threatened suit

[BENSEB1]

What is the name of your state? Virginia

My ex-boyfriend and soon-to-be ex-coworker pled
to assault and battery, with a suspended
imposition of sentence contingent
on one year of no contact with me,
and
a mental health evaluation.

I am quitting the job and have
worked at an alternate site for
several months with management
permission so I haven't had contact
with him for a couple of months now.

After the charges were filed, but before
the hearing date and no contact order,
he left a message
on my work phone
(since I changed home and
cell numbers)
that I had better call him
or else he is going to sue me
and make me bankrupt.

He had said before that
he would sue me for
posting a review of him on neverdatehim.com,
which described his repeat phone messages
(retained recordings),
and behaviors toward me,
and for
forwarding emails related to his
sexual contacts with other women after
he gave me his email password to check
his email more than a year ago now.

His allegation is that one of the emails
went to his ex's fiance, and it was
authored by my ex, stating that the ex's
fiance's
male parts were smaller than my ex's
and she agreed with that assessment
in the email exchange.

Now, my ex has posted on the Internet
that he will have me criminally charged with
harassment, invasion of privacy,
misappropriation of emails, and
23 other counts and he will make sure
I am arrested at work and he will
videotape it.

Assuming one takes his allegations as true,
do his allegations make a valid lawsuit either
civil or criminal?

He said in one of his Internet posts that
he doesn't care if the suit is found to
have merit, but that
he wants to put this information in
the public eye and in litigation
so I have to defend myself.

I have searched for the posts because
he also posted information about my family
and where they live on the Internet too.What is the name of your state?

 

[quincy]

His allegations, true or not, make a valid lawsuit only because he doesn't seem to care if there is merit in his allegations. He is not preparing to win a lawsuit, in other words, but to seek vengeance.

If he files suit, you could file a motion (for summary judgment or a directed verdict?), based on legally insufficient evidence to support a verdict in your ex's favor - if, in fact, you do not believe he has sufficient evidence to support harassment, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of emails, et al, charges against you. Point out in your motion the absence of evidence - as well as the no-contact order issued against your ex.

If you think, however, that there could be merit in his charges - that you used the neverdatehim site to harass him or invade his privacy - then you may want to consult with a Virginia attorney to see how best to handle his potential suit against you. Those don'tdatehim sites have given rise to several defamation, invasion of privacy and harassment lawsuits in the past.