freedoms
12/23/2008
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G. Non Profit registry in California by Defendant of Defend Our
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Freedoms 2/19/2009
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H. Docket #722, Exhibit #1, Defendants published Dossier 5
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I. Docket # 190 Exhibit 4
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J. Email correspondence between Plaintiff and Defendants new
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webmaster coordinating to transfer content between old and new
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20 K. Internet screen shot of website traffic stats for Defendants blog
21 site where defamatory statements are published
22 L. Docket # 190 Exhibit 6
23 M. Docket # 190 Exhibit 7
24 N. Docket # 190 Exhibit 22
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