[mgkimsal]

right... well, that's almost what I did. saying where it was, letting someone google my name in nyc and look for court records. i've only sued one person in nyc - it wouldn't be that hard.

But, publicizing on my blog, yeah. In some ways I think the moment's passed. If/when we ever get to court, I'll release the name then, unless there's some gag order (am I being too dramatic?)

[vacri]

The difference is that if someone is googling John Smith, they won't find your blog post without his name on it.

Thankfully I've never had to experience court on either side - it looks like it gets expensive very very quickly.

[mgkimsal]

I'm representing myself, so it was only the trip to NYC, filing fees, and hiring a processor. The processor could not get this guy, so we filed a notice saying he'd attempted 3 times. I suspect this guy has avoided process servers before, but not sure.

Yes, the googling aspect doesn't help too much. Interestingly, having to remember back to 2008, this same situation happened with someone else they'd contracted. This particular contractor was in tennessee, and was owed ... much less than me. He blogged about it by name, and the NYC guy apparently (per the TN guy's story) went ballistic threatening to sue and such, and said he would pay when the post was taken down. So... it was taken down. Then never paid. The TN guy eventually gave up through these bullying tactics. I'm not going to give up.

It's so far in the past now that, while $9k would be great, I don't need it, and won't settle for half, nor will I settle for any conditions about not blogging about it.