FreeAdvice.com Announces Court Sanctions Unknown Abusive User IAAL and His Attorney -- Finds Making Obscene Postings Abusive to Women is Not a Public Issue -- FreeAdvice.com One Step Closer to Identifying Defendant.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- FreeAdvice.com announces IAAL's second attempt to continue to hide his identity from his victims and the public was denied today in Marin County Superior Court. The Court also ordered monetary sanctions against IAAL and his attorney.

Claiming to be an attorney, the Unknown Abusive User who used "IAAL" as his online moniker, made approximately 40,000 postings to the legal forums at the leading consumer law information website www.FreeAdvice.com over a 6-year period, FreeAdvice.com said.

When FreeAdvice.com banned him for abusive and obscene postings, IAAL retaliated by creating over 100 new user names, many of them sexually obscene and abusive to women, and by making outrageous postings. He threatened to continue his abusive conduct until FreeAdvice.com would permit him to resume posting on its Forums.

In June, 2006, the site's operator, Advice Company, brought suit against the Unknown Abusive User. With Court permission, legal process was served on IAAL when he logged onto the FreeAdvice.com website. The Court also subjected IAAL to a Temporary Restraining Order.

In July, 2006, IAAL consented to a preliminary injunction banning him from the FreeAdvice.com website, although his identity was (and still is) unknown, IAAL later refused to give testimony or respond to written requests for information.

IAAL, initially on his own, and then represented by Los Angeles area attorney Raoul Y. Roth of Encino, then sought to have the case against him dismissed as a "SLAPP suit." SLAPP Suits (an abbreviation of the term "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation") are cases intended to keep citizens from exercising their rights of free speech on public issues or matters of public interest.

IAAL and Attorney Roth also claimed that despite IAAL's abusive conduct, IAAL had a constitutional or common law right to remain anonymous.

In a decision issued after argument before the Court today, Superior Court Judge James R. Ritchie found IAAL's postings "have nothing to do with any public issue or matter of public interest" and the case is not a SLAPP suit. Judge Ritchie also found the motion to treat the case as a SLAPP suit was "frivolous" and that "monetary sanctions are required." The Court imposed sanctions of $3,000 against both IAAL and Attorney Roth. Judge Ritchie also denied IAAL's motion to remain anonymous in the litigation.

Additional information, the Court's latest decision, and a case history are available online at www.FreeAdvice.com/IAAL. IAAL is also subject to a previous court order to appear in person before Judge Ritchie on January 2, 2007 to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court for postings he allegedly made in violation of the preliminary injunction.

Advice Company, which continues to seek the assistance from the Internet community to uncover IAAL's identity, was represented by its lead counsel, Attorney Robert F. Knox of Mill Valley, California, and also by Advocate Law Group PC.

Advice Company and its affiliates have operated the expert witness website www.ExpertPages.com, the consumer lawyer locator www.AttorneyPages.com, and the leading home improvement site www.DoItYourself.com since 1995.