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Complaint Review: EZSmallClaim.com - San Diego California

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EZSmallClaim.com? More like EZRipOff.com. I was pretty lucky to have caught on to these guys, well, within the first few days anyway. I filed my case on their site and I had questions and they had a chat button. Well, during the chat something just did n Bait and switch, fraud San Diego California

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: FOX NEWS OVER THIS STORY

*Consumer Comment: JUSTICE IS FINALLY SERVED

*Consumer Comment: Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim

*Consumer Comment: THEY TOOK MY MONEY TOO

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EDITOR'S NOTE -- As most Ripoff Report users know, we offer a forum for speech.  As a general rule we do not get involved in disputes over the accuracy of reports.  However, in certain rare cases we will make an exception to help set the record straight for our readers. 

The story about this post below is fairly complicated.  Rather than giving you the entire history, here's what you need to know -- this report appears to be a complaint about "EZ Small Claim" (note there is no letter 's' at the end).  

Ripoff Report has been contacted by the owner of a business with a very similar name -- "EZ Small ClaimS" (notice the letter 's' at the end).  The owner of EZ Small Claims has provided us with court records showing that she sued EZ Small Claim (no s) for trademark infringement and won.  Based on winning this lawsuit, EZ Small Claims was awarded various relief, including ownership of the website mentioned in this report -- ezsmallclaim.com.  As far as we know, the defendant (EZ Small Claim) is no longer in business. 

Although EZ Small Claims now owns ezsmallclaim.com, it's important to understand that this complaint is NOT about the current owner of that website.  It's about the previous owner (the one who was sued for trademark infringement and lost).  Got that? 

In conclusion, Ripoff Report has decided NOT to remove this report, because it IS a valid complaint.  However, the complaint is NOT about the current owner of the company....it's about a completely different previous owner.  Please keep this in mind as you review the report below. 

Now on to the original report.....

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 EZSmallClaim.com? More like EZRipOff.com. I was pretty lucky to have caught on to these guys, well, within the first few days anyway. I filed my case on their site and I had questions and they had a chat button. Well, during the chat something just did not seem right, I just could not place it. Well, a few days went bye and I decided to email them, their response was that their paralegal was working on my case. A few days went bye and I received 5 emails from them all with a .pdf attached. Now I know enough about technology to know that all of these docs could have been sent in 1 email with 1 .pdf. The instructions they gave me were to print these docs and mail them to them. I sent them an email telling them that I did not have access to a printer. While I waited to hear from them I read the .pdf's and noticed quite a few errors. For instance, I had asked in my filing for the loss of money to be returned, emotional distress and for punitive damages, instead of punitive damages they put breach of contract. I decided that I did not want to wait for an email reply so I decided to to relook them up on Google and call them, the web address that popped up was EZSmallClaimS not seeing the difference in names as the so called company did not have an S at the end of its name. So I called EZSmallClaims.net and this really nice lady answered and I told her what was going on, and she said to me "are you sitting down?" She then informed me of the other companies bait and switch scam. This company had apparently ghosted this other company the real EZSmallClaims.net and set up a whole different site except they called themselves EZSmallClaim.com, if you notice the only thing in the name that's different is the S is missing, and the domain is different, .net .com, and from research and from what I am dealing with now, they take your money and do not do the work. Also, the real address is EZSmallClaims.net or EZ-SmallClaims.com the bogus address is just EZSmallClaim.com can you see just how easy it is to confuse the two?

I also checked their name out on the Secretary of States website at http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ I choose LLC then the typed in the name of the bogus company and it pops up SOS removed which means that the Secretary of State has some sort of action against this bogus organization. Funny, I just now looked at my inbox and in it is an email from them, it was written with broken English, written completely unprofessionally, full of threats and sent last evening a Saturday just after 7pm. I do not know to many companies like legal services that work into the evening on a weekend. To date I have demanded a return of my $250.00 and I have notified my credit card of the fraud. The nice lady at the REAL EZSmallClaimS has typed up and mailed out a letter to show my credit card company. I have also done numerous screen shots to show that they are fraudulent. Man, you should all see this email from them it really is hilarious, they are threatening me with legal action for fraud, huh? Like I said hilarious, what people will not do to scam others.

