ComplaintsforJustia

• Initial Complaint

  06/23/2023

  Complaint Type:

  Service or Repair Issues

  Status:

  Answered

  More info

  Justia put up a listing for me as a lawyer showing that I was practicing law in ******, ******. I did work for a law firm in ****** over 14 years ago, but have long ago left ******. The site shows me as having an address and practicing law there today. As a US citizen, under current sanctions laws, that is a federal crime! It is clearly false and, since it constitutes a crime, it is defamatory. I wrote to them, and they removed it for 24 hours, then put up another one with essentially the same information. I need your help in resolving this. Here is the link in question:**************************************************************************** This is causing me huge problems, my accounting firm has dropped me as a client because of this. Please help!

  Business response

  06/26/2023

  Hi Nat: 

  Please note that **************** is not a Justia client. 

  **************** complains that his personal information is on our website. 

  Justia provides access to lawyer information located in the public record. We do so as a free public service. The listings in question relate to ****************** association with the State Bar of *****, the State Bar of California, and the District of Columbia Bar. 

  The information provided on these bar association websites are in the public record. Justia uses public information to generate profiles on the Justia Lawyer Directory. Furthermore, Justia has generated a process by which lawyers may remove their information from the Justia Lawyer Directory by first claiming their profile(s). This requirement is in place so that unauthorized third parties may not remove or tamper with a lawyers information.

  However, even though we are under no legal obligation to do so, Justia promptly responded to ****************** initial email request, dated Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 9:23 a.m. Pacific Time, to remove his information. At that time, **************** provided a single link to a listing. Justia removed the information contained at that link and replied on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, informing **************** that his information was removed. 

  **************** replied on Friday, June 23, 2023, at 1:59 a.m., Pacific Time, alleging that we replaced the removed listing with another listing. This is untrue. We performed a more thorough search of our site and removed the preexisting listing identified by **************** from our site.

  We wrote back to **************** on Friday, June 23, 2023 at 1:17 p.m. Pacific Time, apologizing for the oversight and informing **************** that all his information was removed from our site. 

   

• Initial Complaint

  02/04/2023

  Complaint Type:

  Sales and Advertising Issues

  Status:

  Resolved

  More info

  There is court case which has been sealed on your website:************************************************************************************************ I kindly ask for this court case be removed from your website as it contains sensitive personal information about my person, and again it should have been removed. Please I kindly ask for your cooperation in removing this information from your website.Thank you

  Business response

  02/06/2023

  Hi Nat,

  Please note: **************************** is not a Justia client.

  **************************** complains that her sealed court opinion is on our site.

  Justia provides access to federal and state court dockets, filings and opinions located in the public record. We do so as a free public service. The matter in question refers to a ******************* of Appeals decision, Inchaustegui v. ***************************************************** Reports and North Eastern Reporter, Second Series (96 ****2d 111; 749 N.E.2d 196).  We do not see a record of this decision being removed post-publication from these reporters.

  Even though we are under no legal obligation to do so, Justia will reasonably provide accommodation to block public record case filings and opinions on our site from appearing in search engine results using the robots.txt protocol.  Justia provides a form for submission of such requests along with a more detailed explanation of our public record court filings and opinions here:
  ***********************************************************************

  We have no record of **************************** submitting such a request directly to us. 

  As a courtesy, we have now submitted a robots removal request regarding Ms. ************* opinion, however, **************************** is advised we have no control over how long it will take any search engines to remove this or any other opinion. For any future correspondence, **************************** should contact us at **********************************.

  Customer response

  02/06/2023

   
  Better Business Bureau:
  
  I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID ********, and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  ***************************************

• Initial Complaint

  07/18/2022

  Complaint Type:

  Customer Service Issues

  Status:

  Answered

  More info

  justia.com and ************* has posted a court case on their websites throughout the internet. I informed them 1) The court case involve sensitive personal information regarding a minor. 2) ALL of the allegations were proven FALSE and unfounded, 3) The Judge ordered all information regarding the case to be sealed.

