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I am being sued by Nike for a website that I had open about 6 months ago and sold Jordan shoes?
I’ve been selling on eBay for about two years now and never have I seen a product because I drop ship everything which means my provider sends the products straight to the customer without me every seeing or having to touch anything. Now I opened a website which was called (stepclose) but is no longer working and now I’m dealing with some paralegals who are representing Nike and have a chance to settle for everything I’ve sold on this site.
Now I’m no longer able to access my website or Googlecheckout which I used for payment process so they issued a subpoena which means they’re going to ask Storesonline (my website hosting) and Googlecheckout for this account information so they sent me the following and I have to sign in order to give them that permission:
PLAINTIFF Nike, Inc. (“Plaintiff”), by and through its counsel of record, Annie S. Wang, of J. Andrew Coombs, A P.C., and Defendant Wilfrido Martinez (“Defendant”), in pro se, hereby stipulate and agree as follows:
WHEREAS the Complaint was filed in the above-captioned matter on or about December 10, 2008;
WHEREAS Plaintiff alleges Defendant infringed Plaintiff’s Copyrights while operating the website www.Stepclose.com, an online store purchased through
StoresOnline, Inc. (“StoresOnline”), with license ID: 2035866 and e-mail address of info@stepclose.com;
WHEREAS Plaintiff alleges Defendant infringed Plaintiff’s Copyrights while operating under Google Checkout account User IDs “Ebay Retail” and “RiFlores” with email addresses of buzzerbeater5@hotmail.com and riflores23@hotmail.com;
WHEREAS Defendant cannot access or produce certain StoresOnline and Google Checkout records;
WHEREAS procurement of Defendant’s StoresOnline and Google Checkout records are vital to settlement of Plaintiff’s claims.
NOW, THEREFORE, Plaintiff and Defendant stipulate and agree that Plaintiff may serve immediate discovery on StoresOnline and Google, Inc. in accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(d), and prior to a Rule 26(f) conference, by serving a Rule 45 subpoenas, which seek all documents, including but not limited to, all documents that refer or relate to an account under User IDs “Wilfrido Martinez”, “Will Martinez”, “StepClose”, “StepClose.com”, “Ebay Retail”, “liveaspirations”, “Riflores” or with email addresses of info@stepclose.com, buzzerbeater5@hotmail.com, riflores23@hotmail.com, duke_of_earl_5@hotmail.com, and/or dreamon1923@hotmail.com.
Now does this mean that they are only asking Googlecheckout and Storesonline for my information, or will everything that has ever been linked to these e-mail addresses show up? Like my eBay account that they didn’t know about? Since they are complaining about that website I had. I’ve been doing this for a while now and never thought this was highly illegal. Please help!!!
Can an employer legally defer business expenses to employee?
I am an IT Security support technician, my employer (very large multinationalbank) is cost cutting and has decided that ADSL lines are to be treated as a utility and employees are to now pay for their own. As Business Broadband is expensive I have checked out the T&C’s on Domestic ADSL contracts and they state they are not to be used for business purposes. As I cant really aafforda business contract can my employer essentially force me to knowingly break these T&C’s with the ADSL provider, do they not have some corporate responsibility here?
Also, they are soon to make employees pay for work related phone calls, (except for international), I on occasion am required to dial into conference calls for hours on end for big issues these cost tens of pounds at a time can they do this?
Cheers Adam