
(To the victor go the spoils. / Photoshop via MRuss)
Cage Potato is pleased to announce that a troubling legal matter has been settled in our favor. After being named as a defendant in a June 2009 defamation lawsuit filed by MMA trainer Juanito Ibarra, we’ve finally been removed from the frivolous suit, and Cage Potato’s parent company has been awarded $61,075 in attorney fees and associated costs.
The lawsuit stemmed from a September 2008 PunchDrunkGamer.com interview with Tito Ortiz, in which Ortiz claimed that Ibarra had overcharged Quinton Jackson for his training camps, which led to Jackson severing professional ties with Ibarra. Like many other sites, Cage Potato quoted the interview in a blog post, and gave our own thoughts on the matter. Nine months later, Ibarra responded by filing suit against CagePotato.com — as well as Ortiz, Jackson, and over 20 web sites and writers — claiming that we damaged his reputation by publishing false information.
Fortunately, Ibarra wasn’t able to prove his claims in court. In September, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Zaven Sinanian granted a motion by our lawyers to dismiss CagePotato.com from the lawsuit. Our lawyers then filed a counter-suit to recoup attorney fees and other court costs, which was successful. On October 27th, a Los Angeles judge awarded Cage Potato’s parent company a judgment of $61,075.
Ortiz and Jackson are the only remaining defendants in Ibarra’s lawsuit; all of the other media outlets named in the suit have reportedly either settled with Ibarra or have been removed as defendants.
Because Ibarra never offered proof that Ortiz’s statements were false, and because CagePotato.com didn’t re-publish Ortiz’s quotes out of malice towards Ibarra, we always felt that the lawsuit was meritless and motivated by profit — a shakedown, essentially. We applaud the Los Angeles County court system for defending our right to report the news.








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Your blessing and free pass are more than Welcome. I have had my turn with the authorities - and spent many nights on the floor of domestic and foreign jails, before I became respectable and a friend to all. Yet it was all in fun, and usually the Military Police where all to willing to either give me an escort or hard fist'ed lesson out of the UCMJ - GRIN
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Oakland is alright, as long as one packs a piece at night. Matter of fact, I used to call home for several years directly under the Webster tube....on that little Island called Alameda. If I hadn't left when I did, I would surely been crushed to dadeath as the earthquake collapsed the freeway...I would have assuredly been driving on.
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I do travel North to visit, if there is ever a UFC event local in the future,or if I am in town and there is a recommended bar that carries the event...we will need to meet. I will buy the booze or smuggle it in.
You or other's can reach me here: timing62709@mypacks.net
Ps...hope those cheap bastards at CP send you that t-shrit they owe you...
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Sorry brother Shartacus...this is the only portal I have ever posted on outside some very esoteric Lists. Economics, war, killing...all that kind of good stuff.
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What is TCM?
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Are use a Italian handle, made famous by a Dutchman, but you have a preference for Jewish humor about the shhticking, shhhteiny, and shhtories.
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My guess is your likely uncircumcised and live in Brooklyn or Lawrence with both wife and dog?
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I got a big bottle of Drano you put your lips around. I hope when that day comes, you don't choke after the big gulp.
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So SmellyHooker....you think that everything on CP is above board, no shenanigans then? They say 80% are believers, no foul in being so trusting - for a pirate that is.
When the Dana White, CP sex tape comes out. post it. Until then I'm still gonna have to question alot of your logic and rhetoric
I think the comments were a better read than the article... I always had a suspicion Dana was behind my Free CP T-Shirt!
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SethF --- maybe one day, I'll think of something witty
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I know I sound like a broken record, but never change, buddy. And submit questions for Ask the Potato, buddy!
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