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#5 REBUTTAL Owner of company

FOX NEWS OVER THIS STORY

AUTHOR: SK Strong - (USA)

POSTED: Friday, August 19, 2016

I am the owner of EZ Small Claims , not to be confused with the bad reports of EZ Small Claim ( no S on claims ) if you read the editors note he explains how a company stole our name and we had to shut them down with a federal court order! Fox News LA came to interview me about this nightmare ordeal ! please read our press release on our website and check out the Fox News link below or on our website under press release  ! Rip off report was nice enough to put a note explaining the mass confusion of this case of a bait and switch scam that is happening to many internet businesses , putting them out of business. We fought back for our reputation ! I want to thank ripoff report for helping set the record straight and to Fox News for covering this story !

SK Strong  

EZ Small Claims 

Top Small Claims Specialist In California 

http://www.foxla.com/news/193242812-video\

 

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JUSTICE IS FINALLY SERVED

AUTHOR: R. Strong - (USA)

POSTED: Thursday, July 21, 2016

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3/14/2016

SK Strong/ Lester Dinerstein
EZ Small Claims
(909) 986-0883
SK@EZ-SMALLCLAIMS.NET
www.ezsmallclaims.net
(909) 986-0883

Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim
Justice Is Finally Served When It Comes To Trademark Infringement

Ontario, California : It has been a long battle taking down the bad guys but justice has been served in the case of shutting down EZSmallClaim.Com AKA EZ Small Claim.
 Hundreds of consumers were ripped off by the company based near San Diego and in Pasadena known as EZ Small Claim. EZ Small Claim was not offering true legal services in the form of small claims legal document preparation, court filing and process serving. Our company, EZ Small Claims, (Note the S at the end of claims) is a division of Yale Attorney Service which has been in business since February 4, 1984 was getting the blame for the fraudulent company known as EZ Small Claim. EZ Small Claim was scamming the public by acting as if they were offering true legal services but fooling the consumers and tricking them by offering a 24 hour money back guarantee! They would upload a draft copy in their “My Case portal system” and ask if everything looked good. They said that they would file it with the court. Being a customer you would think everything was legit until a month or two passed and you would hear nothing from the courts. You would repeatedly call their office and email the company and get no response. Many customers were told your case worker just stepped out, by the time the consumer realized something was going on months had passed by and they would not issue a refund. Some of these clients would go online and search for another phone number to find a corporate office location or another phone number where someone would pick up the phone to get answers. This is how they found the real and original company EZ Small Claims based in California.

The only difference with the names is the S at the end of the word claims making it plural but the original company EZ Small Claims’ customer service and ongoing support is truly one of the best in the Industry! A client named David, who was one of the victims documented in the lawsuit, stated “The genuine company is truly awesome they went above and beyond to help me collect my money back from the fraudulent company and help me with my small claims court case to actually get filed.” Thanks to S.K., Jeffery and Lester I won my case, I am grateful I found them but I’m sure there are thousands more victims out there that didn’t realize what was going on. I hope they come forward that way if it’s not too late to get their money back. SK was sure great about writing a letter to my credit card company to help me at no added cost now that’s customer service! Family own businesses are hard to find now a day’s; sadly many of them are gone and replaced with corporations”.

Another client who was a victim stated “they kept wanted more money and they spoke in broken English and got hostile towards me when I asked for my money back, they threatened to sue me”. Mr. Flowers stated. ‘I sent all of the emails over to the genuine company to help their case so justice could be served against them”.

On October 23, 2015; Lester Dinerstein DBA Yale Attorney Service doing business as EZ Small Claims filed a lawsuit against Yeghsapet Mariam Zartarain AKA Elizabeth Zartarian and her company, EZSMALLCLAIM.COM LLC for (1) Violation of the Lanham Act 15 U.S.C. 1125 (a), (2) Unfair business practices under California business and professions code 17200 (“UCL”) and 17500 (“FAL”) (3) Common law trademark infringement and (4) Tortuous interference with prospective economic relations Dkt 1 at 1.

