{"id":715813,"date":"2010-04-13T18:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:15:59","slug":"towing-company-sues-student-over-facebook-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/715813","title":{"rendered":"Towing Company Sues Student Over Facebook Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T&J Towing of Kalamazoo, MI wants to send a message to anyone in the town who feels like complaining about the company online. They’ve filed a $750,000 defamation lawsuit<\/a> against a Western Michigan University student for starting a Facebook page<\/a> about them.<\/p>\n

The student, Justin Kurtz, told the local news station, <\/p>\n

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“It’s not like I was making untrue claims or anything. It’s not like I had control over anything that everyone had posted the whole time. I told everyone to be professional, don’t post any threats. Just tell your story and that’s what pretty much everyone did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Towing co. wants $750K from WMU student”<\/a> [WOOD TV8] (Thanks to Dustin!)<\/i>
\n“Kalamazoo Residents against T&J Towing”<\/a> [Facebook]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T&J Towing of Kalamazoo, MI wants to send a message to anyone in the town who feels like complaining about the company online. They’ve filed a $750,000 defamation lawsuit against a Western Michigan University student for starting a Facebook page about them. The student, Justin Kurtz, told the local news station, “It’s not like I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817388,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715813\/revisions\/817388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}