{"id":68162,"date":"2014-10-22T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/?p=68162"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:32:07","slug":"lhr-obtains-temporary-injunction-due-to-chantage-unlawful-threat-of-press-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/magazine-en\/lhr-obtains-temporary-injunction-due-to-chantage-unlawful-threat-of-press-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"LHR obtains temporary injunction due to Chantage (unlawful threat of press publication)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mafia.jpg\" alt=\"mafia\" width=\"332\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mafia.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mafia-90x63.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>At the request of Lampmann, Haberkamm &amp; Rosenbaum Rechtsanw\u00e4lte (LHR), the Regional Court of T\u00fcbingen (LG T\u00fcbingen, Beschluss v. 17.10.2014, Az. <a href=\"https:\/\/dejure.org\/dienste\/vernetzung\/rechtsprechung?Text=4%20O%20293\/14\" title=\"4 O 293\/14 (3 zugeordnete Entscheidungen)\">4 O 293\/14<\/a>) issued a temporary injunction prohibiting a law firm from attempting to persuade our clients to waive payment claims by threatening to disclose certain information from a court case to consumer protection\/commercial media.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of non-compliance, a fine of up to \u20ac 250,000 or up to six months&#8217; imprisonment may be imposed.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is not legally binding.<\/p>\n<p>After several disputes before various courts between our clients and an \u201cinvestor protection law firm\u201d in relation to inadmissible client advertising were settled by the Hamburg Regional Court, the investor protection lawyers subsequently attempted to persuade our clients to waive the claims for reimbursement of costs agreed there by threatening to pass on certain contents of preliminary injunction proceedings to various qualified press organs.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Court of T\u00fcbingen agreed with our client that this constituted an unlawful threat that interfered with our client&#8217;s right to privacy or its established and exercised business operations and must therefore be refrained from.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Arno Lampmann from the law firm LHR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe decision of the Regional Court of T\u00fcbingen is to be welcomed without reservation. While the renegotiation of a comprehensive and final overall settlement, irrespective of the legal situation, already reveals bad style, such \u201cre-carding\u201d then becomes unlawful coercion or even blackmail if it is to be backed up with the threat of turning to the press in the event of refusal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(la)<\/p>\n<p>(Bild: <span class=\"conten-view-title-block\"><span id=\"content-view-title-contributor\" class=\"trunc-string\" title=\"\u00a9 olly\">mafia talk \u00a9 dreamerve <\/span><\/span>\u2013 Fotolia.com)<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the request of Lampmann, Haberkamm &amp; Rosenbaum Rechtsanw\u00e4lte (LHR), the Regional Court of T\u00fcbingen (LG T\u00fcbingen, Beschluss v. 17.10.2014, Az. 4 O 293\/14) issued a temporary injunction prohibiting a law firm from attempting to persuade our clients to waive payment claims by threatening to disclose certain information from a court case to consumer protection\/commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19449,19453,19474],"tags":[20316,20333,20550],"class_list":["post-68162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-en","category-media-law-personal-rights","category-press-releases","tag-interim-injunction","tag-investor-protection-law-firm","tag-chantage-en"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68163,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68162\/revisions\/68163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}