[bootlegga]

Quote:

MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - The owner of a large southwest Alabama car dealership derided as "Taliban Toyota" by a competitor has been awarded $7.5 million in damages after a jury trial for his slander claim.

Iranian-born Shawn Esfahani, owner of Eastern Shore Toyota in Daphne, Alabama, sought $28 million in compensatory and punitive damages from Bob Tyler Toyota, claiming employees at that Pensacola, Florida-based dealership falsely portrayed him as an Islamist militant to customers.

"The feeling I received in the courtroom for the truth to come out was worth a lot more than any money anybody can give me," Esfahani told Reuters on Tuesday.

Esfahani's lawsuit said that Bob Tyler sales manager Fred Kenner told at least one couple considering buying from Eastern Shore Toyota in 2009 that Esfahani was of Middle Eastern descent and was "helping fund the insurgents there and is also laundering money for them."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/owner-car-deal ... 02989.html

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Ooops.

[jeff744]

No pity for the loser of this case.

[r_p]

i think if bob tyler told me that story, i'd have to wonder why he hadn't taken the info straight to homeland security... maybe a little too tied up with banjo pickin' and daughter humpin' that day?