On March 3, 2016 the honorable Stephen V. Wilson, U.S. District Judge granted the plaintiff’s motion for default against EZ Small Claim, the judge issued a court order to shut down their websites down and from ever using the name EZ Small Claim or EZ Small Claims again. The websites were transfer over to EZ Small Claims a division of Yale Attorney Service.

The public can now rest easy and not have to worry about being ripped off as the company known as EZ Small Claim websites are finally in the hands of the original Company owned by Yale Attorney Service. When we spoke to the owners daughter SK Strong she said “Justice was finally served, I took this personally as I care about all my clients and when we were getting calls daily from customers who were ripped off thinking it was us, screaming at us that we took their money when we didn’t. The public didn’t understand how this was even happening; they almost didn’t believe us because they copied the look of our website to a tee! It was so upsetting because we work so hard to build a good reputation, I work long hours to handle all our clients’ needs at times and for them to just steal our name and say they were our company when they were not angered me. Sk went on to say, for it to just be taken away like that was truly unfair”. When asking Ms. Strong, if she was relived it was over; her response was “YES!” I thank god for my awesome attorney Mrs. Dwight. I knew when I got into a confrontation with Ms.Zartarian in the Fontana Superior Court house when this first started and we realized that this was clearly not a small claims case it was much bigger with more at stake. I had no choice but to take matters into my own hands and find the best attorney out there to fight for our name, our rights and good will! I told Ms.Zartarian I will shut her down one way or another. “You will not continue to use my families company’s good name and ruin it and scam the public. I will put a stop to it and you”. Ms. Strong stated we had a huge fight on our hands and she needed the best attorney out there. She knew her attorney at the time was not experienced enough and she had to find the best copyright and trademark infringement attorney for Intellectual Property Law and Ms. Dwight was it! “I was very confidant she would get the job done and it was a pleasure working with her”. “She cares about her clients and is an aggressive attorney that is not going to tip toe around anything , when someone steals your companies name and portrays themselves as you and take the public’s money and consumers assume it’s you it’s a very stressful situation that I am thankful is over!”

When asking Ms. Strong what if people down the road read the rip-off reports on EZ Small Claim and think it’s you? She stated “That is why we are going to make a public statement and post a copy of the court order online everywhere and I will contact rip-off report customer support but I don’t know if in this case they will see we will be suffering prejudice if they are not removed! I’m hoping they will understand like Go Daddy, Facebook and Instagram were and take a federal court order seriously we shall see! I am thankful this nightmare is over and got a court order and judgment against her and the company!” We finally have ownership of the websites and now the public will not be rip off in our name anymore.

  • The court GRANTS permanent injunction relief prohibiting defendants from infringing Plaintiff’s mark.

  • 1) Using the trademark and trade name “EZ Small Claim” or “EZ Small Claims” in any and all advertising, promotional and website material and URLs; 2) Otherwise infringing Plaintiff trademark or; 3) Causing like hood of confusion, deception, or mistake as to the source, nature, or quality of Defendant’s services.

  • The court grants default judgment as to the plaintiff’s motion for default judgment in part. Judgment is ENTERED in favor of plaintiff, Specifically

  • The court GRANTS default judgment as to Plaintiff’s Lanham Act and tortuous interference with prospective economic advantage claims.

  • The court GRANTS Plaintiff’s requested injunctive relief with respect to the use of the Mark as stated above.

  • The Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for $30,000 in damages.

  • The Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for $10,000 in punitive.

  • The Court Awards Plaintiff $999.50 in cost and $6,207.50 in Attorney Fees.

