Nicolazzo v. Yoingco [1]

After a dispute arose about Flora Nicolazzo's failure to make payments to Dennis Yoingco for the sale of a bulldog, Yoingco allegedly posted "websites and other internet messages and postings defaming [Flora and Robert Nicolazzo], including a copy of her driver's license and a mock wanted poster later edited to say 'Captured.'"  The Nicolazzos filed a lawsuit in Ohio State Court, claiming defamation, false light invasion of privacy, abuse of process, telecommunications and telephone harassment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.  

Yoingco filed a motion to dismiss, and the court denied the motion with regard to each of the Nicolazzo's claims, except the claims for telecommunications and telephone harassment, which the court dismissed.  See Nicolazzo v. Yoingco [2], 898 N.E.2d 94 (Ohio Ct. Cm. Pls. 2007). The case went to trial in November 2007, and the jury returned a judgment in favor of Yoingco.