  Business response

  08/03/2022

  Business Response /* (1000, 5, 2022/07/22) */ Hi ***: Please note:*********** is not a Justia client. ********** complains that her personal information is on our website. Justia provides access to federal and state dockets, filings and court opinions located in the public record. We do so as a free public service. The matter in question refers to litigation filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of **********. Since these court dockets, filings, and opinions are in the public record, Justia will not fully remove items from our database without an applicable court order marking such records under seal or designating them for removal from the public record. Accordingly, please note in regards to **********' complaint that this information is sealed: as of today's date, records and docketing information from the above- referenced litigation ********* *************) is available to the public, i.e., not under seal, via the Federal Judiciary's PACER database. However, even though we are under no legal obligation to do so, Justia will reasonably provide accommodation to block public record case filings and opinions from appearing in search engine results using the*********** protocol. ********** submitted a request for removal of *********** *************, on Saturday, July 16, 2022, a day in which our office is closed. On the following Monday, July 18, 2022, as a courtesy, Justia applied the ********** protocol and wrote back to ********** via email indicating the same. The protocol remains in place. ********** was also advised via our email that Justia has no control over how long it will take any search engines to remove a case or cases. Consumer Response /* (3000, 7, 2022/07/23) */ (The consumer indicated he/she DID NOT accept the response from the business.) Justia has not removed this from search results. It is still live. Plaintiff:********************************************************* ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* Business Response /* (4000, 9, 2022/08/01) */ Hi ***, Please note: ********** is not a Justia client. ********** complains that her personal information is on our website. Justia provides access to federal and state dockets, filings and court opinions located in the public record. We do so as a free public service. The matter in question refers to litigation filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of **********. Since these court dockets, filings, and opinions are in the public record, Justia will not fully remove items from our database without an applicable court order marking such records under seal or designating them for removal from the public record. However, even though we are under no legal obligation to do so, Justia blocked this public record case filing from appearing in search engine results using the ********** protocol at **********' request. ********** was informed of this removal and was also advised at the time that Justia has no control over how long it will take any search engines to remove a case or cases. The protocol remains in place.

• Initial Complaint

  05/25/2022

  Complaint Type:

  Sales and Advertising Issues

  Status:

  Answered

  More info

  Why does this company have an A+ rating given all of the complaints? They are exploiting others by posting information that is personal and making a profit while doing so. They are dishonest in their email responses and blatantly capitalize on the past mistakes of others. They pretend as though they are doing the world a service by providing free access to "public information" when in reality, they are a for profit organization, in it for the money. I have made numerous requests that they remove my information from their site and they refuse. They claim to only be able to deindex it, but even that they don't do properly.

  Business response

  06/21/2022

  Business Response /* (1000, 12, 2022/06/07) */ Hi ***, Please note:*********** is not a Justia client. ********** complains that her personal information is on our website. Justia provides access to federal and state dockets, filings and court opinions located in the public record. We do so as a free public service. The matter in question refers to an opinion from the ******* Court of Appeals. Since these court dockets, filings, and opinions are in the public record, Justia will not fully remove items from our database without an applicable court order marking such records under seal or designating them for removal from the public record. However, even though we are under no legal obligation to do so, Justia will reasonably provide accommodation to block case filings and opinions from appearing in search engine results using the ********** protocol. Justia provides a more detailed explanation of our public record court filings and opinions here: ******************************************************* As a courtesy, the robots exclusion protocol was applied to***********' case, and as of today's date we do not see it in Google search results.

• Initial Complaint

  03/30/2022

  Complaint Type:

  Customer Service Issues

  Status:

  Answered

  More info

  Justia website during a ****** ****** provides information related to my name that is personal and I. Related to another person through association. This information provides a negative representation of my character and associationn that creates a hindering in my professional relationships and process. I would like my name to not be associated or a key search word in this report. Please have Justia remove the case document. To ensure this information is not a continues search results when ******* ******** is put in a search.

  Business response

  04/29/2022

  Business Response /* (1000, 5, 2022/04/14) */ Hi ******, Please note:************* is not a Justia client. ************ complains that her personal information is on our website. Justia provides access to federal and state dockets, filings and court opinions located in the public record. We do so as a free public service. The matter in question refers to an opinion from the ************ ******** Court. Since these court dockets, filings, and opinions are in the public record, Justia will not fully remove items from our database without an applicable court order marking such records under seal or designating them for removal from the public record. However, even though we are under no legal obligation to do so, Justia will reasonably provide accommodation to block case filings and opinions from appearing in search engine results using the ********** protocol. Justia provides a form for submission of such requests along with a more detailed explanation of our public record court filings and opinions here: ******************************************************* *** ******** has never submitted such a request to us. As a courtesy, we have now submitted a robots removal request regarding ************** case, however, *** ******** is advised we have no control over how long it will take any search engines to remove a case or cases. For any future correspondence, *** ******** should contact us at *******************

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