So I rarely resort to clickbait tactics, but any time you can use the phrase “underwear model” in the title of a legal blog you just have to cash in.
And the plaintiff’s status as a former underwear model does hold some relevance here–apparently his former employer–and now fiercest competitor–used to try to humiliate the guy with constant and public references to his nuder days of yore according to a new complaint:
Jacobson often encouraged co-workers and prospective clients to search for pictures of Gladstone online from his prior underwear modeling career.
Jacobson forced Gladstone to send a giant cardboard cutout of Gladstone modeling underwear to a gay, male physician prospect.
Jacobson made highly offensive and sexually taunting remarks to and about Gladstone in the office and in sales meetings.
Salacious. But what does it have to do with the TCPA?
Well this colorful backdrop serves as the setting for a new lawsuit filed to challenge the filing of yet another lawsuit–this one a TCPA class action–that was allegedly brought by a competitor solely to try to put a company out of business.
So what’s going on here?
Its a classic tale really–allegedly. A star pupil in a business becomes so successful that he is a threat to management. Management seeks to humble the standout performer. Ultimately the performer grows weary of the abuse and sets on on his own aiming to compete doing things his own way. Management of the former employer grows furious...
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