     

    EZ Small Claims is a division of Yale Attorney Service that Mr.Dinerstein started Yale Attorney Service in February 1984. He started EZ Small Claims in 2005 when he had his office in the city of Upland, California. EZ Small Claims offers legal services in the form of Legal document preparation of small claims lawsuit, filing legal documents at the Superior Courts, Service of Process, Document Control, Judgment Recovery, Bank Levies, Abstract of Judgment, Wage Garnishments, Filing documents at the county recorder, Messenger Service, Records retrieval, Subpoena Preparation, Legal Research, E-Filing, Fax Filing, Courier Services, 3-30-60 Day notices, and more. This makes them one of the leading attorney services in the inland empire. EZ Small Claims a division of Yale Attorney Service just celebrated their 32 year anniversary in the attorney service business on February 4, 2016. You can visit their website at: ezsmallclaims.net find them on Facebook at facebook.com/ezsmallclaims

    The public can rest assure that they don’t have to be confused anymore when it comes to who the real EZ Small Claims is now.

    If you were a victim of EZ Small Claim please reach out to the original EZ Small Claims and ask for SK Strong and she be glad to help you. They will offer to show you the judgment and court order and federal lawsuit to shut them down. They will also do whatever they can to help you get your money back and file your small claims case.

    On other reports, The EDITOR PUT A NOTE: We are hoping they will add it to these reports and help us set the record straight

     

    EDITOR'S NOTE -- As most Rip-off Report users know, we offer a forum for speech.  As a general rule we do not get involved in disputes over the accuracy of reports.  However, in certain rare cases we will make an exception to help set the record straight for our readers. 

The story about this post below is fairly complicated.  Rather than giving you the entire history, here's what you need to know -- this report appears to be a complaint about "EZ Small Claim" (note there is no letter’s’ at the end).  

 

Ripoff Report has been contacted by the owner of a business with a very similar name -- "EZ Small ClaimS" (notice the letter’s’ at the end).  The owner of EZ Small Claims has provided us with court records showing that she sued EZ Small Claim (no s) for trademark infringement and won. Based on winning this lawsuit, EZ Small Claims was awarded various relief, including ownership of the website mentioned in this report -- ezsmallclaim.com.  As far as we know, the defendant (EZ Small Claim) is no longer in business. 

 

Although EZ Small Claims now owns ezsmallclaim.com, it's important to understand that this complaint is NOT about the current owner of that website.  It's about the previous owner (the one who was sued for trademark infringement and lost).  Got that? 

 

In conclusion, Ripoff Report has decided NOT to remove this report, because it IS a valid complaint.  However, the complaint is NOT about the current owner of the company....it's about a completely different previous owner.  Please keep this in mind as you review the report below. 

 

Now on to the original report.....

 

 

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#3 Consumer Comment

Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim

AUTHOR: SK Strong - (USA)

POSTED: Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3/14/2016

SK Strong/ Lester Dinerstein
EZ Small Claims
(909) 986-0883
SK@EZ-SMALLCLAIMS.NET
www.ezsmallclaims.net
(909) 986-0883

Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim
Justice Is Finally Served When It Comes To Trademark Infringement

Ontario, California : It has been a long battle taking down the bad guys but justice has been served in the case of shutting down EZSmallClaim.Com AKA EZ Small Claim.
 Hundreds of consumers were ripped off by the company based near San Diego and in Pasadena known as EZ Small Claim. EZ Small Claim was not offering true legal services in the form of small claims legal document preparation, court filing and process serving. Our company, EZ Small Claims, is a division of Yale Attorney Service which has been in business since February 4, 1984 was getting the blame for the fraudulent company known as EZ Small Claim. EZ Small Claim was scamming the public by acting as if they were offering true legal services but fooling the consumers and tricking them by offering a 24 hour money back guarantee! They would upload a draft copy in their “MyCase portal system” and ask if everything looked good. They said that they would file it with the court. Being a customer you would think everything was legit until a month or two passed and you would hear nothing from the courts. You would repeatedly call their office and email the company and get no response. Many customers were told your case worker just stepped out, by the time the consumer realized something was going on months had passed by and they would not issue a refund. some of these clients would go online and search for another phone number to find a corporate office location or another phone number where someone would pick up the phone to get answers. This is how they found the real and original company EZ Small Claims based in California.

