Carla Virga over Terminix Free Speech6/5/2000; 7:11:32 AM April 3, 2000: Carla Virga, previously talked about March 13th, has won another victory in her fight against Terminix, according to Overlawyered.com (look for the 'March 31-April 2 -- Terminix vs. consumer critic's website' entry; I don't know how to permanently link to it).

Pest control company Terminix retreats from courtroom efforts to swat dissatisfied consumer Carla Virga, who put up a website to publicize her unhappiness with its services. After its defamation suit was dismissed, the company tried again on the theory that Ms. Virga was infringing its rights by using the word Terminix itself in "metatags" directed at search engine listings. This succeeded in infuriating many in the Web community, and now the company has backed off that second action as well.