California Gubernatorial Candidate Files Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against VeriSign.Business Editors AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003 California Gubernatorial Candidate David Sams David Sams is one of the world's most respected marketing strategists, a nine-time Emmy® award-winning TV producer, and emerging technologies guru. He has been featured in the pages of TVGUIDE, USATODAY, and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. (R-Agoura Hills), Chairman of David Sams Industries, Inc., says that his company has filed a lawsuit in United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. in California against VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ) for alleged:
1. Fraud
2. Breach of Contract
3. Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
4. Tortious Interference with Contract
5. Tortious Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage
6. Copyright Infringement
7. Conversion
8. Violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
9. Unfair Competition
10. Declaratory Relief
"VeriSign and its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. Enic Corporation simply hijacked our Internet business -- taking away 100,000-plus domain names from us," states Sams. "They may be the 800-pound gorilla of Internet commerce, but we have to stand up and protect and defend the rights of our customers." Sams' gubernatorial platform has highlighted protecting the rights of small business. David Sams Industries, Inc. owns and operates some of the Internet's most successful businesses including www.SamsDirect.com, where domain names sell for under $10 per year versus $35 per year through VeriSign's Network Solutions. David Sams is a nine-time Emmy(R) Award winning television producer, director, and writer. As head of marketing for King World, Sams helped to launch the OPRAH WINFREY “Oprah” redirects here. For the show, see The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in television history. SHOW, and turned WHEEL OF FORTUNE and JEOPARDY! into household names History Formation (1998-2000) Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. . In 1999, he and his wife/business partner Renee started SamsDirect Internet and quickly built it into one of the Internet's Cinderella stories. Sams also heads up CNI (1) (Certified NetWare Instructor) See Novell certification. (2) (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, www.cni.org) A partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE and EDUCOM, founded in 1990. Holdings, Inc. (Christian Network Holdings) which delivers faith-based programming to nearly 80 million U.S. television households. This case is currently pending in the United States District Court in Los Angeles, Case Number CV03-686NM (Ex). |
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