The only difference with the names is the S at the end of the word claims making it plural but the original company EZ Small Claims’ customer service and ongoing support is truly one of the best in the Industry! A client named David, who was one of the victims documented in the lawsuit, stated “The genuine company is truly awesome they went above and beyond to help me collect my money back from the fraudulent company and help me with my small claims court case to actually get filed.” Thanks to S.K., Jeffery and Lester I won my case, I am grateful I found them but I’m sure there are thousands more victims out there that didn’t realize what was going on. I hope they come forward that way if it’s not too late to get their money back . SK was sure great about writing a letter to my credit card company to help me at no added cost now that’s customer service! Family own business’s are hard to find now a day’s; sadly many of them are gone and replaced with corporations”.

Another client who was a victim stated “they kept wanted more money and they spoke in broken English and got hostile towards me when I asked for my money back, they threatened to sue me”. Mr. Flowers stated. ‘I sent all of the emails over to the genuine company to help their case so justice could be served against them”.

On October 23, 2015; Lester Dinerstein DBA Yale Attorney Service doing business as EZ Small Claims filed a lawsuit against Yeghsapet Mariam Zartarain AKA Elizabeth Zartarian and her company, EZSMALLCLAIM.COM LLC for (1) Violation of the Lanham Act 15 U.S.C. 1125 (a), (2) Unfair business practices under California business and professions code 17200 ( “UCL”) and 17500 ( “FAL”) (3) Common law trademark infringement and (4) Tortuous interference with prospective economic relations Dkt 1 at 1.

On March 3, 2016 the honorable Stephen V. Wilson, U.S. District Judge granted the plaintiff’s motion for default against EZ Small Claim, the judge issued a court order to shut down their websites down and from ever using the name EZ Small Claim or EZ Small Claims again. The websites were transfer over to EZ Small Claims a division of Yale Attorney Service.

The public can now rest easy and not have to worry about being ripped off as the company known as EZ Small Claim websites are finally in the hands of the original Company owned by Yale Attorney Service. When we spoke to the owners daughter SK Strong she said “Justice was finally served, I took this personally as I care about all my clients and when we were getting calls daily from customers who were ripped off thinking it was us, screaming at us that we took their money when we didn’t. The public didn’t understand how this was even happening; they almost didn’t believe us because they copied the look of our website to a tee! It was so upsetting because we work so hard to build a good reputation, I work long hours to handle all our clients’ needs at times and for them to just steal our name and say they were our company when they were not angered me. Sk went on to say, for it to just be taken away like that was truly unfair”. When asking Ms Strong, if she was relived it was over; her response was “YES!” I thank god for my awesome attorney Mrs.Dwight. I knew when I got into a confrontation with Ms. Zartarian in the Fontana Superior Court house when this first started and we realized that this was clearly not a small claims case it was much bigger with more at stake. I had no choice but to take matters into my own hands and find the best attorney out there to fight for our name, our rights and good will! I told Ms.Zartarian I will shut her down one way or another. “You will not continue to use my families company’s good name and ruin it and scam the public. I will put a stop to it and you”. Ms.Strong stated we had a huge fight on our hands and she needed the best attorney out there. She knew her attorney at the time was not experienced enough and she had to find the best copyright and trademark infringement attorney for Intellectual Property Law and Ms.Dwight was it! “I was very confidant she would get the job done and it was a pleasure working with her”. “She cares about her clients and is an aggressive attorney that is not going to tip toe around anything , when someone steals your companies name and portrays themselves as you and take the public’s money and consumers assume it’s you it’s a very stressful situation that I am thankful is over!”

When asking Ms Strong what if people down the road read the rip-off reports on EZ Small Claim and think it’s you? She stated “That is why we are going to make a public statement and post a copy of the court order online everywhere and I will contact rip-off report customer support but I don’t know if in this case they will see we will be suffering prejudice if they are not removed! I’m hoping they will understand like Go Daddy, Facebook and Instagram were and take a federal court order seriously we shall see! I am thankful this nightmare is over and got a court order and judgment against her and the company!”

