Brooklyn lawyer Marina Tylo sues blogger for reporting that she was sued for malpractice

Marina Tylo has filed a defamation suit against blogger Andrew Bluestone at the New York Attorney Malpractice Blog, for reporting in September of last year that she was sued for malpractice. In her complaint, provided here by Simple Justice, she asks for the sum of $10,000,000.00 in damages and a retraction.

The offending text she cites in her complaint is:

Here is the full text cite for a legal malpractice case in which plaintiff's attorney served a summons before buying the index number. Khlevner v. Tylo, 10733/07,

which is text that prefaces language from the court's decision in her case. A copy of the webpage is attached as "Exhibit A." The lawsuit alleges that the above text constitutes "libel, gross negligence, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, [and] tortious interference with prospective contractual relations."

As Simple Justice points out, this ridiculous effort by Tylo to silence a blogger will end up earning her much more bad press than the one small post on Bluestone's malpractice blog did:

And if the rest of the blawgosphere feels similarly, then let's make sure that those inclined to try to use the courts to shut blawgers down and keep lawyers' screw-up as their dirty little secret, learn that such vapid efforts to undermine speech in the blawgosphere is going to backfire on them. Perhaps Tylo will regret her decision to try to silence Bluestone as her misbegotten effort spreads across the internet.

Mike at Crime and Federalism says:

Is that how someone protects her reputation? By suing a law blogger? Really? Who advised Ms. Tylo that filing the lawsuit was a good idea? She should sue her lawyer for malpractice.
Oh, wait. According to the summons that Mr. Greenfield helpfully posted, Ms. Tylo filed the lawsuit pro se, that is, on her own behalf. She's literally her own lawyer.

I see that a google search for "Marina Tylo" brings up activerain real estate network first (which I hope is a bad joke, as it shows a terribly unprofessional profile filled with typos and bad grammer), followed by many blawgs with commentary on her lawsuit. Several begin with "Brooklyn lawyer Marina Tylo deserves a good spanking."