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Law Firm’s Questionable Tactics Threaten Media Freedom

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Kelly Warner Legal Fraud

Despite being called out for its previous questionable attempts at Internet censorship, an Arizona law firm has moved on from the small fries and now has its sights on deindexing a few bigger fish from Google: ABC, Daily Mail, BarStool Sports, AVVO, and Fox News to name a few.

A recent court filing shows Scottsdale’s Kelly/Warner Law Firm is involved in what appears to be another fraudulent internet defamation case, one that attempts to de-index web content and censor the Internet (See the full fake lawsuit filing here). Though previous cases were filed on behalf of shady characters looking to remove websites such as RipOffReport from Google, Kelly/Warner’s latest was filed on behalf of a former NFL cheerleader—and a pretty famous one at that.

The Fall from Grace

Megan Welter rose to fame in 2013 when she was named an Arizona Cardinals Cheerleader. An Iraq war veteran and long-time Army reservist, Welter’s story was a rare one, and the public took interest almost immediately.

But a few weeks and a domestic violence call later, Welter’s star fell. On her birthday in August 2013, Welter called the Scottsdale police to the home she shared with then-boyfriend Ryan McMahon, a professional fighter. Hours later, it was Welter who left in handcuffs, when McMahon showed police a cell phone video of her scratching, hitting and yelling at him over a text message.

Both local and national media covered Welter’s arrest and subsequent fall from fame heavily in the weeks following the incident, and now, Welter has retained Kelly/Warner to get that media coverage wiped from the annals of the Internet.

According to the recent court filing we received, Welter has filed a defamation suit and is seeking injunction against dozens of major media companies and websites, including ABC News, ABC 15, Daily Mail, Fox News, YouTube, Heavy.com, Fox Sports, NY Daily News and more. There are even a number of Twitter updates, Reddit threads and Pinterest pins named in the filing.

The filing reads, “Defendants posted voluminous false, damaging, misleading and defamatory statements about Plaintiff on the Internet, located at numerous web links, and making a variety of untrue and damaging statements and implications aimed at Plaintiff.”

Here's are some the articles the filing tried to remove from Google:

 

In addition to the injunction “compelling Defendants to remove from the Internet all material pertaining to the Plaintiff,” Welter is also seeking general, special and punitive damages.

More interesting than the media outlets Welter’s claim is trying to stifle is the way that Kelly/Warner Law Firm attempted to remove the links from Google:

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