  • The court GRANTS permanent injunction relief prohibiting defendants from infringing Plaintiff’s mark.
  • 1) Using the trademark and trade name “EZ Small Claim” or “EZ Small Claims” in any and all advertising, promotional and website material and URLs; 2) Otherwise infringing Plaintiff trademark or; 3) Causing like hood of confusion, deception, or mistake as to the source, nature, or quality of Defendant’s services.
  • The court grants default judgment as to the plaintiffs motion for default judgment in part. Judgment is ENTERED in favor of plaintiff, Specifically
  • The court GRANTS default judgment as to Plaintiff’s Lanham Act and tortuous interference with prospective economic advantage claims.
  • The court GRANTS Plaintiff’s requested injunctive relief with respect to the use of the Mark as stated above.
  • The Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for $30,000 in damages.
  • The Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for $10,000 in punitive.
  • The Court Awards Plaintiff $999.50 in cost and $6,207.50 in Attorney Fees.

EZ Small Claims is a division of Yale Attorney Service that Mr.Dinerstein started Yale Attorney Service in February 1984. He started EZ Small Claims in 2005 when he had his office in the city of Upland, California. EZ Small Claims offers legal services in the form of Legal document preparation of small claims lawsuit, filing legal documents at the Superior Courts, Service of Process, Document Control, Judgment Recovery, Bank Levies, Abstract of Judgment, Wage Garnishments, Filing documents at the county recorder, Messenger Service, Records retrieval, Subpoena Preparation, Legal Research, E-Filing, Fax Filing, Courier Services, 3-30-60 Day notices, and more. This makes them one of the leading attorney services in the inland empire. EZ Small Claims a division of Yale Attorney Service just celebrated their 32 year anniversary in the attorney service business on February 4, 2016. You can visit their website at: www.ezsmallclaims.net find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ezsmallclaims

The public can rest assure that they don’t have to be confused anymore when it comes to who the real EZ Small Claims is now.

If you were a victim of EZ Small Claim please reach out to the original EZ Small Claims and ask for SK Strong and she be glad to help you. They will offer to show you the judgment and court order and federal lawsuit to shut them down. They will also do whatever they can to help you get your money back and file your small claims case.

 

Editor added this note to the other reports : 

EDITOR'S NOTE -- As most Ripoff Report users know, we offer a forum for speech.  As a general rule we do not get involved in disputes over the accuracy of reports.  However, in certain rare cases we will make an exception to help set the record straight for our readers. 

 

The story about this post below is fairly complicated.  Rather than giving you the entire history, here's what you need to know -- this report appears to be a complaint about "EZ Small Claim" (note there is no letter 's' at the end).  

Ripoff Report has been contacted by the owner of a business with a very similar name -- "EZ Small ClaimS" (notice the letter 's' at the end).  The owner of EZ Small Claims has provided us with court records showing that she sued EZ Small Claim (no s) for trademark infringement and won.  Based on winning this lawsuit, EZ Small Claims was awarded various relief, including ownership of the website mentioned in this report -- ezsmallclaim.com.  As far as we know, the defendant (EZ Small Claim) is no longer in business. 

Although EZ Small Claims now owns ezsmallclaim.com, it's important to understand that this complaint is NOT about the current owner of that website.  It's about the previous owner (the one who was sued for trademark infringement and lost).  Got that? 

In conclusion, Ripoff Report has decided NOT to remove this report, because it IS a valid complaint.  However, the complaint is NOT about the current owner of the company....it's about a completely different previous owner.  Please keep this in mind as you review the report below. 

