[protected] When I buy a home does that mean I subject myself to being profiled on Blockshopper.com so that any interested person can know where I live, what I paid for my home, where I work, what my affiliations are, where I went to law school, and what I look like? Yes yes it's public records but the fact that they are making money without giving me some sort of reimbursement is unlawful and unethical. Except for Blockshopper. The website Blockshopper.com, owned by Timothy Landon and Brian Timpone of Chicago, posted my sisters name and address on their site, so her name would automatically pop up in a Google search. About four months later, a few weeks before the case was set for trial in Illinois, the two sides agreed. Find information on current lawsuits and settlements, or the latest news on products and services. And if harassment or threats are the result of these postings of private addresses, they will only remove address information if provided confidential court and police records confirming harassment or threats. I felt completely violated by Blockshopper and my personal security threatened 24/7. Please feel free to contact this organization to inform them that he is putting military members who have served and interacted with local nationals in Iraq and Afghanistan at risk of being found so easily by enemies of our nation. A lawsuit is filed in federal or state court on behalf of a group, or class, of investors . I have no luck getting in touch with a real person. . You may be eligible for a payment Claim deadline is Monday, 01 May 2023. Apr 12, 2010 5:01 pm EDT. I think the site is intrusive and dangerous. In 2019, the ADA filed a class action lawsuit against the Delta Dental Plans and the Delta Dental Plans Association, and in January, the federal district court for the Northern District of Illinois amended its scheduling order to allow the parties additional time to conduct discovery. Coordinated e-mail campaign: Individual e-mails isn't going to do it. blockshoppers( Scarlett@blockshopper.com, brian@blockshopper.com, informed that I have a unique name that no other women has.I also informed them Timpone said his 15-employee company made a business decision that it couldn't continue the fight. If youre a resident of California, it doesnt matter if you own property in other states. Evanston, IL [protected] Try our Advanced Search for more refined results. Is this truly a matter of First Amendment rights? Timpone settled the suit by making a technical change to his hyperlinks. Timothy Landon Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox. Then, after a doing research on the company and the founders I find that they are Real Estate [censored]s with unethical bad business practices. A lawsuit is very much due. . The BBB that will handle your complaint is: Blockshopper.com does not have the right to provide names. and wants to explore a class action lawsuit Consumers who owned or leased a 2010-2015 Prius or 2012-2017 Prius V as of May 19, 2022, may be eligible for a repair reimbursement (including related car rental costs, towing charges, etc.) The articles linked to the lawyers' profile pages on the firm's 2,300-attorney site. Former AT&T customers may be eligible to claim a refund from the $7 million remaining in a fund required by the Federal Trade Commission in 2019 to settle allegations that the wireless provider charged for unlimited data planswhile reducing their data speedsa practice known as throttling. The case was recently settled. Its location on this page may change next time you visit. After that date all complaints need to be filed with the St. Louis, MO BBB. If you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, you can't list people's information if they have a safety concern and want the info removed. After Dunlap failed to persuade Blockshopper to remove the story, he dashed off a series of blog posts attacking Timpone. This should be investigated by the Attorney General! Regionally and nationally accredited, APUS serves more than 70, 000 adult learners worldwide and offers 79 degree programs in fields ranging from homeland security, military studies, intelligence, and criminal justice to technology, business administration, public health, and liberal arts. Another of the aggrieved started an anonymous anti-Blockshopper blog, which professes to tell "the truth about Blockshopper.com and scumbag owners Timothy Landon, Brian Timpone and Edward Weinhaus." Every month a few dozen hit the roof. - Feb 20, 2009 6:05 pm UTC. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. At the time, BlockShopper had incurred $10,000 in legal fees. They told me it requires crime with a police report first to be be removed.. Perhaps they have the right to provide the property information, I'm not sure, but they sure don't have the right to freely provide names to the entire world. Well, how is it that Blockshopper.com is the ONLY one who can do the blah, blah, blah dance I am furious and ready to join the fight! By then BlockShopper had rung up $110,000 in legal fees. Blockshopper.com Top Class Actions has helped law firms across the country successfully find plaintiffs for class action lawsuits & mass torts since 2008, receiving tens of thousands of leads per month. That ought to keep his enemy list growing nicely. A small Web site was launched in 2006 called Blockshopper.com for the purpose of assisting buyers and sellers in the market for real estate to find the best deal possible. Now those postings will go back up, along with listings of property transactions by other Jones Day lawyers, Timpone said. I have been speaking to a Scarlet ** about CA rights of privacy, she is refusing to remove my online information and is claiming it is public which is false and not allowed, I am sick of her asking me for personal information and I am in no way obligated to allow a breach of my personal information online at this scammer site and to provide anything that is private. If you are a former Claim deadline is Thursday, 18 May 2023. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ClassAction.org is a group of designers, writers and programmers who have been working in the legal space for nearly a decade. I am complaining about Blockshopper in Chicago and St. Louis and the following individuals Brian Timpone, Chicago Ed Weinhaus, St. Louis Timothy Landon, Evanston, Scarlett Simpson, I think that we should use their database to mine all those people who represent a potential client list for a class action lawsuit against blockshopper. Jones Day rejected the plan. again, the CEO's home info We would always search her name periodically and opt out of search sites. to stopblockshopper The US census records for each individual aren't made electronically available until many decades after the census is completed. I just sent a letter to Scarlett and told her: That my husband and I are not celebrities, public officials or in the public eye in any which way or form. They told me it requires crime with a police report first to be be removed. 