In extremely contentious litigation between Amway Corp. and the Procter & Gamble Company, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the posting of legal complaints containing allegedly defamatory statements on an Internet Web site did not create liability under the circumstances presented.
As noted by the trial court, this particular case represented the third lawsuit in what was described as “a long history of corporate warfare between Amway and P&G.” Amway originally filed this lawsuit against P&G, alleging tortious interference with business relations, after the creator and editor of an anti-Amway Web site titled “Amway: The Untold Story,” published a complaint filed by P&G which had alleged that Amway, among other things, operated an illegal pyramid scheme.