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#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company

Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim

AUTHOR: SK Strong - (USA)

POSTED: Monday, July 18, 2016

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3/14/2016

SK Strong/ Lester Dinerstein
EZ Small Claims
(909) 986-0883
SK@EZ-SMALLCLAIMS.NET
www.ezsmallclaims.net
(909) 986-0883

Federal Lawsuit Is Finally Over With EZ Small Claims VS EZ Small Claim
Justice Is Finally Served When It Comes To Trademark Infringement

Ontario, California : It has been a long battle taking down the bad guys but justice has been served in the case of shutting down EZSmallClaim.Com AKA EZ Small Claim.
 Hundreds of consumers were ripped off by the company based near San Diego and in Pasadena known as EZ Small Claim. EZ Small Claim was not offering true legal services in the form of small claims legal document preparation, court filing and process serving. Our company, EZ Small Claims, is a division of Yale Attorney Service which has been in business since February 4, 1984 was getting the blame for the fraudulent company known as EZ Small Claim. EZ Small Claim was scamming the public by acting as if they were offering true legal services but fooling the consumers and tricking them by offering a 24 hour money back guarantee! They would upload a draft copy in their “MyCase portal system” and ask if everything looked good. They said that they would file it with the court. Being a customer you would think everything was legit until a month or two passed and you would hear nothing from the courts. You would repeatedly call their office and email the company and get no response. Many customers were told your case worker just stepped out, by the time the consumer realized something was going on months had passed by and they would not issue a refund. some of these clients would go online and search for another phone number to find a corporate office location or another phone number where someone would pick up the phone to get answers. This is how they found the real and original company EZ Small Claims based in California.

The only difference with the names is the S at the end of the word claims making it plural but the original company EZ Small Claims’ customer service and ongoing support is truly one of the best in the Industry! A client named David, who was one of the victims documented in the lawsuit, stated “The genuine company is truly awesome they went above and beyond to help me collect my money back from the fraudulent company and help me with my small claims court case to actually get filed.” Thanks to S.K., Jeffery and Lester I won my case, I am grateful I found them but I’m sure there are thousands more victims out there that didn’t realize what was going on. I hope they come forward that way if it’s not too late to get their money back . SK was sure great about writing a letter to my credit card company to help me at no added cost now that’s customer service! Family own business’s are hard to find now a day’s; sadly many of them are gone and replaced with corporations”.

Another client who was a victim stated “they kept wanted more money and they spoke in broken English and got hostile towards me when I asked for my money back, they threatened to sue me”. Mr. Flowers stated. ‘I sent all of the emails over to the genuine company to help their case so justice could be served against them”.

On October 23, 2015; Lester Dinerstein DBA Yale Attorney Service doing business as EZ Small Claims filed a lawsuit against Yeghsapet Mariam Zartarain AKA Elizabeth Zartarian and her company, EZSMALLCLAIM.COM LLC for (1) Violation of the Lanham Act 15 U.S.C. 1125 (a), (2) Unfair business practices under California business and professions code 17200 ( “UCL”) and 17500 ( “FAL”) (3) Common law trademark infringement and (4) Tortuous interference with prospective economic relations Dkt 1 at 1.

On March 3, 2016 the honorable Stephen V. Wilson, U.S. District Judge granted the plaintiff’s motion for default against EZ Small Claim, the judge issued a court order to shut down their websites down and from ever using the name EZ Small Claim or EZ Small Claims again. The websites were transfer over to EZ Small Claims a division of Yale Attorney Service.

The public can now rest easy and not have to worry about being ripped off as the company known as EZ Small Claim websites are finally in the hands of the original Company owned by Yale Attorney Service. When we spoke to the owners daughter SK Strong she said “Justice was finally served, I took this personally as I care about all my clients and when we were getting calls daily from customers who were ripped off thinking it was us, screaming at us that we took their money when we didn’t. The public didn’t understand how this was even happening; they almost didn’t believe us because they copied the look of our website to a tee! It was so upsetting because we work so hard to build a good reputation, I work long hours to handle all our clients’ needs at times and for them to just steal our name and say they were our company when they were not angered me. Sk went on to say, for it to just be taken away like that was truly unfair”. When asking Ms Strong, if she was relived it was over; her response was “YES!” I thank god for my awesome attorney Mrs.Dwight. I knew when I got into a confrontation with Ms. Zartarian in the Fontana Superior Court house when this first started and we realized that this was clearly not a small claims case it was much bigger with more at stake. I had no choice but to take matters into my own hands and find the best attorney out there to fight for our name, our rights and good will! I told Ms.Zartarian I will shut her down one way or another. “You will not continue to use my families company’s good name and ruin it and scam the public. I will put a stop to it and you”. Ms.Strong stated we had a huge fight on our hands and she needed the best attorney out there. She knew her attorney at the time was not experienced enough and she had to find the best copyright and trademark infringement attorney for Intellectual Property Law and Ms.Dwight was it! “I was very confidant she would get the job done and it was a pleasure working with her”. “She cares about her clients and is an aggressive attorney that is not going to tip toe around anything , when someone steals your companies name and portrays themselves as you and take the public’s money and consumers assume it’s you it’s a very stressful situation that I am thankful is over!”

