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[ARKLAND]

Im from Kansas- A busness owner of Cafe That I owe a Bill to from chargeding meals/I do owe this bill/and I have been trying to contact the owner for a month/no luck/I write checks in her cafe so my telephone number is on all my checks/ have received NO contact from her addressing my bill!!!! On April 1st-2012 /The waitress advised me did you know you have a bill pinned to the bullintin board in the Hallway of this cafe/ It was a Ticket WITH MY NAME ON IT/AND THE AMOUNT I OWED/ It had been there 2 days already/with out my knowlege of it even being there!!!!! EVERY PERSON THAT CAME THRU the doors of that cafe probably did read that ticket/ for two days/there are 100's of people that walk in and out of that cafe. I feel assulted,my name desacreated in front of all my friends & relatives/ I am past angry!!!!!! What would be the proper legal action I schould take??  And what LAW!!!!?????? ARKLAND

[Tax_Counsel]

Your post indicated that the information on the the ticket posted was true. If that's correct, there is no legal action to take against the cafe or it's owner. While it may be embarrassing that everyone sees it, no law prohibits the owner from posting true information. You'd only have a claim for defamation if the posting contained false facts about you. Even then, you may only recover from most defamation claims the financial harm you suffered from the defamatory statement. Mere embarrassment gets you nothing in damages.

You knew about the bill you owed for about a month before this post went up. You know the address of the cafe. So why didn't you just send a check? Doing that now might get the posting removed.

[pg1067]

In any future posts, please make an effort to use something that resembles proper capitalization and punctuation.  Doing so will make it easier for others to read and understand what you write.

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What would be the proper legal action I schould take?

[ARKLAND]

Thank you!!!! You are absolutely right about pay the bill/and embarrassed/ When your on a fixed income/SS lets see how that works for you???

[pg1067]

The nature of your personal financial situation is not relevant to the legal issue about which you asked (nor is my personal situation).

[ARKLAND]

Ref: cafe owner/and the bill I did owe??????  Bill was paid in full!!!!!! And the mother of the cafe leasee was running me down laughing thinkinging it was funny / ref the previous bill I owed/ (paid in full) who is libial now?? Leasee,Owner,or mother of Leesee?? or all three?? I have more then one witnesses to the fact/ of running (myself down-ref the bill I did owe)mother is a employee of leesee,owner just leese's building to leesee. but owner is aware of the insendent about me!!!!!!!!

Seem's the longer I do nothing about it the bigger it becomes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What legal terms do I have to lean on now??? ARKLAND in Kansas

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[pg1067]

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Ref: cafe owner/and the bill I did owe?