2704 Bennett Our Legal/Marketing First Amendment team can be reached at our Chicago office. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. If you received a notice from Volkswagen and/or Audi in June 2021 notifying you that your personal data may have been exposed in a data breach between August 2019 and May 2021, you are eligible for a monetary award from a $3.5 million class action settlement. good thing it is publicly available information Their response to the question of anonymity is completely unacceptable (read it for yourself at http://www.blockshopper.com/faq.html#q4)! I should be able to automatically prevent my name from showing up on BlockShopper, especially when its tied to my home address. Law360 takes your privacy seriously. A stalker could google your name and blockshopper.com conveniently provides them with your address. Robert W Navarre II Please see our Privacy Policy. Therefore, it is a bad idea to create an advertisement suggesting that a celebrity -- or anyone for that matter -- endorses your website or blog. Besides putting us as risk, their business is using our names for purposes of profit. It is true that data is public (their excuse) but it is illegal based on Exploitative Purpose, he is using your names to endorse his site without your permission. Usually those searches are done by licensed professionals such as realtors and attorneys subject to ethical standards of propriety. Synchrony Bank, an issuer of retail credit cards, has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company made prerecorded calls to consumers cell phones without their consent, regarding accounts they did not have. When Ive googled the company, a ton of stuff comes up about class action lawsuits and how its notoriously difficult to get anything taken down. Contact your representatives. For reasons still unbeknownst to the world, however, Jones Day was very displeased by these links and filed a lawsuit against BlockShopper in September of 2008, leveling the odd charge of . This is a horrible organization that refuses to take off your personal information. The 37-year-old is an ex-journalist who with a friend created Blockshopper.com. We can only hope that future cases like this one will have outcomes that make more sense. and talked with wife . 2704 Bennett How do I know I can trust these reviews about Blockshopper.com? While there are legal remedies available, such as creating a land trust for home ownership, land trusts require annual fees and are burdensome to lenders as the practice is considered outdated. All rights reserved. more people will read about [and find out about] Blockshopper.com and how they WON'T Data Breach Lawsuit. We need numbers. Ways to stop them: Guillermo told lawyer that He never, ever wrote the file case co- sign names = Felicita Gerena, Digna Gerena and Guillermo Rivera lived own house at 1726 N. MapleWood ave Chicago, IL 60647 to Nov.11, 1995yr. In a case alleging that numerous U.S. chicken processors conspired to restrict the supply of, and fix, raise and stabilize the price of chicken, some of the defendants have reached a $181 million settlement. BlockShopper also will have a new link for visitors curious about why Jones Day references come in a different format than all the other tie-ins appearing on the BlockShopper site. They publish your HOME ADDRESS and offer no way to have that information removed. Our content is intended to be used for general information purposes only. Customers who used a payment card to make a purchase at Claim deadline is Saturday, 22 April 2023. threats and anyone at anytime can locate me. If you are a former AT&T customer who had an unlimited data plan at any time between Oct. 1, 2011, and June 30, 2015, and you experienced data throttling but have not received a bill credit or payment from AT&T related to this case, you can submit a claim. Scarlett@blockshopper.com EDWARD WEINHAUS The links still exist, just in a somewhat different, slightly awkward structure that is not clearly better than the original. I agree. And to make it mandatory we provide them with our badges, identification and court records, is outright absurd. Share your photos and videos with others to prove the truth of your words. You may be eligible for payment if you received such a call since Oct. 16, 2020. let's keep the ball rolling.. .". I would like to participate in a class action lawsuit against blockshopper.com. You can sort the listing three waysactions or settlements that are (1) open to claims, (2) pending or (3) closedor use the calendar to search for upcoming claims deadlines. Archived post. This violates my privacy and borders on criminal behavior. me to open and close down a center that carries a ton of money. Don't we own our names? I suggest you contact your representatives as well. or Experian. About four months later, a few weeks before the case was set for trial in Illinois, the two sides agreed to settle, Timpone said. CA does not allow this. Mr Tim Landon is also on the board of directors for American Public Education, Inc. It adds to that brief articles about transactions involving lawyers, doctors and other buyers and sellers whose names show up in Google searches. on THEIR website with OUR information ? Why can't they be stopped? I just found a blockshoppers.com video on YouTube. BlockShopper has to send a permanent employee to defend themseves at trial - I figure that's really worth the hassle even though you may lose the case and the $50. Tesla was hit . Kirks Natural, LLC, which distributes soaps, hand washes and creams under the South of France brand in the U.S., agreed to pay $650,000 to settle allegations that the company misrepresented its products, which are actually produced in the U.S. (not in Southern France). (Weinhaus was Timpone's cofounder; co-owner Landon arrived later.) You can sort the listing three waysactions or settlements that are (1) open to claims, (2) pending or (3) closedor use the calendar to search for upcoming claims deadlines. I told her that if by a certain date my name and my husbands name is not removed I will be filing a lawsuit because I am not free and I am not cheap. and how they've already been sued by a HUGE law firm If the company uses public info, they should do research as well to ensure safety. btwBrian, nice hair on your you-tube videoand you don't mean any harm to anyone? It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment based on your own personal circumstances and consult with your own investment, financial, tax and legal advisers. Email . A class-action lawsuit for price gouging was filed against Summit Utilities in Pulaski County District Court Thursday.