When asking Ms Strong what if people down the road read the rip-off reports on EZ Small Claim and think it’s you? She stated “That is why we are going to make a public statement and post a copy of the court order online everywhere and I will contact rip-off report customer support but I don’t know if in this case they will see we will be suffering prejudice if they are not removed! I’m hoping they will understand like Go Daddy, Facebook and Instagram were and take a federal court order seriously we shall see! I am thankful this nightmare is over and got a court order and judgment against her and the company!”

  • The court GRANTS permanent injunction relief prohibiting defendants from infringing Plaintiff’s mark.
  • 1) Using the trademark and trade name “EZ Small Claim” or “EZ Small Claims” in any and all advertising, promotional and website material and URLs; 2) Otherwise infringing Plaintiff trademark or; 3) Causing like hood of confusion, deception, or mistake as to the source, nature, or quality of Defendant’s services.
  • The court grants default judgment as to the plaintiffs motion for default judgment in part. Judgment is ENTERED in favor of plaintiff, Specifically
  • The court GRANTS default judgment as to Plaintiff’s Lanham Act and tortuous interference with prospective economic advantage claims.
  • The court GRANTS Plaintiff’s requested injunctive relief with respect to the use of the Mark as stated above.
  • The Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for $30,000 in damages.
  • The Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for $10,000 in punitive.
  • The Court Awards Plaintiff $999.50 in cost and $6,207.50 in Attorney Fees.

EZ Small Claims is a division of Yale Attorney Service that Mr.Dinerstein started Yale Attorney Service in February 1984. He started EZ Small Claims in 2005 when he had his office in the city of Upland, California. EZ Small Claims offers legal services in the form of Legal document preparation of small claims lawsuit, filing legal documents at the Superior Courts, Service of Process, Document Control, Judgment Recovery, Bank Levies, Abstract of Judgment, Wage Garnishments, Filing documents at the county recorder, Messenger Service, Records retrieval, Subpoena Preparation, Legal Research, E-Filing, Fax Filing, Courier Services, 3-30-60 Day notices, and more. This makes them one of the leading attorney services in the inland empire. EZ Small Claims a division of Yale Attorney Service just celebrated their 32 year anniversary in the attorney service business on February 4, 2016. You can visit their website at: www.ezsmallclaims.net find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ezsmallclaims

The public can rest assure that they don’t have to be confused anymore when it comes to who the real EZ Small Claims is now.

If you were a victim of EZ Small Claim please reach out to the original EZ Small Claims and ask for SK Strong and she be glad to help you. They will offer to show you the judgment and court order and federal lawsuit to shut them down. They will also do whatever they can to help you get your money back and file your small claims case.

 

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THEY TOOK MY MONEY TOO

AUTHOR: PissedOffChenel - (USA)

POSTED: Sunday, October 11, 2015

THESE PEOPLE TOOK MY MONEY TOO. 

I had to hire the real company to do the work I won my case thanks to the real company but This company and the real company t is so easy to get them confused I called the real company first and talked with them and then somehow landed on this so called company page and they never filed my small claims or serve it. You lucky you caught it early 

Call the real company they will actually do the work. Not sure if you but the real company is ezsmallclaims.net they have a S and the scam dont. 

 

Just wanted to post so you know they can help you get your money back too call there office and ask for the owner very nice and go above and beyond for you 

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